The solar plane will land in New York City soon, but its water-borne counterpart is already here: Early this week the world's largest solar-powered boat steamed into lower Manhattan and docked in small marina, usually reserved for multimillion dollar yachts, in the shadow of the new World Trade Center tower. The three-year-old ship, dubbed “Turanor” after a term for solar power in The Lord of the Rings, is on a tour of the Atlantic from its home base in southern France, documenting how the warming sea is shifting the Gulf Stream, a powerful cross-ocean current that drives the weather of Europe and West Africa.
Besides Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, most Democrats abandoned their civil liberty positions during the age of Obama. With a new leak investigation looming, the Democrat leadership are now being forced to confront all the secrets they’ve tried to hide.For most bigwig Democrats in Washington, D.C., the last 48 hours has delivered news of the worst kind — a flood of new information that has washed away any lingering doubts about where President Obama and his party stand on civil liberties, full stop.
Glenn Greenwald’s exposure of the NSA’s massive domestic spy program has revealed the entire caste of current Democratic leaders as a gang of civil liberty opportunists, whose true passion, it seems, was in trolling George W. Bush for eight years on matters of national security.
“Everyone should just calm down,” Senator Harry Reid said yesterday, inhaling slowly.
That’s right: don’t panic.
The very topic of Democratic two-facedness on civil liberties is one of the most important issues that Greenwald has covered. Many of those Dems — including the sitting President Barack Obama, Senator Carl Levin, and Sec. State John Kerry — have now become the stewards and enhancers of programs that appear to dwarf any of the spying scandals that broke during the Bush years, the very same scandals they used as wedge issues to win elections in the Congressional elections 2006 and the presidential primary of 2007-2008.
The GE Global Innovation Barometer, now in its third year, explores how business leaders around the world view innovation and how those perceptions are influencing business strategies in an increasingly complex and globalized environment. The Barometer is an international opinion survey of senior business executives actively engaged in the management of their firm’s innovation strategy. It is the largest global survey of business executives dedicated to innovation.GE expanded the global study in 2013, surveying more than 3,000 executives in 25 countries. This year’s Barometer examines what factors business believe to be drivers and deterrents of innovation and analyzes specific strategies and policies that enable innovation and drive growth.
Innovation Barometer: How Collaboration Breeds Advantage – See more at: http://www.ideaslaboratory.com/2013/01/17/innovation-barometer-how-collaboration-breeds-advantage/#sthash.VtLWpvy6.dpuf
Results from GE's 2013 Global Innovation Barometer show how nations that partner experience greater innovative success.
The smaller the world becomes, the greater the possibilities for growth and collaboration, something most global executives surveyed in this year’s GE Global Innovation Barometer, readily agree about.
The results are clear. Those most experienced at partnership are among the most successful: Germany, China, Brazil and Sweden. 87 percent of the more than 3,000 executives questioned in the survey are confident their firms could be more innovative and successful if they collaborated or partnered with other businesses.
Robin Good is one of the leading voices on content curation, and he got there by curating content. A bit meta? Sure. But he can show his secrets to you. Discover how to become the new Google by learning how to find, organize and publish the very best content and resources in your specific niche / industry. You will learn what it takes to increase authority, visibility and trust by curating the best content being published in your industry sector as well as what specific steps and skills you need to take and refine to obtain immediately serious results.In this live online course with Robin Good, you will see exactly the tools and the methods for finding and organizing your ideal content sources, where to discover new ones daily, and how to edit, enrich and contextualize other people content for your web site without looking like a content-stealer.
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In this 2-hour online live session you will see exactly the tools and the methods for finding and organizing your ideal content sources, where to discover new ones daily, and the specific steps you should follow to properly edit, enrich and contextualize relevant content resources for your audience.
Something has changed in the culture and values of academic science over the last quarter-century. University science is now entangled with entrepreneurship, and researchers with a commercial interest are caught in an ethical quandary. How can an academic scientist honor knowledge for its own sake, while also using knowledge as a means to generate wealth? Science in the Private Interest investigates the trends and effects of modern, commercialized academic science. This book dives unhesitatingly into some of modern science's messiest and most urgent questions. How did scientists begin choosing proprietary gain over the pursuit of knowledge? What effects have academic-corporate partnerships had on the quality and integrity of science? And, most importantly, how does this affect the public?
This project titled “Corrupted Science” was developed as part of a series of lectures that explores the disengagement of science from its ethical roots, resulting in a loss of honesty, integrity, objectivity, autonomy, and public confidence.
A series of power point presentations highlight the corrupting influences on scientific practice. This site grew out of the research for the book Science in the Private Interest (Rowman & Littlefield Pub., 2003). This project is supported by the Common Benefit Litigation Expense Trust.
This review is from: Wireless Mesh Networking: Architectures, Protocols and Standards (Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications) (Hardcover)
Wireless networking has been around for more than a decade, but mesh is a relatively recent revolution. This book edits together extensive research from about 50 global experts into an easy-to-read, fluid and authoritative account of this emerging technology and market.
The release of the 802.11 IEEE standard in 1997 set off a chain of developments including 802.11 a / b / g / and n that have revolutionized the lives of computer users – to a point where laptop/notebooks/netbooks tend to be a primary and fully capable method for network access today.
A similar effort, 802.11s, has been under development since at least 2003 – with the objective of establishing a mesh networking standard. This book does an excellent job raising many of the considerations behind that standard, at the same time it addresses other protocol and standards.
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