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Claims that autism is caused by vaccines containing thimerosal have been floored by increasing rates of autism in kids not exposed to the chemical Impossible explosion: The Buncefield blast explained FEATURE: 08:00 05 April 2012 Could trees and bushes have been to blame for the force of one of Europe's biggest peacetime explosions?
Breathingearth - CO2, birth & death rates by country, simulated real-time
The Breathing Earth simulation Welcome to Breathing Earth . This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates. Please remember that this is just a simulation. Although the CO2 emission, birth rate and death rate data used in Breathing Earth comes from reputable sources, data that measures things on such a massive scale can never be 100% accurate. Please note however that the CO2 emission levels shown here are much more likely to be too low than they are to be too high.001
Since the beginning of recorded time, and probably since long before that, the human body has been highly politicized, particularly in the areas of sexuality and reproduction. With the emergence of biotechnology, genetic modification, and the further refinement of psychopharmacology, we can expect further political polarization around the ethical issues these new options will raise. For example: should we genetically enhance our offspring in accordance with our cultural values, thereby significantly shaping their future in unpredictable ways before they’re even born?
Big Think | Blogs, Articles and Videos from the World's Top Thinkers and Leaders
Superstruct was a massively multiplayer forecasting game, created by the Institute for the Future, and played by more than 8000 citizen future-forecasters from September - November 2008.
Welcome to the Superstruct Game Archive
Greetings EVOKE agents, Over the summer we completed another round of EVOKE for almost 40 classrooms with players from Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Morroco, Nepal, New Zealand, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, Taiwan, Uganda, USA, and Zambia. During this phase players created over 2,000 new blog posts. Congratulations to all new agents for sharing [...] Greetings EVOKE agents. Are you ready to re-engage? Are you ready to welcome new agents to the network?
Urgent Evoke - A crash course in changing the world.
Sign up now for VIP access to SuperBetter! I’m thrilled to announce that a commercial version of SuperBetter — including both an “OTC”, or over-the-counter, and an “Rx”, or prescription version of the game — is currently in development with my new venture Social Chocolate . SuperBetter was originally designed to treat concussions, or mild traumatic brain injuries (MTBIs.) (To find out more about the history of SuperBetter, visit the original game archives .)
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Institute For The Future
On April 3-5, IFTF and the Rockefeller Foundation invited people all over the world to join the Catalysts for Change game and imagine thousands of paths out of poverty. More than 1,600 people from 79 countries responded to the call to action. And after 48 hours of gameplay, they had built long chain reactions of ideas that added up to 18,160 ideas for ways to catalyze change in poor, vulnerable, or marginalized communities.