The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
ACADEMY REPORT ON ELECTRIC GRID WITHHELD FOR FIVE YEARS Over the objections of its authors, the Department of Homeland Security classified a 2007 report from the National Academy of Sciences on the potential vulnerability of the U.S. electric power system until most of it was finally released yesterday. The report generally concluded, as other reports …
How a $20 tablet from India could blindside PC makers, educate billions and transform computing as we know it “This is going to be revolutionary for the developing world” On Sunday Nov. 11, the president of India, Pranab Mukherjee, will have unveiled the seven-inch Aakash 2 tablet computer Tuli’s company is selling to the government …
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Intelligence, this is. Predicting presidents, storms and life by computer Associated Press, Saturday, November 10, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — Forget political pundits, gut instincts, and psychics. The mightier-than-ever silicon chip seems to reveal the future. In just two weeks this fall, computers models displayed an impressive prediction prowess. It started when the first computer model …
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How to Avoid Fragility and Failure By John Robb Sandy knocked out power for 8.5 million people, mostly in New York and New Jersey. Wow. What’s worse? A week later, nearly a million people were still without power. Now, a Nor’easter — a freezing cold version of a tropical storm that plagues New England during …
With them, force is. STARTING POINT: Tom Atlee: Systemic Causation & Sandy IDEN A: I like the distinction between direct causation and systemic causation. However, I would prefer a general conception of causation. I would say that ideas about causes assume a stable world. We assume that what happened in the past will happen in …
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Sandy notes 1: Systems and the language of causation Dear friends, It’s so tempting to say “Global warming caused superstorm Sandy.” And it is so easy to counter with “Storms like Sandy happen. You can’t say that global warming caused a particular storm!” Much human folly nowadays comes from believing that identifying a direct cause …
Smart paint lights your way on the highway By mid-2013, the Netherlands will feature glow-in-the-dark tarmac and dynamic paint that warns drivers of weather conditions. “The Smart Highway” is a concept designed by Studio Roosegaarde and Heijmans Infrastructure. Including glow-in-the-dark roads, interactive lighting and an induction priority lane for electric vehicles, the team wants to …
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