The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Huh? Cash, and Time, Runs Out for Afghanistan’s Wi-Fi City It was a project that symbolized America’s grand ambitions to rebuild Afghanistan: a DIY Wi-Fi network, free for Afghans to use, powering the aid projects and business ventures of the eastern city of Jalalabad. But now funding for the JLink network has run dry, and …
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Howard Rheingold 5.0 out of 5 stars Author is THE Path-Finder for Assisted Thinking,May 13, 2012 I first discovered Howard Rheingold through his book Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology. This led to my inviting him and with him, John Perry Barlow, to a conference in 1992, where over 600 intelligence …
Elsevier Versus Wikipedia: Academics Revolt Against Giant Publisher by Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch Blog CorpWatch, May 11th, 2012 Over 11,000 academics have pledged to boycott Elsevier, the Dutch publishing giant, for profiting off their work and making it unavailable to the general public. Now Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, is about to turn the world of corporate …
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Advice to Future PhDs from 2 Unusual Graduating PhDs Next week I will be attending my official graduation from The Fletcher School to receive my PhD diploma. It is—in a word—surreal. I’ve been working on my PhD for almost as long as I’ve known my good friend and colleague Chris Albon, which is to say, a …
Add to this idea a more open “peer review” process in place of the present obscure, back-scratching, club-based peer review process, and climate science might be well on its way to depoliticization. Open access will be crucial to maintain public confidence in science Making research papers freely available is about much more than breaking the …
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Ben Bernanke’s Judy Garland Impersonation by Gary North “Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high.” Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke delivered a speech on April 13 on “Rethinking Finance.” It certainly needs to be rethought at the highest levels. Unfortunately, Dr. Bernanke has not yet begun the process. Thinking, yes. Not rethinking. He ended …
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Evolving Towards a Partner State in an Ethical Economy Reality Sandwich, 4 April 2012 In the emerging institutional model of peer production, most visibly in the free software industry, we can distinguish an interplay between three partners, i.e. 1) a community of contributors that create a commons of knowledge, software or design; 2) an enterpreneurial …
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