The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This is a great curated collection of tools for journalists hand-picked by top communication and publishing professionals. Phi Beta Iota: This is so useful we have extracted all tools from all journalists and list and link them below the line. Categories include Cartography/Geospatial, Google Apps, Research, Smart Phone Apps, Twitter Apps, Workspace I – Apps, …
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BitTorrent Tests Websites Hosted in the Crowd, Not the Cloud An experimental browser shows how peer-to-peer technology can serve up entire websites, not just individual files. An experimental new Web browser makes it possible for sites to be hosted not on a company’s servers but, instead, by a shifting crowd of individuals on their personal …
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Alex Tsakiris of Skeptiko interviews Anthropologist Jack Hunter on Paranthropology and the cross-cultural prevalence of mediumship. Join Skeptiko host Alex Tsakiris for an interview with Anthropologist Jack Hunter. During the interview Hunter hypothesizes that cross-cultural ritual may help bolster parapsychological effects in a lab-setting:
Taxpayers spend $140 billion funding science each year — but can’t access many of the results Despite a decades-old “open access” movement — to have all research findings in the public domain and not languishing behind paywalls — the traditional approach to publishing remains firmly in place.Taxpayers fund a lot of the science that gets …
Following is the best bit from a WIRE Magazine piece: As bitcoin becomes increasingly tamed and regulated by mainstream financial institutions, Amir Taaki has fought to bring the cryptocurrency back to its roots: independent, uncontrollable and deeply subversive. With his partner in thoughtcrime Cody Wilson, Taaki has led the development of Dark Wallet, the program …
This bitcoin alternative is a threat to Wall Street Peer-to-peer loans imperil banks, and cryptocurrencies may finish the job EXTRACT Digital currencies circumvent the fees and roadblocks to access that come with traditional financial services. The possibilities, especially in the underdeveloped world, are enormous. As much as $9.6 trillion in assets locked out of the …
Using Social Media to Anticipate Human Mobility and Resilience During Disasters The analysis of cell phone data can already be used to predict mobility patterns after major natural disasters. Now, a new peer-reviewed scientific study suggests that travel patterns may also be predictable using tweets generated following large disasters. In “Quantifying Human Mobility Perturbation and Resilience in Hurricane Sandy,” co-authors Qi Wang and …
