The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Did Tesla Just Start an Energy Revolution?
…nothing less than an entire remaking of the global energy infrastructure, one that would render fossil fuels and all their ill impacts obsolete. All the world’s energy needs – electricity, transport, heating – could be met through a combination of renewable energy and 2 billion 1-megawatt-hour Powerpacks, Musk said.
We believe life is carbon-oxygen based with phosphorus playing an important role. Well not necessarily. Like this recent discovery there may be others yet to be made that will take us by surprise…
NASA Discovers New Life Form, Could Revolutionize Green Energy
Back in the early 70s two friends of mine, Peter Tompkins and Chris Bird, wrote first and article for Harpers and, then, a book The Secret Life of Plants proposing that plants have a measure of consciousness. It caused a fire storm in science, but it changed the popular gestalt. Science is catching up. Here is some fascinating new research demonstrating plant consciousness and memory. This is also another step in the trend of discovery about the matrix of life in which we live, and the unity of consciousness in which spacetime is grounded.
You’re underestimating your plants: The strange and surprising world of intelligent flora
Humanitarian UAV Missions in Nepal: Early Observations
Phi Beta Iota: Worth a full read. We are reminded of DARPA's STRONG ANGEL and note with interest that the Internet being down in Nepal makes a lot of the UAV collection irrelevant — sort of like NSA's global collection that is not processed and 99% of “big data” not being processed (per Mary Meeker). The lack of bandwidth, lack of processing, and lack of open source sense-making tools continue “The Big Disconnect.”
Robin Good's insight:
At the recent International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, Jeff Jarvis, Professor of Journalism at CUNY, gave a keynote speech that provides valuable insight and advice as to where the future of news and journalism are headed.
Jeff Jarvis' Key 15 Takeaways on the Future of Journalism:
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This trend is picking up momentum very quickly. Here is the latest. This is what Ronlyn and I are going to do in about two years from now when these technologies have matured a bit more. It is a new world. Click through to see the very helpful graphs.
SolarCity will incorporate Tesla Powerwall batteries in its ‘turnkey' solar systems
Osservatorio Strategico Outlook 2015 (Centre for High Defence Studies, Military Centre for Strategic Studies, Republic of Italy)
Part I: Global Outlook
Part II: Regional Analysis (Middle East; Afghan Theater; Balkan-Dnubian Region and Turkey; Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; India and the Indian Ocean; China; Asia-Pacific; Latin America)
Part III: Sectorial Analysis (European Defense Initiatives, Nato and Transatlantic relations)
PDF (140 Pages): IT MoD CeMiSS Global Outlook 2015
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