Mongoose: VICE – Spy Agencies are Like Old Porn

Aging porn stars….too funny. Spy Agencies Are Like Old-School Porn — But That’s Changing By Jennifer Peters at VICE.com EXTRACT The traditional intelligence agencies are a lot like the old-school porn industry: they’re still trying to make and sell porn like it’s 1979, even though a lot of what they’re selling is just hanging out …

JZ Liszkiewicz: Automated Sensing and Texting Environmental Data

Bridging the Environmental Data Divide: When Earth Texts Home In our latest From the Field, Frontline SMS CEO Sean McDonald talks about their new environmental sensor, designed to bridge the environmental data divide with open hardware. Many thanks to Sean McDonald for sharing this article about the exciting environmental sensor technology Frontline SMS have developed with …

SchwartzReport: Fossil Subsidies vs. Wind Savings

Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m a minute, says IMF ‘Shocking’ revelation finds $5.3tn subsidy estimate for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world’s governments The U.S. Could Get a Third of Its Electricity From Wind Power—and Save Billions of Gallons of Water A new report details the health and environmental …

Yoda: Magnetic Heat Reduction = Radical Drop in Energy Needed to Cool

Landmark study proves that magnets can control heat and sound Experiment reveals new mysterious properties of sound waves COLUMBUS, Ohio—Researchers at The Ohio State University have discovered how to control heat with a magnetic field. In the March 23 issue of the journal Nature Materials, they describe how a magnetic field roughly the size of a …

2014 Robert Steele Applied Collective Intelligence

Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-ACI As published: Spanda CI–Applied collective intelligence Citation: Steele, R.D. (2014) “Applied Collective Intelligence: Human-Centric Holistic Analytics, True Cost Economics, and Open Source Everything,” Spanda Journal (Vol. 2, pp 127-137) ABSTRACT: The emerging discipline of Collective Intelligence (CI) has been mis-directed by a combination of the faddish focus on “wisdom of the crowds” …