With the global population bursting at the seams, the scarcity of rich land to grow food, and more demanding diets, food supplies are diminishing at an alarming rate.
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Global Food Shortage; A Serious Threat? | Healthmad - 0 views
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The global population, which currently stands at 6.8 billion, is expected to reach 9 billion within the next 40 years. This is a lot of mouths to feed, especially in areas where population growth will be the highest; mainly Africa and India, which are already facing not only food shortages, but severe water shortages as well.
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When I read about the Economy of Abundance, I couldn't help but remember this article I read a few weeks back. I'll be posting more on this on my blog.
Op-Ed Playlist - Video Library - The New York Times - 0 views
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Course content quality vs. course content quantity. Remember AP classes? I loved them! This is a new perspective.
Learning in the Light of Faith - 0 views
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When I was just out of graduate school, I attended my first meeting of the American Physical Society in New York City. A highlight was a special event arranged by the conference organizers: the great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov had been invited to speak to us.
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Hour after hour he wrote down the stories he found in books in the university library about people protesting the invention of things like machines to spin thread and to weave cloth, steam-powered trains, automobiles, airplanes, etc. All of these advances were perceived by the general public either to be physically dangerous or to be a threat to the livelihoods of workers in trades that were about to be destroyed by these advances.
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when he started to write science fiction, he remembered all of this work he had done. So while his fellow writers were all rhapsodizing about the thrill of rockets and space travel (long before such things were possible), he wrote a story about how the local populace showed up at the launch site with torches and pitchforks in opposition to space travel. Years later, when rockets and travel outside of the earth’s atmosphere became possible, there were protests, and many of Mr. Asimov’s colleagues were astounded that he had predicted so far in advance that this would occur.
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Great Devotional Talk by Ross Spencer. Includes a great reference to "Future Shock".
The Pulitzer Prizes | Works - 0 views
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In response to Sean's bookmark about civil disobedience, I remembered this photograph from 2007. It shows an Israeli woman fighting against security forces sent to forcibly remove her and her family from illegal housing in the West Bank.
Hacker Makes the 5th of November One to Remember - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of High... - 1 views
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Example of a hack. Pretty funny
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That's great
Technology Live: Latest Tech News and Gadgets - USATODAY.com - 0 views
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Remember the lawsuit against google when Buzz came out? I am pretty sure that's what this is about. Interesting that they think someone facebook is behind it.
BBC News - How good software makes us stupid - 2 views
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Interesting article about how technology is making it easier for people to get by with less knowledge
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Great article! It brings up some interesting points. This is something that I have thought about a lot lately, because with a lot of technology options today we don't even have to remember information, we can simply save it and have easy access to it later...just not in our brains but on our phones, computers, etc. Also, a really great reference to some interesting research that has been done with taxi drivers.
Choosing a smart password - Official Gmail Blog - 3 views
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This is a informative, brief, and relevant blog post with good advice on how to protect your interent security
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It is interesting... often feel stuck in the delimea of making up a new password for each new website that I will have to remember or reuse an old password.
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Will physical books be gone in five years? - CNN.com - 4 views
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I sure hope that this does not come to pass! I love books and I get pretty tired of staring into a lightbulb to read. Great article, thanks for suggestion Mike.
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Remember when we talked about this a few weeks ago? Or was I talking with some friends? Either way, enjoy the article.
Plover: Freeing Stenography | Geek Feminism Blog - 0 views
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overlap between the stenographic and computer geek worlds is bafflingly small, considering how vital efficient text entry is to virtually every tech field
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on-commercial applications for stenographic technology.
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into any X window using a $45 off-the-shelf keyboard.
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Interview with someone who's created an open source stenograpic keyboard emulator for transcription services. I work in transcription so I think this is pretty stinking awesome.
Edward R. Murrow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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See It Now focused on a number of controversial issues in the 1950s, but it is best-remembered as the show that criticized McCarthyism and the Red Scare, contributing if not leading to the political downfall of Senator Joseph McCarthy. On March 9, 1954, Murrow, Friendly, and their news team produced a half-hour See It Now special entitled "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy".[9] Murrow used excerpts from McCarthy's own speeches and proclamations to criticize the senator and point out episodes where he had contradicted himself. Murrow knew full well that he was using the medium of television to attack a single man and expose him to nationwide scrutiny, and he was often quoted as having doubts about the methods he used for the report. Murrow and Friendly paid for their own newspaper advertisement for the program; they were not allowed to use CBS' money for the publicity campaign or even use the CBS logo. Nevertheless, the broadcast contributed to a nationwide backlash against McCarthy and is seen as a turning point in the history of television. It provoked tens of thousands of letters, telegrams and phone calls to CBS headquarters, running 15 to 1 in favor. In a retrospective produced for Biography, Friendly noted how truck drivers pulled up to Murrow on the street in subsequent days and shouted "Good show, Ed. Good show, Ed." Murrow offered McCarthy a chance to appear on See It Now to respond to the criticism. McCarthy accepted the invitation and made his appearance three weeks later,[10] but his rebuttal only served to further decrease his already fading popularity.[11] In the program following McCarthy's appearance, Murrow commented that the senator had "made no reference to any statements of fact that we made" and contested the personal attacks made by "the junior senator from Wisconsin" against himself.[12]
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