And now for the honest beard with no pretensions….
Journal: Seriously Weird, & Then There Is Arno
Cultural IntelligenceJournal: Census of Marine Life Astonishes & Enlightens
Academia, Earth Intelligence, Real Time
Census of marine life shows how various underwater life forms are connected to one another
Census of marine life took place over a ten-year period and cost $650 million. Over 200 thousand life forms were identified in the census of marine life.
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“We didn't know so much about the deep sea…,” Arbizu said. “We believe now that the deep sea is more connected, also the different oceans, than we previously thought.”
Phi Beta Iota: Science is on the cusp of a major new learning period, finding connectivity and co-evolution in tangible forms that can be documented. Science is also on the verge of a mental and ethical meltdown, between fragmented sub-specialties and rampant fabrications. Changes to the Earth that used to take 10,000 years now take three. It's time we rescued education, intelligence, and research, together.
Event: 4 Oct 2010, San Franciso CA, Crowd Conference
UncategorizedThe World's First Conference on the Future of Distributed Work
researchers, CEOs, technologists, outsourcing experts, legal scholars, and artists to discuss the rapidly democratizing and flattening of the global labor market.
The event includes a series of peer-reviewed presentation tracks, posters, technology demonstrations as well as invited keynote addresses from leaders in crowdsourcing.
The Future of Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is the act of engaging distributed groups of people to complete micro-tasks or generate information. It represents an expanding sphere of innovation, organization, data collection, and creativity.
Crowdsourcing raises complex questions about the future of work; the technical and organizational infrastructure used to complete large-scale tasks; and the relationships between computers, people, and the networks that connect us.
Topics
- Past, present, and future of crowdsourcing
- Quality assurance and metrics
- Social and economic implications of crowdsourcing
- Task design/Worker incentives
- Innovative projects, experiments, and applications
Financial Visualizations
Commerce, info-graphics/data-visualization
Reference: Steele at Huffington Post on Books
About the IdeaPhi Beta Iota: We've decided to carry rolling updates on the three areas at the Huffington Post where founder Robert Steele is posting (as opposed to here, where the other contributors are carrying the ball). This one will focus on blogs to the Books section, see also the Education and Politics counterparts.
Robert David Steele
Recovering spy, serial pioneer for open and public intelligence
Posted: October 4, 2010 08:41 AM
What's Wrong with America? Let Me List the Books….
Sun Tzu writes that if you do not know your enemy, AND you do not know yourself, you are destined to fail. The United States of America is not a Republic anymore, because its public has allowed a two-party tyranny to monopolize both the debate and the funds that we provide. The educational system is a mess, because Carnegie and Rockefeller wanted it to be a mess–it trains obedient non-thinkers, those of us that think survived the US educational system, we think in spite of it.
Below, with short introductory paragraphs, are lists of books that I have have reviewed at Amazon over the past decade, that focus on the specifics of “What's Wrong with America?” There is a counterpart list of books on what could be right with America and the world, I will cover that next week.
Posted: October 2, 2010 09:54 AM
#1 Amazon Reviewer for Non-Fiction Says Hello
I am going to be a most faithful contributor to the new vertical in Education. I agree with the propositions of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, respectively:
A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Unfortunately, we have become a nation of cheats and liars, with our two-party tyranny leading the way. Thankfully, “Open Everything” is here to stay, and Howard Zinn (RIP) had it right when he called the public a power no government can repress.
By way of introduction to my many reviews that provide the context for my deliberative focus on education, below are two booklists created in support of my most recent book proposing the creation, immediately, of a World Brain and Global Game. The first is a negative list, all the books that document all the negatives that we have allowed to proliferate over the past fifty years. The second is a positive list, and I must salute Tom Atlee, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and many others who have educated me this past decade on wisdom among us all.
Journal: US Travel Alert–Political and Fraudulent?
08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Intelligence (government), Media, Methods & Process, Misinformation & Propaganda, Officers CallHistory:
1) 9-11 known to have been at a minimum allowed to happen.
2) CIA known to have sponsored terrorism in Philippines, Indonesia, Viet-Nam, and Italy as pretext.
Review: Edward Lansdale’s Cold War (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War) (Paperback)
Reference: US Responsibility for Atrocities in Indonesia
3) Underpants Bomber very likely to have been a US-Israeli deception operation against the US public and Congress (never mind the Constitution, Bush-Cheney buried it, Obama-Biden have carried on in that tradition).
Journal: Underpants Bomber Saved Worthless NCTC [with other links]
Current Situation:
1) This rumor has been around before; and the chatter sounds American in origin.
December 20, 2009 Police expect Mumbai-style terror attack on City of London
2) This time, the “threat” is based on a single US-controlled captive being held in Afghanistan.
Thursday, 30 September 2010 Mumbai-style commando raid plan ‘uncovered in Pakistan'
3) The threat appears to have been originally aimed at silencing critics of the widespread drone attacks inside Pakistan.
Wed Sep 29 Terror plot in Europe prompted drone strikes
4) British reinforcement of the US claims suspect
Al Qaida's Mumbai-style attack plot could have been hatched in Rochdale
Our group bottom line: Not even close. This is very likely a fraud, most certainly over-reaction hyped for political purposes, and the evidence has not been collected, processed, analyzed, and presented properly. This is bogus. What is really scary is that in order to “prove” it, a crime against humanity may be ordered, a bombing or shooting spree of sorts using either a false flag recruit set in motion by covert action operators, or a bombing by a contractor such as Xe/Blackwater.
Event: 24-26 April Denver Seventh Generation (Environmental) Thinking–Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future
Uncategorized
8 October New Deadline for Submission
CALL FOR PAPERS and ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS
Submit your abstract to be considered by the 2011 conference committee for a speaking slot. Abstracts are due September 30, 2010. **DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 8TH** Use this submittal link.
NEW – ENERGY SYMPOSIUM
Please join us in Denver for NAEP’s Energy Symposium 2011 on April 26. A wide variety of nationally known speakers will brief us on challenges and tools for success. Topics include: Transmission and its role in energy siting; Renewables and their challenges; Federal funded financing programs and NEPA, New players and resources; Brownfields and disturbed lands energy siting strategies; Community Outreach; Issues specific to Federal Lands and more!
