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Frank de Langen: Open Education & Open Business

Access, Design, Economics/True Cost, Education
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Frank de Langen

Open Education, efficiency, collaboration and management

Ben Janssen [has] made an interesting remark, as Ben often does. In his view, Open Education is not only a public good, but can also be used as a communication channel. As he stated:

“in my work as an external consultant I often find that departments within an organization are working on the same projects, starting the same pilots and the same programs”.

Even over organizations he sees the same phenomena: organizations who work on the same projects without knowing what happens a stone throw away.

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Jean Lievens: Open Business Models by Creative Commons – Call for Participation

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Jean Lievens

Creative Commons Launches Program to Identify, Share Open Business Models

Creative Commons is developing an “open business models initiative” aimed at showing how Creative Commons licenses are being used by businesses, not-for-profits, and governments. According to Paul Stacey, Creative Commons’ associate director of global learning, one of the most asked questions by entrepreneurs to the Creative Commons organization is, “How do I earn a living, pay the bills, and keep the lights on if I openly license my work and give it away for free?” The project is intended to identify and share examples of businesses that are doing just that.

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Review: Truth – Philosophy in Transit

7 Star Top 1%, Philosophy, Religion & Politics of Religion, Science & Politics of Science
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John D. Caputo

7 Stars Life Transformative Fundamental, Joyous, Optimistic, Calming Integrates Faith with Reason, God with Science – Cosmic Root

I read across 98 categories and the older I get, the more I think college should be spaced out over 20 years and degrees given expiration dates. This is an extraordinarily profound and moving book that is both readable and joyous.

Bottom line up front: truth in transit is truth in the becoming, the event, the conversation, the evolution — all men are created equal was initially all white elites; then all white men; then including slaves generally of color; then women; and now evolving to include transgender and perhaps one day, animals other than humans and even plants.

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Evan Ellis: China Arms Sales Grow in South America

02 China, 08 Wild Cards, Commerce, Government, Military, Peace Intelligence
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Evan Ellis

Should U.S. be worried about Chinese arms sales in the region?

To some degree, Chinese weapons are capturing market share from Russian systems in states that have traditionally been anti-U.S. as well as in other parts of the region. Indeed, the electronics in some Chinese systems and the quality of Chinese support in maintenance and spare parts is now considered better than that of comparable Russian systems.

Such sales also multiply opportunities for China to strengthen its military-to-military relationships with the region through the training of Latin American personnel on the Chinese systems, as well as creating a possible demand for an in-region People’s Liberation Army (PLA) military training and maintenance presence in the future…

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Sepp Hasslberger: YouTube (1:46) Self-Sustaining Motor-Bike Invented by Mexican Teen-Agers

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Sepp Hasslberger

It is great to see that free energy inventions are now being reported in a more factual way – no longer with incredulity and cynicism…

YouTube (1:46) Mexican students invent eco-friendly motorbike

2 young Mexican inventors, Victor Garcia, age 17 and Raul Grajales, have built and shown a selfsustaining electric motorbike. It is started by a conventional 12 Volts Lead Acid battery and if the back wheel goes faster than 2000 RPM the whole bike gets self-sufficient and propels itself via some kind of recharging process.