The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
America’s infrastructure grade: D+ The country received a D+ in the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) report card for American infrastructure. That’s somewhere between “mediocre” and “poor,” according to their rating. Optimists, take comfort: this is actually an improvement; last time the report was published, in 2009, the country received a D. The ASCE …
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BP accused of rewriting Wikipedia records A British Petroleum representative is being accused of rewriting almost half of the firm’s environmental records on popular online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. By Charlie Osborne Read full article.
The $10 cell phone has arrived – and with it, economic opportunity By Channtal Fleischfresser | March 18, 2013, 3:10 AM PDT On a recent trip to Shenzhen, China, a group of MIT students discovered that you can buy a cell phone there for as little as $10. While the cost of mobile phones has …
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The future of high-speed rail in the U.S. remains anything but certain, but in the meantime one person has taken it upon himself to show us what it should look like. Activist and artist Alfred Twu began working on the map in 2009, in response to President Obama’s plan for high-speed rail. The map has …
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“The Morning Briefing” is SmartPlanet’s daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we’re reading about high-speed rail. 1.) Protests bring Italian high-speed rail mega-tunnel to its knees. High-speed rail has garnered a lot of praise recently. The U.S. has a new national high-speed network map. China has unveiled the world’s longest high-speed line. …
Artist envisions drone-proof city How would you feel about living in a city where drones aren’t able to function? Gun shoots DNA bullets, tags suspects for arrest With SelectaDNA’s High Velocity DNA Tagging System, police can mark rioters or looters with a unique DNA tag and apprehend them later.
Is a free nationwide WiFi network coming to the U.S.? Tyler Falk, 4 February 2013 The United States government wants to make access to fast and free WiFi as easy as accessing public roads. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has proposed to free up digital infrastructure to allow free public access to WiFi — more powerful …
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