Journal ISSN 1078-1935 – Page 1439 – Public Intelligence Blog

Again, this is from the productivity world, and infotention has an important core related to attention — not just tools, not just efficiency, but awareness and metacognition — but I know that at least a couple of these tools help me handle my info-flow (I use Slack and Skitch regularly)

12 Tech Tools Productivity Experts Can't Live Without

LIST ONLY: 1. Android Wear . 2. Post-It Plus . 3. Sunrise . 4. USKAPE . 5. Slack . 6. NOISLI . 7. Jamie's To Do . 8. Eternity Time Log . 9. Alarmed . 10. Timeful . 11. Paperkarma . 12. Skitch

2014/10/212014/10/21

Stephen E. Arnold: Big Data 43 Ways

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Big Data Defined 43 Ways

A happy quack to the reader who alerted us to “”What Is Big Data?” The write up consists of 43 definitions provided by luminaries in a variety of fields. If you are in search of enlightenment with regard to Big Data, navigate to the story and dig in.

I found a couple of definitions interesting. Let me highlight Daniel Gillick’s and Hal Varian’s. Both are hooked up with Google, one of the big time big data outfits.

Mr. Gillick says:

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2014/10/21

SchwartzReport: Charter Education, Public Dollars, Ideological Outcomes

04 Education

The Charter School Movement, whatever it might have intended in the beginning, has become something of a racket. Like all privatization movements it is about finding a way to tap the public treasury to make profit. Unfortunately, what it was supposed to deliver has not panned out — improved education for children. Note particularly the involvement of the Koch brothers. For close to a decade they have been exploring ways to use their money to bias the education of children to their worldview on the theory that if they can get them young they can mold them to support the policies they espouse.

How Public Education Dollars Are Flowing Into For-Profit Companies

2014/10/212014/10/21

Berto Jongman: Ebola Update Plus Fleas with Plague & Operation Dark Winter

02 Infectious Disease

Len Babin, CPP at LinkedIn: In 2001 a senior-level bio-terrorist attack simulation was conducted in the US intended to test the response to a covert and widespread smallpox attack. It was designed and delivered by folks from Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies and Analytic Services. One of its main conclusions was that the US could not handle such an outbreak mainly because its resources would be overwhelmed. In the Ebola experience, there was not a resource problem but a readiness problem. If the disease ever did get away, the US (and Canada and Mexico) would be unable to control it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dark_Winter

17 Texas Kindergarteners Contract Ebola After Exposure To Liberian Foreign Exchange Student

It is believed that the children were exposed to the deadly disease after sharing classrooms with a Liberian foreign exchange student. The girl had recently arrived in the states to spend a year with an American family after her own parents were displaced by war. She began vomiting excessively two week after her arrival and tested positive for Ebola shortly before the other children began displaying symptoms themselves.

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2014/10/202014/10/20

Berto Jongman: Accusations of CIA and DoD Funding of Ebola Trials In Africa — Perhaps Also Venezuela?

02 Infectious Disease, 07 Other Atrocities

U.S. is Responsible for the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Liberian Scientist

EXTRACT

The US Department of Defense (DoD) is funding Ebola trials on humans, trials which started just weeks before the Ebola outbreak in Guinea and Sierra Leone. The reports continue and state that the DoD gave a contract worth $140 million dollars to Tekmira, a Canadian pharmaceutical company, to conduct Ebola research. This research work involved injecting and infusing healthy humans with the deadly Ebola virus. Hence, the DoD is listed as a collaborator in a “First in Human” Ebola clinical trial (NCT02041715, which started in January 2014 shortly before an Ebola epidemic was declared in West Africa in March.

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2014/10/20

Graphic: Ebola Racism

02 Infectious Disease, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, Analysis, Balance, Education, Leadership-Integrity, True Cost

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2014/10/202014/10/20

SchwartzReport: A Single Breakthrough That Could Cut Costs on Solar Energy by 25%

05 Energy

A Single Breakthrough That Could Cut Costs on Solar Energy by 25%

Costs on solar are coming down steeply, and now they're about to get even cheaper. A group of chemists at Ohio State University has invented a solar panel that stores energy without an external battery. The self-contained tuner/capacitor panels are already being licensed to industry.

Above, you can see a scanning electron microscope image of the mesh solar panel, whose molecular structure allows oxygen to enter the device and assist in a chemical reaction that powers its onboard battery.

Ohio State University released a statement about the new devices, which they're calling “solar batteries”:

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Howard Rheingold: 12 Informaton Tools