The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
China’s ‘big hole’ marks scale of supercomputing race 1,000 U.S. scientists are involved in exascale development, but China and Europe have stepped up their investment, IBM warns Computerworld – WASHINGTON — To make a point about China’s interest in supercomputing, David Turek, IBM’s vice president of deep computing, displayed a slide with a picture depicting …
Maker Faire Africa is a celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and creation. Here you will find the Makers who showed their work at the 2010 event in Nairobi Kenya. Work ranges from time saving devices for agriculture to alternative energy sources from design with recycled objects to social media applications for mobile phones. Per maker …
Openmoko™ – Open. Mobile. Free. Openmoko™ is a project dedicated to delivering mobile phones with an open source software stack. Openmoko is currently selling the Neo FreeRunner phone to advanced users and will start selling it to the general public as soon as the software is more developed. Phi Beta Iota: We’ve had our say …
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Energy in the developing world Power to the people Technology and development: A growing number of initiatives are promoting bottom-up ways to deliver energy to the world’s poor (Sep 2nd 2010) AROUND 1.5 billion people, or more than a fifth of the world’s population, have no access to electricity, and a billion more have only …
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Combines Holistic Thinking with Drill-Down Detail August 1, 2010 Heather Rogers This is a solid five in my view because the author goes beyond weaving a story about green gone wrong in three main areas (food, shelter, transportation), providing what almost all other books miss: the systems of systems “its all connected” and “what’s good …
5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the most important — certainly the most thought-provoking — book in years October 22, 2009 Review by Jesse Kornbluth Book by Stewart Brand I was interviewing George Soros as the Dow rapidly shed 300 points and crashed through the 10,000 level. “Is this it?” I asked. Soros shrugged — …
Starts Weak, Ends Strong, Not the Whole Picture July 21, 2010 Bill McKibben EDIT of 2 August 2010: However great the mind or the man, we all make mistakes. Paul Hawkins made his with Monsanto, I’ve made mine. ClimateGate established with clarity the fraud associated with both the fabricated science and the intended “sub-prime mortgaging” …
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