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SchwartzReport: Big Sugar Does a Big Tobacco — True Cost of Sugar to Society

Does Sugar Kill? How the Sugar Industry Hid the Toxic Truth For decades, the industry kept scientists from asking: Does sugar kill? GARY TAUBES and CRISTIN KEARNS COUZENS – AlterNet (U.S.) November 15, 2012 | This article first appeared in Mother Jones Magazine. Get your magazine  subscription here. ON A BRISK SPRING Tuesday in 1976, a pair …

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Search: open education / digital learning [as of 30 Oct 2012]

Open education has at least three components:  free access to learning resources; digital access to formerly analog learning resoources (e.g. instructors in classrooms); and learning accomplishment validation (becoming common) or credentialing (rare at this time).  More broadly defined, open education is “root” for any society desiring to be both democratic and prosperous.  Open education has …

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Michel Bauwens: The Future of Learning, Networked Society – Ericsson YouTube (20:18) + Digital Native Education RECAP

Can ICT redefine the way we learn in the Networked Society? Technology has enabled us to interact, innovate and share in whole new ways. This dynamic shift in mindset is creating profound change throughout our society. The Future of Learning looks at one part of that change, the potential to redefine how we learn and …

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Yoda: Recording the Future – Repeat Itself, Foolishness Does…

Repeat itself, foolishness does. Predicting the future through online data mining Recorded Future predicts when and where a demonstration will occur after mining from the web all the related activities. EXTRACT As it turns out, the software company Recorded Future (which has recently been praised by Wired, the MIT Technology Review and other media outlets, …

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Search: solutions for prosperous world UPDATED to include readings & contact info

Updated 29 October 2012 to include frequent search request “readings about solutions for a prosperous world” also added skype and email contact info New integrated search term:  readings about solutions for a prosperous world The proven process of intelligence is not secret, not federal, and not expensive.  Thinking is free.  What matters is the strategic …

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Graphic: Graph Entropy

Source Phi Beta Iota:  This would be even more interesting if citation analytics and disciplinary dictionaries could be cross-referenced, that would potentially identify MISSING words and concepts, and POTENTIAL relationships between disciplines now operating in isolation from one another.  There are many information pathologies buried within all existing texts and images, there appears to be …

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