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Climate Change – but which direction?

Paris Climate Change Conference – November 2015 – The twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) and the eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP)…

GMO vs Biodiversity

Bio diversity is crucial for any species to survive, Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) as plants destroy bio diversity with their perfect copies waiting for a specialized disease or parasite to ravish the clones. Swati Srivastava (Avatar name on social media)…

We’re not as selfish as we think we are. Here’s the proof

Stories of greed and ego bombard us. But a new study shows that humans are inherently good George Monbiot for The Guardian Do you find yourself thrashing against the tide of human indifference and selfishness? Are you oppressed by the…

Climate-change controversy – fuel to the fire

“Perth electrical engineer’s discovery will change climate change debate”, is the headline in a PerthNow article, reported by Miranda Devine (October 4, 2015). A footnote says that Dr David Evans “has unpacked the architecture of the basic climate model which…

Solar powered flat-pack emergency shelters from IKEA

IKEA Unveils Solar-Powered Flat Pack Shelters for Easily Deployable Emergency Housing – writes Lori Zimmer for Inhabitat. “IKEA has just turned its flat pack sensibilities from the urban apartment to the global village by unveiling a comfortable, solar-powered shelter that…

Insidious isotopes

INSIDIOUS ISOTOPES by Carol Wolman, MD INSIDIOUS-   causing harm in a way that is gradual or not easily noticed  ISOTOPE– any one of various forms in which the atoms of a chemical element can occur I’m writing this now because…

Thomas Lowenhaupt on Face 2 Face

This week’s show starts with our friend, the singer and guitarist Gabriella Callender, and continues with Tom Lowenhaupt to discuss .nyc and Internet Top Level Domains in NYC and around the World. Read more about .nyc in New York

No mind’s eye: UK scientists term inability to visualize memories ‘aphantasia’

Can’t imagine the faces of your loved ones? Or visualize your memories? If this applies to you, then you’re probably one of those people who have the rare condition scientists have recently termed “aphantasia.” Visualization results in the activity in…

Mapping New York City’s Civic Commons

New York, August 20, 2015 – Churchill nailed it in 1947 when he said “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others which have been tried from time to time.” For decades thereafter traditional Western Democracy…

World’s nuclear facilities vulnerable to cyber-attacks

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 17, 2015 (IPS) – As hackers continue to rampage through closely-guarded information systems and databases with monotonous regularity, there is a tempting new target for cyber-attacks: the world’s nuclear facilities. By Thalif Deen writing for Inter Press Service…

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