Homemade Spacecraft w/Camera + iPhone Attached Records Blackness of Space

The Brooklyn Space Program is a organization formed by a group of friends in New York City interested in scientific experiments, engineering, design and education. See this video from a camera attached to a weather balloon that rose into the upper stratosphere and recorded the blackness of space. See the slideshow BrooklynSpaceProgram.org

Journal: US State Department Clueless on Afghanistan

humanitarian news and analysis a project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Analysis: Peace moves in Afghanistan as fighting goes on EXTRACT: The Taliban have rejected formal contacts with Kabul and dubbed the process “futile propaganda”. They have repeatedly vowed not to engage in any negotiations until all foreign forces leave …

Reference: Panetta Puts Lipstick on the Pig (Again)

Message from the Director: Lessons from Khowst Last December, our Agency family lost seven courageous and talented colleagues in a terrorist attack at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khowst, Afghanistan. These dedicated men and women were assigned to CIA’s top priority—disrupting and dismantling al-Qa’ida and its militant allies. That work carries, by its very nature, …

Reference: How to Think Like Steve Jobs…Explore!

Very interesting……Jobs sees the same things as other leaders, but he perceives them differently. The key to thinking differently is perceiving things differently. To perceive things differently, you must be exposed to divergent ideas, places and people. This forces your brain to make connections it otherwise might miss. Steve Jobs has done this his entire …

Reference: Reader-to-Leader Framework–Motivating Technology-Mediated Social Participation

The Reader-to-Leader Framework: Motivating Technology-Mediated Social Participation Jennifer Preece, University of Maryland1 Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland2 Abstract Billions of people participate in online social activities. Most users participate as readers of discussion boards, searchers of blog posts, or viewers of photos. A fraction of users become contributors of user-generated content by writing consumer product …

My Talk With Tom Atlee: Primer on Citizen Intelligence

Robert David Steele Serial pioneer, hacking humanity. – – – – – – – Posted: October 19, 2010 09:13 AM My Talk With Tom Atlee: Primer on Citizen Intelligence Click on Title to Read at Huffington Post and do Comments. On the left, asking these questions, Tom Atlee, co-founder of the Co-Intelligence Institute and author …