Worth a Look: Nodesphere

Worth A Look

nodesphereNodesphere is an ambitious project designed to connect the data sources that we care most about into a single unified dashboard:

  • Our social networks
  • Our curated collections
  • Our sensemaking information

Nodesphere is a collection of isomorphic visualization-style interfaces. Each interface has particular strengths, so the user can switch between interfaces depending upon the data set and the desired interaction style.

Ty Simpson: India All In On Smart Cities

03 India, Advanced Cyber/IO
Ty Simpson
Ty Simpson

Smart Cities

India’s Smart City vision is part of a larger agenda of creating Industrial Corridors between India’s big metropolitan cities in India.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision “Digital India,” has set an ambitious plan to build 100 smart cities across the country. Modi in his speech quoted, “Cities in the past were built on riverbanks. They are now built along highways. But in the future, they will be built based on availability of optical fiber networks and next-generation infrastructure.”

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Mongoose: Brazil to Sue Samarco Mining for $5.2 Billion Over Dam Burst

03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation
Mongoose
Mongoose

The tide is turning. True cost economics is going to come into full force in the next decade.

Brazil to sue Samarco mining firm for $5.2bn over dam burst

“It is not a natural disaster, it is a disaster prompted by economic activity, but of a magnitude equivalent to those disasters created by forces of nature.” She said about 500km (310 miles) of the Rio Doce – one of Brazil's most important rivers – would have to be dredged in parts, vegetation replanted and fresh water springs cleared.

Gabriele Bammer: Global Research Council Seeks to Focus on Inter-, Multi-, Trans- Cross-, Post-Disciplinary Endeavors

Advanced Cyber/IO
Gabriele Bammer
Gabriele Bammer

Distinguishing between multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinarity – ‘theological’ hair-splitting or essential categorisation?

In a recent special issue of the journal Nature on interdisciplinarity (17 September 2015, p313-315), Rick Rylance   . . .   introduced a current project of the Global Research Council, which is comprised of the heads of science and engineering funding agencies from around the world. The Global Research Council has selected interdisciplinarity as one of its two annual themes for an in-depth report, debate and statement between now and mid-2016.

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