Kenneth Mikkelsen: Secret Power of Generalists — And How They Will Rule the Future

The Secret Power Of The Generalist — And How They’ll Rule The Future Meghan Casserly Forbes, 7/10/2012 EXTRACT We’ve become a society that’s data rich and meaning poor. A rise in specialists in all areas – science, math, history, psychology – has resulted in tremendous content. But how valuable is that knowledge without context? Despite the …

SchwartzReport: Psychiatry Confesses to Idiocy — Can It Change?

It is long past time to pull back the curtain on the truth about the unholy relationship between psychiatry and Big Pharma. Here’s a start. Psychiatry Now Admits It’s Been Wrong in Big Ways – But Can It Change? BRUCE E LEVINE – Truthout When I interviewed investigative reporter Robert Whitaker in 2010 after the …

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff 2.0

BOOK: The Turning Point: Creating Resilience in a Time of Extremes Also: Radio Interview with Author BUDGET: Congress Wants More Insight into Cyber, SOF Budgets CYBER: Cyberwar Increasingly Defined By Espionage and Regional Conflicts, Argues FireEye CYBER: DDoS New Technique, Warns US-CERT CYBER: Google Spyware SMS Tracker CYBER: How Jihadists Use the Internet

Patrick Cockburn: Saudi Arabia Funds Terrorism & Mass Murder — USG Silent & Therefore Complicit [While Also Approving $4B to “Train & Equip” Saudi National Guard]

Mass murder in the Middle East is funded by our friends the Saudis World View: Everyone knows where al-Qa’ida gets its money, but while the violence is sectarian, the West does nothing Patrick Cockburn The Independent, Sunday 8 December 2013 Donors in Saudi Arabia have notoriously played a pivotal role in creating and maintaining Sunni …