The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Popular Science Wipes the Floor with WIRED Magazine Latest issue highlights: Internet in the Ether (airwaves abandned by TV could beam high-speed Internet everywhere) Out of Thin Air (a little oxygen is all a zinc-air battery needs to become a powerhouse RENOVATING AMERICA (specifics across transportation, water, power, telecom, and sewage. Phi Beta Iota: Our …
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Citizen science is a term used for projects or ongoing program of scientific work in which individual volunteers or networks of volunteers, many of whom may have no specific scientific training, perform or manage research-related tasks such as observation, measurement or computation. The use of citizen-science networks often allows scientists to accomplish research objectives more …
Extraordinary Collection, Unique, Timely, No Notes December 16, 2009 Dacher Keltner, Jason March, Jeremy Adam Smith This is a truly extraordinary collection of essays from the magazine Greater Good, a magazine I had no idea existed. The editors have done a tremendous job in selecting 35 essays (click on the cover above to see the …
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Chuck Spinney Sends: Viewed at the level of epistemology, the distinction be the search for truth in science and religion is stark: In science the structure of the world view — i.e., the brain’s interior model of reality — is evolved to match observations taken from the external world, whereas in religion, observations are evolved …
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Righteous Good SLAM of IPCC Fraud & Intimidation November 26, 2009 Ralph B. Alexander I read a lot, and I confess to have been among those who “bought in” to the celebrity alarmism of Al Gore, but I never displaced the totality of the threats to Earth for an obsessive focus on carbon emissions. Among …
EDITORIAL: Hiding evidence of global cooling Junk science exposed among climate-change believers Tuesday, November 24, 2009 Scientific progress depends on accurate and complete data. It also relies on replication. The past couple of days have uncovered some shocking revelations about the baloney practices that pass as sound science about climate change. It was announced Thursday …
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Lack of Mid-East peace deepens water crisis By Natalia Antelava, BBC News, Berui, 13 October 2009 For the last two years Iraq, Syria, Jordan and parts of Turkey and Lebanon, have suffered from the devastating effects of the worst drought that the Middle East has experienced in decades. In addition to human suffering, the security …
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