The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Korea’s million dollar private teachers You may think that a teacher could only achieve rock star status and be paid millions in some alternate universe. However, it’s really happening in South Korea – in the private sector. UPS stores now offer 3D printing services The UPS Store is the first nationwide retailer to offer 3D …
Forget ‘fast fashion’. How about apparel with an ethical pedigree? In Zady-land, style rules — but so does a well-edited closet, containing carefully sourced apparel. . . . . . . . What technology has wrought: the rise of the ‘rateocracy’ Technology may increase corporate transparency overnight, in a way that decades of laws and …
Are healthcare costs in developed countries simply opportunistic? One Indian healthcare entrepreneur thinks so. Devi Shetty, heart surgeon turned businessman, has a vision for India — cut-price, life-saving surgery for those who cannot afford it otherwise. Shetty has created 21 healthcare centers around India with a difference; by trimming down operational costs, the price of …
Q&A: Tiffani Williams, computer scientist, on creating an open source tree of life By Christina Hernandez Sherwood | July 29, 2013 The Open Tree of Life project culls years’ worth of segmented scientific research in an effort to create a current, open source version of our knowledge on thousands of plant and animal species. Tiffani …
Sign of the future: Sensors that stick everywhere Lose your keys? Your cat? The TV remote? StickNFind has an app for that. Better yet, StickNFind has colorful sensors the size of a quarter, its own Bluetooth software stack, and a developer platform that could turn this crowd-funded Indiegogo product into a foundation piece for the …
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Look to nature for lessons in building resiliency Mary Catherine O’Connor | July 18, 2013 The Earth is changing at a climatic level, and we humans, in the wake of a growing list of extreme weather events and years-long trends, are scrambling to react. Within the built environment (which includes everything from utility grids to …
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The world peaked in 1978 A new study of global wealth says prosperity peaked around 1978, and we’ve been heading downhill ever since. New Scientist reports. Governments have tended to build economic policies around gross domestic product (GDP), the sum of all monetary transactions in an economy. GDP has risen fairly steadily — and often …
