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White House to Introduce Climate Data Website - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "Robert M. Pestronk, executive director of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, said he hoped the new climate data tools would help municipal officials plan for climate change. "Local health officials are on the front lines of preparing for and addressing the health effects of climate change - from reduced air quality to extreme weather to climate-sensitive infectious disease like West Nile virus and Lyme disease," he said. The website, Mr. Pestronk said, "will provide valuable data to guide and support local health departments in their efforts to ensure the health and safety of people in their communities.""
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Falling for the Future | Mute - 1 views

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    Fred Turner's From Counterculture to Cyberculture begins with the intriguing question: how can one account for the remarkable transvaluation of the computer from a Cold War accessory to omnicide and 'soul murder' into a convivial tool of personal liberation, all within 30 years? Specifically, in Berkeley in 1964, 'disembodiment - that is, the transformation of the self into data on an IBM card - marked the height of dehumanization', while for the digital utopians of the 1990s, 'it marked the route to new forms of equality and transformation.'
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Flavorwire » Charts and Diagrams Drawn by Famous Authors - 0 views

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    Interesting snapshots of data visualization created by famous authors including Kerouac, Heller, Bronte, Auden, Faulkner and others.
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The Multiplicity and Complexity of Phenomena | The Big Picture - 0 views

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    "Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer the conversation into irrelevant, off topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous."
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