Plus: Top 10 Tech Cars, Business Meeting Etiquette, Flaws in Expertise, Igloo Engineering and MORE.

Sometimes the Internet seems like it’s gotten too big. To help navigate this sea of information, IMT continues its weekly Wednesday feature that spotlights some of the more interesting, informative and amusing resources that might have slipped under your radar — all in bite-sized chunks.

• The Year’s Top 10 Tech Cars | “Although the world’s biggest automakers are determined to bring electrified cars to the masses, their real business — and the world’s business — will continue to revolve around the internal combustion engine for decades to come,” IEEE Spectrum says in this month’s issue of the magazine. “Yet change is afoot, change that heralds the remaking of the invention that first began to put the world on wheels about 120 years ago,” according to the engineering publication’s “Top 10 Tech Cars 2012″ list.
• Why Experts Fail to Solve Big Problems | Why do some leading experts often fail to find solutions to emerging problems in their field? In a piece for Fast Company’s Co.Exist, serial entrepreneur Naveen Jain outlines his view that expertise can cause thinking to become entrenched, so that experts compare new challenges with older ones instead of finding creative or innovative approaches to the subject. The answer? Turn to intelligent outsiders for a fresh perspective.
• Are Computers Creating a Worker-less Economy? | The digital revolution is producing billions of dollars in wealth, but this doesn’t translate into more jobs. The Atlantic explains how the technological boom is creating a “second economy,” in which many services – and the workers associated with them – are being replaced by computer systems. “In the past, every million-dollar increase in economic output generated on the order of 10 jobs. In the future, in the productive Second Economy, it may generate only one or two. ”
• Einstein’s Letter to a Girl Who Wanted to Be a Scientist | In 1946, Albert Einstein received a message from a young scientifically inclined South African girl named Tyfanny, with whom the prominent physicist exchanged several letters. In her previous writings, however, Tyfanny had failed to include a detail about herself that she felt needed to be brought to light: that she was a girl and hoped Einstein would not think any less of her for it. From the book Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein’s Letters to and from Children, Brain Pickings excerpts Tyfanny’s letter and Einstein’s response – whose message to the girl is “as relevant now as it was in 1946,” science and sci-fi blog io9 notes.
• 8 Meeting Etiquette Don’ts | Displaying poor business meeting etiquette can make it seem like you don’t value your colleagues’ time and hurt your chances of accomplishing anything productive. Inc.com offers a list of things you shouldn’t do at a meeting if you hope to make it an effective one, such as not answering your phone unless it’s an emergency, avoiding side conversations with neighbors and not taking credit for what someone else said by repeating it later on.
• Arctic Engineering: Secrets to Igloo Construction | Using only ice and snow as building materials, the Intuit managed to construct entire towns and communities. Igloo architecture is surprisingly sophisticated, relying on simple but elegant methods of building a stable and highly useful home. A recent Popular Mechanics feature explains how one would build an igloo today armed with only a machete and some engineering know-how.
• Executive Compensations Compared | Based on figures from the latest IRS information available as of March 30, 2012, and which cover calendar years 2009-2010, National Journal has created an amoeba-looking graphic that shows total compensation packages for 558 chief executives of “trade associations, labor unions, interest groups, think tanks and other nonprofits.” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is the large yellow bubble there at the top, whose compensation package is more than $11.5 million. (Click the link above and hover over the bubbles.)

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