The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Today’s issue of Nature contains a paper with a rather unusual author list. Read past the standard collection of academics, and the final author credited is… an online gaming community. Scientists have turned to games for a variety of reasons, having studied virtual epidemics and tracked online communities and behavior, or simply used games to …
Africa: The 2nd Safest Continent to Surf the Web by HASH on August 23, 2010 Here’s an interesting study by AVG on internet security, asking “Where in the World are you most likely to be hit by a malicious computer attack or virus?”. Apparently, and surprisingly to me, the answer is “not Africa” or South …
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Defense News August 23, 2010 Experts: DoD Could Have Prevented WikiLeaks Leak By William Matthews While senior Pentagon officials resort to bluster in hopes of preventing the WikiLeaks website from posting any more secret Afghan war documents on the Internet, security experts say there is a lot the U.S. military could have done to prevent …
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Multilateral peace operations: Africa, 2009 Multilateral peace operations: Asia, 2009 Multilateral peace operations: Europe, 2009 Multilateral peace operations: personnel, 2009 Kirsten Soder SIPRI Fact Sheets [Click for Download Options] These SIPRI Fact Sheets present data from the SIPRI Multilateral Peace Operations Database to illuminate some of the most significant developments in peace operations around the …
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Katie Borner MIT Press to release 31 October 2010 On sale for just under $20–this is a BARGAIN. Review “Science is a voyage of discovery and Katy Börner has provided its first atlas. This excellent book offers a compendium of all that is best in explaining visual maps of our scientific knowledge.” —Michael Batty, University …
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Beyond 5–SPECTACULAR–Integrative & Inspiring, August 17, 2010 David Perkins I bumped this book to the front of the line after reading the galley of Reflexive Practice: Professional Thinking for a Turbulent World which in turn bumped The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education that I had half-finished. The three together make for …
HealthMap.org Public website bringing together disparate data sources to achieve a unified view of the current global state of infectious diseases. Comment: Idea = add mobile alerts based on location, making the alerts more relevant to those closer to the outbreaks. Related: + Biosurveillance (and the twitter feed) + Praecipio International | An Institute for …
