Event: 15 April DC Free Open Source, Open Standards, Open Minds

Feb. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) will hold a free conference, Open Source, Open Standards, Open Minds, on Friday, April 15, 2016, at the FHI 360 Conference Center in Washington, DC. The event is intended to explore open source and its impact on the standards community and beyond. It will be …

Open Mind: Divide and Conquer with Misinformation — Heal and Unite with Truth

Divide and Conquer I have not posted for a while because, honestly, it has gotten so difficult to differentiate between truth and disinformation (for me at least). One noted blog author that I trust, claims that only 6% of the information found on mainstream media is true, and only about 30% found on the internet. …

Open Mind: Teen Invention to Skim Plastic Only From Oceans — Are We Ready to Harvest Profit from Second Generation of Fossil Fuel Garbage? + Plastic Trash RECAP

Teen Says His Invention Will Save the World’s Oceans Nineteen-year-old Boyan Slat wants to change the world by making the oceans a lot less trashy. The Dutch teenager says he has invented a device that can remove 20 billion tons of plastic trash from the world’s oceans, according to a Daily Mail report. The story …