The below newly-acquired Congressional Research Service (CRS) have been received from the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and are now catalogued and accessible here.
ADMIN CRS Update 05 May 2015
All CRS (List)Anthony Judge: Marrying Strategic White Holes with Problematic Black Holes
Cultural Intelligence
Marrying Strategic White Holes with Problematic Black Holes
Questionable role of officiants in the engagement process and nuptial arrangements
Produced in celebration of the encounter of 28 April 2015 between Ban Ki-moon (Secretary-General of the United Nations) and Pope Francis (of the Catholic Church) to discuss climate change and Mediterranean migration.
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Shahriyar Gourgi: Did Tesla Just Start an Energy Revolution?
05 Energy
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.
Sepp Hasslberger: NASA Discovers Arsenic-Based Life Form Relevant to Green Energy
05 Energy, Earth Intelligence
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
SchwartzReport: Plant Intelligence Round Two
Earth Intelligence
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
Patrick Meier: Nepal Humanitarian UAV Lessons Learned — A Long Way to Go — Internet Pipe is Achilles Heel.
Drones & UAVs, IO Impotency
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: 15 Takeaways on the Future of Journalism by Jeff Jarvis CUNY
Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Media
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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