The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Credit is just as good as money. We can give each other credit. That means we can use our own money, no longer depending on the banks and the speculators… Community Credit: The Next Generation of Financial Architecture How would nature design a financial system? What we can see today, if we choose to look …
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Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this “beautiful question.” With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek’s groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in …
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Tip of the Hat to Contributing Editor Berto Jongman Short Bio & Some Books Below the Fold
32,000 Open Source Hardware Designs This morning, our community has publicly shared over 32,000 open source hardware designs with the world. They span the full range of dev boards, power supplies, home automation, solar, picture frames, and wearables. We can’t speak highly enough of those dedicated to the open source hardware movement, and who choose …
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Holistic design. The Success Story Of Anti-Malaria Faso Soap EXTRACT The soap is enriched with a special secret mixture of local herbs and leaves a scent that repels mosquitoes on the skin. In addition waste water products from the soap contain substances that prevent the development of mosquito larvae. This is important, since poor sanitation is one …
Augmenting the Collective Intelligence of the Ecosystem of Systems Communities: Introduction to the Design of the CI Enhancement Lab (CIEL) George Pór* Director Community Intelligence, London, UK The quality of collective intelligence flowing in and across systems communities of various disciplines, and the fragmentation or connectedness of their mental models of the world, shape their …
This is a great blog post by Clark Quinn, e-learning guru whom I think highly of. His post talks about whether there is a science to learning (spoiler: there is) and how e-learning professionals should frame it as learning engineers. It got me wondering how content engineers and other technical communicators beyond those in the …
