Wesley Clark interview (March 2007): “We plan to take out 7 countries in 5 years”

Wesley Clark interview (March 2007): “We plan to take out 7 countries in 5 years” Synopsis: 10 days after 9-11, visiting Joint Staff, not only knew we were going to take down Iraq, a few weeks later but got the list of six other countries: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iran Watch the short …

Journal: Leveraging Local Entrepreneurs

Hisham Wyne Writer, columnist and armchair sociologist Posted: October 1, 2010 12:35 PM Social Entrepreneurs and Change in Dubai An event revolving around the UN Millennium Goals, TEDx Change Dubai, recently gathered three hundred participants at the creek side Dubai Chamber of Commerce. Melinda Gates, wife of billionaire philanthropist and once Microsoft overlord Bill Gates, …

Seed Money for Ideas Addressing Global Health Challenges–and the Fly in the Milk Bowl

Unorthodox thinking is essential to overcoming the most persistent challenges in global health. Vaccines were first developed over 200 years ago because revolutionary thinkers took an entirely new approach to preventing disease. Grand Challenges Explorations fosters innovation in global health research. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $100 million to encourage scientists worldwide …

Event: 29-31 July 2010, Berkeley CA, Open Science Summit

Objectives:  Create an annual flagship event and news hub to build and maintain the identity of the international Open Science Movement.  Organize the various sub-communities into an effective, global, socio-technological force for rapid change in science/innovation policy. An attempt to gather all stakeholders who want to liberate our scientific and technological commons and enable a …

Journal: Military Medicine Up, Military Strategy Not…

On Distant Battlefields, Survival Odds Rise Sharply By ALAN CULLISON Every war brings medical innovations, as horrific injuries force surgeons to come up with new ways to save lives. During the Civil War, doctors learned better ways to amputate limbs, and in World War I they developed the typhoid vaccine. World War II brought the …