Michel Bauwens: 90% of peer-reviewed clinical research is completely false – GreenMedInfo

90% of peer-reviewed clinical research is completely false – GreenMedInfo Sayer Ji GreenMedInfo Nov 9, 2012 A seismic shift is occurring in the field of evidence-based medicine that a rare few are aware of, but which will (and likely already does) affect everyone, as the standard of medical care today largely follows from this model. …

Practical Reflections on United Nations Intelligence + UN RECAP

Updated 21 Dec 2012 1800 Short Persistent URL for This Post: http://tinyurl.com/UN-21-Intel DOCUMENT:  2012 Reflections on UN Intelligence 2.3 21 Dec 2012 I had occasion to look at the Report of the Secretary General on the Work of the Organization, and thought this would be a good time to integrate some of what I have …

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 …

Patrick Meier: Twitter Maps and Videos Showing Hurricane Sandy in Real-Time, with Geospatial and Substance Tags

The Most Impressive Live Global Twitter Map, Ever? My colleague Kalev Leetaru has just launched The Global Twitter Heartbeat Project  in partnership with the Cyber Infrastructure and Geospatial Information Laboratory (CIGI) and GNIP. He shared more information on this impressive initiative with the CrisisMappers Network this morning. According to Kalev, the project “uses an SGI super-computer to visualize …

Yoda: The Intertia of Large States – View from Quebec

Quebecois, he is.  Author’s translation, this is. States and the inertia With the commission Charbonneau, now we know what leads the inertia of the state. René Marcel Sauve Free forum Vigil Sunday, November 11, 2012 The State’s force of inertia. Concerning the imminent economic and political catastrophe awaiting the United States, I tend to agree …

Richard Stallman: Free Software Supporter Issue 55

Free Software Supporter Issue 55, October 2012 Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation’s monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 63,183 other activists. That’s 1,414 more than last month! View this issue online here: http://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2012/october El Free Software Supporter estará disponible en castellano a partir de …

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 …