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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Climate Change

Climate Change Review DVD: National Geographic: Six Degrees Could Change the World Review DVD: National Geographic–Human Footprint Review DVD: The 11th Hour Review: An Inconvenient Truth–The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (Paperback) Review: Catastrophe–An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization Review: Eaarth–Making a Life on a Tough …

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Reference: VISION 2015: A Globally Networked and Integrated Intelligence Enterprise [Suddenly Popular]

This is a brilliantly organized report with many stellar insights, all of which are undermined by the complete inability of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to accept the fact that 80%–at least– of what we need to know is not secret, not in English, and not owned or controlled by the U.S. Government. Phi …

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Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Derek Lomas

Derek Lomas is a PhD student in the Human-Computer Interactions Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is researching the underpinnings of fun and learning within commercial video games and helping to develop new design processes for building effective computer-aided learning games.? Lomas is a co-founder of the Playpower Foundation, which recently received support from …

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