Public Banking - Public Good (25min) A new way to visualize General Relativity. Slavoj Žižek: Why There Are No Viable Political Alternatives to Unbridled Capitalism. Voting doesn’t need to be so hard. Let’s redesign it. Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy. What does this mean for the nation’s political-economic divide? Even with a new president and political party soon in charge of the White House, the nation’s economic standoff continues.
Notwithstanding President-elect Joe Biden’s solid popular vote victory, last week’s election failed to deliver the kind of transformative reorientation of the nation’s political-economic map that Democrats (and some Republicans) had hoped for. The data confirms that the election sharpened the striking geographic divide between red and blue America, instead of dispelling it.
Most notably, the stark economic rift that Brookings Metro documented after Donald Trump’s shocking 2016 victory has grown even wider. In 2016, we wrote that the 2,584 counties that Trump won generated just 36% of the country’s economic output, whereas the 472 counties Hillary Clinton carried equated to almost two-thirds of the nation’s aggregate economy. A similar analysis for last week’s election shows these trends continuing, albeit with a different political outcome. Michio Kaku: Feedback loops are creating consciousness. Rhodes Center Podcast: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? If we want more companies like Patagonia, we need laws to enforce it. Eutopia (Introduction) Dr. Rupert Sheldrake - Morphogenetic Fields of Body and Mind - Quantum University. We are approaching the most consequential technological disruption in. Addressing the Craft Labor Shortage - Water Design-Build Council. The ‘bazooka’: Modern Monetary Theory in action – Peter Bofinger.
32 BS Words to Describe Your Company Culture. Jonathan Haidt, Authors at Google. Use uncertainty to leverage the power of your predictive brain. Degrowth and MMT: A thought experiment — Jason Hickel. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is getting a lot of attention these days, thanks in large part to the excellent work of Stephanie Kelton and Nathan Tankus, two of the movement’s most effective communicators.
Over the past few weeks a number of people inspired by their work have asked me whether there is scope for thinking about degrowth from a MMT perspective. My answer: definitely. In fact, the two belong together. Home - BBC Future. How does design drive new ventures? The 24 best podcasts to make you smarter - BBC Future. Everything is connected. The Dark Side of UV Light: What Spores Are Left Behind? - Halosil International : Halosil International. HealthcareOctober 14, 2019 Healthcare facilities such as hospitals, clinics, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), hospice homes, and nursing homes are breeding grounds for pathogens.
Filled with immunocompromised patients susceptible to infectious materials, they are also home to a high number of healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs). In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about one in 31 hospital patients has at least one HAI on any given day. Additionally, per the 2015 HAI Hospital Prevalence survey, there was an estimated 687,000 HAIs in U.S. acute care hospitals in 2015 and 72,000 HAI-associated deaths. In an attempt to lower infection rates, a number of solutions have surfaced that eliminate harmful pathogens, such as those involving ultraviolet (UV) light methods. If UV light systems fail to eliminate pathogens, why are they so widely used today? 1. 2. 3. Look on the Bright Side of Whole Room Disinfection Tags: UV light. Will the Outdoors Become the New Classroom of the COVID Era?
Schools are reopening, and there’s pressure for teachers and students to wean themselves off remote learning and return to their classrooms.
Politicians, working parents and pandemic skeptics aren’t the only ones demanding a return to normal learning. How America can leave fossil fuels behind, in one chart. Mass timber is the future of architecture. But can it survive a world.
HCD -> UXdesign. Hiking Food etc. Curious. Foodie Incubator Coming to Sacramento. Physicists hunt for room-temperature superconductors that could revolutionize the world's energy system. Waste heat is all around you.
On a small scale, if your phone or laptop feels warm, that’s because some of the energy powering the device is being transformed into unwanted heat. On a larger scale, electric grids, such as high power lines, lose over 5% of their energy in the process of transmission. In an electric power industry that generated more than US$400 billion in 2018, that’s a tremendous amount of wasted money. Globally, the computer systems of Google, Microsoft, Facebook and others require enormous amounts of energy to power massive cloud servers and data centers. Even more energy, to power water and air cooling systems, is required to offset the heat generated by these computers. Where does this wasted heat come from? Superconductors are materials that address this problem by allowing energy to flow efficiently through them without generating unwanted heat. Understanding the mechanism Simply put, superconductivity occurs when two electrons bind together at low temperatures. Sam Harris Life Advice Will Change Your Future (MUST WATCH)
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