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Berto Jongman: Industrial Toxins — and Wireless — Frying the Human Brain
07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government
Two stories, same victim — humans.
Six Neurotoxic Industrial Chemicals Linked to Rise In Brain Disorders
“…children worldwide are being exposed to unrecognised toxic chemicals that are silently eroding intelligence, disrupting behaviours, truncating future achievements, and damaging societies…”
INVISIBLE THREAT: Wireless Radiation Linked to Cancer and other Illness
The longtime president of Microsoft Canada is now Canada's leading advocate for wireless radiation safety. Frank Clegg, now CEO of the new non-profit organization, Canadians for Safe Technology (C4ST), offers an update on the dangers of high technology. It has been three years since the World Health Organization shocked the medical community by warning that exposure to microwave radiation from wireless devices might increase our cancer risk. If the same elite cancer specialists were to meet again today, the warning would be upgraded from a “possible carcinogen” to a “probable carcinogen.” That is according to Professor Emeritus Anthony Miller, of the University of Toronto, who was speaking recently to Toronto’s Public Works and Infrastructure Committee.
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Jean Lievens: The Favela Chef Turning Food Waste Into Organic Dishes – Slow Food, Clean Food
Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Gift Intelligence
Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people‚ where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world. Today, we have over 100.000 members all over the world. Find out more about us and what we do. Join us today.
Robin Good: Crowd-Sourced Cutation of Educational Tool Options
04 Education, IO Tools
A Crowdsourced Curated Database of the Best Educational Tools and Learning Apps: GEDB
GEDB, the Global Education Database, is a great and extremely useful curated collection of the best apps, web tools, gadgets and moocs now available online for educational purposes.
Anyone can register to GEDB and submit any valuable resource or tool by filling out the dedicated form.
Submissions are reviewed for factual accuracy and integrity and approved and published within 24 hours. Readers and contributors can in turn rate the review and share it online.
This is a great educational resource, simple to consult and well organized. A treasure trove of qualified resources for anyone wanting to teach and learn with new technologies.
Free to use.
Try it out now: http://www.gedb.org/
Stephen E. Arnold: Elasticsearch Insights — and IDC Steals Arnold Report Costing $4, Sells for $3500
Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency, IO Tools
Elasticsearch Disrupts Open Source Search
I did a series of reports about open source search. Some of these were published under mysterious circumstances by that leader of the azure chip consultants, IDC. You can see the $3,500 per report offers on the IDC site. Hey, I am not getting the money, but that’s what some of today’s go go executives do. The list of [misappropriated] titles appears below my signature.
Elasticsearch, a system that is based on Lucene, evolved after the still-in-use Compass system. What seems to have happened in the last six months is one of those singularities that Googlers seek.
In January 2014, GigaOM, a “real news” outfit reported that Elasticsearch had moved from free and open source to a commercial model. You can find that report in “6 million Downloads Later, Elasticsearch Launches a Commercial Product.” The write up equates lots of downloads with commercial success. Well, I am not sure that I accept that. I do know that Elasticsearch landed an additional $24 million in series B funding if Silicon Angle’s information is correct. Elasticsearch, armed with more money than the now aging and repositioning Lucid Works (originally Lucid Imagination) has. (An interview with one of the founders of Lucid Imagination, the precursor of Lucid Works is at http://bit.ly/1gvddt5. Mr. Krellenstein left Lucid Imagination abruptly shortly after this interview appeared.)
I noted that in February 2014, InfoWorld, owned by the publisher of the $3,500 report about Elasticsearch, called the company “ultra hip.” I don’t see many search companies—proprietary or open source—called “hip.” “Ultra Hip Elasticsearch Hits Commercial Release.” The write up asserts (although I wonder who provided the content):
SchwartzReport: US Ranks 34th out of 35 for Child Poverty — Narrowly Beat Romania for the Utlimate Dishonor
01 Poverty, 06 Family, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government
You can tell the health of a country and the potential of its future by the way it cares for its children. On that basis we are a very unhealthful country, and we don't have much of a future. This reports describes a truly shameful situation. That it receives hardly any attention in the media is yet another proof of our degradation. Click through to see the chart that accompanies this report, and you can download the report itself.
UNICEF Report: U.S. Ranks 34th Out of 35 in Childhood Poverty
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A sobering report released by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) found that out of the top 35 developed nations in the world, the United States comes 2nd to last in childhood poverty.
While many of the Scandinavian and Western European countries (i.e. countries with a robust social safety net) have very low rates of childhood poverty, America only just narrowly beat Romania for the worst. Poverty is a reality for at least 22 percent of American children (and considerably higher by other estimates).
