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2012/09/03

SmartPlanet: Reinventing Education via edX and MOOC [Massive Open Online Courses]

Q&A: Anant Agarwal, edX’s president and first professor In May, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced their joint plan to “explore the frontiers of digital education” by offering free online courses to learners around the world. As a result, their new online learning platform edX entered the burgeoning world of MOOCs …

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2012/08/23

SmartPlanet: Urban beekeeping keeps cities healthy

Urban beekeeping keeps cities healthy “We need bees for the future of our cities and urban living,” Noah Wilson-Rich said at TEDxBoston. Wilson-Rich completed his Ph.D. in honeybee health in 2005. In 2006, honeybees started disappearing. “We don’t even find dead bodies, and it’s bizarre. Researchers still do not know what’s causing it,” says …

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2012/08/162012/08/16

SmartPlanet: Bill Gates is Shit Hot — Really!

Next-gen toilets that could change the world Kirsten Korosec | August 16, 2012, Flush toilets get the job done. They also require a network of piped water, sewer and electrical connections, the kind of vast infrastructure developing nations don’t have, and likely won’t, for years. That translates into a potentially lethal situation for the 2.5 …

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2012/03/032012/03/03

Robert Steele: Future-Proofing the City

As Wyoming plans for federal collapse (where, exactly, they will put the aircraft carrier remains unresolved), it behooves all of us to spend a little time thinking about “what if” the national supply chains for food and fuel implode. I am not that enthused about the terms “smart city” or even “intelligent city,” but recognize …

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2011/01/302011/10/22

Marginalization Not Al Quada the Real Atrocity

The ‘bin Laden’ of marginalisation The real terror eating away at the Arab world is socio-economic marginalisation. Larbi Sadiki 14 Jan 2011 Al-Jazeera From Tunisia and Algeria in the Maghreb to Jordan and Egypt in the Arab east, the real terror that eats at self-worth, sabotages community and communal rites of passage, including marriage, is …

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2010/03/282010/05/08

EVENT REPORT: State of the Planet 2010, Columbia Univ, New York City

Panels and keynotes program schedule I was told via email from someone involved in the event that a video will be posted online.I will be posting this over a the Earth Institute blog (especially since it has zero comments for the March 25 event) as a challenge to improve the overall framework of the “State …

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2010/01/222011/10/22

Search: smart nation intelligence reform electoral reform national security reform

Lovely to see a search like this. Here are the core references and then a comment and then a number of other references, but the reality is that this entire website is about creating a smart nation, and world brain, and four reforms: electoral, intelligence, governance, and national security. Afterthought: all the references from the …

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