The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This is at once fascinating and, at the same time, yet another example of how science is far outpacing the ethics as to how that science should be used.
Miniature Brains Grown in Test Tubes – a New Path for Neuroscience?
ALOK JHA – The Guardian (U.K.)
Here is some excellent news about nuclear power. One by one they are beginning to close down these installations. Now we just have to see that in the next 20,000 years we maintain the waste safely in unbroken continuity.
Vermont Yankee Joins the Tsunami of U.S. Reactor Shutdowns
HARVEY WASSERMAN – Truthdig
EXTRACT:
But the decision also opened Entergy to other challenges, especially in front of Vermont’s Public Service Board. ‘Hidden in the federal ruling Entergy ostensibly won was a confirmation that the state, through the PSB, had the right to reject Vermont Yankee’s continued operation on reliability, economics and more.”
Phi Beta Iota: Corporations work under public commissions. The only thing barring total eradication of corporate corruption and idiocy is government corruption and idiocy.
India-Pakistan-Kashmir: Pakistani press reported no Indian artillery fire across the Line of Control in Kashmir on Monday and Tuesday this week for the first time in weeks. It also reported that cross-border truck traffic has been normal through at least one crossing point on the Line of Control.
Comment: Since the killing of five Indian soldiers on 6 August, Indian artillery shelling and gunfire across the Line of Control have been daily. A lull in shelling could be an important step towards normalizing political contacts, but it is too soon to call this a lull. Thus far Pakistan has not provided an explanation for the ambush on the 6th.
Iraq: A wave of coordinated bombings in mainly Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad on 28 August killed 86 people and wounded 263, according to police and medical sources. Bombings also occurred in two other Iraqi cities.
Comment: Surges in bombing attacks are becoming twice weekly occurrences in Baghdad, according to press reports. Those on the 28th appear unusually concentrated and well-coordinated.
A new generation of cash-strapped ‘millennials' have very different expectations about jobs, credit and money. As Michelle Fleury reports, they are using the internet for a new ‘sharing economy'.
The cash-strapped millennials using ‘sharing economy'
The ‘millennials' are the generation that came of age after the 2008 financial crisis.
Cash-strapped and internet-savvy, they have very different expectations about jobs, credit and money.
Part of the new ‘sharing economy', they have taken to the idea of sharing rather than buying with a vengeance.
Michelle Fleury reports from New York.
Christopher Strevens Nuclear Reactor – PESWiki
Four years ago, then 66-year-old inventor from London, Dr. Christopher Strevens, began posting a website with instructions of how to build his “fusion reactor”, which he says: “Creates helium from hydrogen.
It also captures the power given off during the reaction as electrical power.”
He also posted several videos to YouTube showing his prototype in operation, and showing the different color of gas from before versus after; as well as showing spectral analysis that indicates that the hydrogen that he puts into the system has transmuted to helium — a nuclear phenomenon.
He said: “I found that when I increased the exciter power to 800 Watts the output rose to 2,000 Watts [2.5-times overunity], and when I isolated the reactor from the exciter this power remained. The spark gap regulator became active keeping the power at this level. I only allowed this for a short time before reconnecting the exciter and turning the power down and the reaction ceased.”
Here's an inspiring and insightful article by Sally Whiting on ContentsMagazine analyzing the role of the archivist and the traits and responsibilities that make his work so valuable to content producers.
She writes: “Applying archival principles to content strategy makes for solid content—I can demonstrate this, and I exercise it in my work.”
As content curators will increasingly need to learn more about archiving, organizing and preserving what they curate, this article provides an inspiring set of considerations about the key value of context and provenance.
In addition she poses some important questions about what could actually be done by better curating our own content archives:
“Archives are accustomed to a passive role, asking reflectively what their patrons want to find.
As they work to help researchers tell their stories, it’s easy for archives to forget to keep shaping their own.”
Inspiring. Rightful. 8/10
Digital Archives & the Content Strategist
by Sally Whiting for Issue № 5
Full article: http://contentsmagazine.com/articles/digital-archives-the-content-strategist/
(Image credit: girl picking from the books – Shutterstock)
Best Social Monitoring Tool Depends on Who Is Asking
Posted: 23 Aug 2013 06:15 PM PDT
Confused about social media monitoring? A thread at Quora, “Which Are the Best Social Media Monitoring Tools?” suggests that like search, social media monitoring is pretty tricky. The overall consensus statement makes it clear there is no simple answer: “No overall best tool. Pick the best fit for your needs.” Hmm.
Several respondents share their thoughts. One had compared Radian6 and Sysomos, and found the latter much easier to use. Another liked Engagor for its low price point. Perhaps the most comprehensive (though admittedly promotional) answer comes from Web Liquid account executive Ben Semmar, who shares:
“[. . .] Over the past couple of months, I’ve been involved in the creation of a Social Media Monitoring Buyer’s Guide. We began with a list of over 40 vendors, and based on a variety of criteria, whittled it down to a list five ‘finalists’ that we then conducted hands-on trials with. We found that some tools perform better than other tools in certain areas (but, really, doesn’t everything?) and so we don’t proclaim one tool king of them all; suffice it to say, though, that the five tools we tested are, based on our experience with and objective evaluation of the market, the best out there. You can find the study here: http://www.webliquidgroup.com/
social-media-monitoring-tool- buyers-guide.”
Note that the guide he mentions is free, but requires a name and email address to view. Semmar goes on to assert one important caveat: We have not reached the point where algorithms can make reliable judgments about which insights a business should focus on, and how to use them. Though quality monitoring software can be a useful tool, the human mind is still required to wield it. (For now.)
Cynthia Murrell, August 28, 2013
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