Vast Freshwater Reserves Found Beneath the Oceans. A new study, published December 5 in the international scientific journal Nature, reveals that an estimated half a million cubic kilometres of low-salinity water are buried beneath the seabed on continental shelves around the world. The water, which could perhaps be used to eke out supplies to the world's burgeoning coastal cities, has been located off Australia, China, North America and South Africa. "The volume of this water resource is a hundred times greater than the amount we've extracted from the Earth's sub-surface in the past century since 1900," says lead author Dr Vincent Post (pictured) of the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT) and the School of the Environment at Flinders University.
"Knowing about these reserves is great news because this volume of water could sustain some regions for decades. " Dr Post says that groundwater scientists knew of freshwater under the seafloor, but thought it only occurred under rare and special conditions. BioPen: A handheld 3D printer for surgeons. A handheld ‘bio pen’ developed in the labs of the University of Wollongong (UOW) will allow surgeons to design customised implants on-site and at the time of surgery. The BioPen, developed by researchers from the UOW-headquartered Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES), will give surgeons greater control over where the materials are deposited while also reducing the time the patient is in surgery by delivering live cells and growth factors directly to the site of injury, accelerating the regeneration of functional bone and cartilage.
The BioPen works similar to 3D printing methods by delivering cell material inside a biopolymer such as alginate, a seaweed extract, protected by a second, outer layer of gel material. The two layers of gel are combined in the pen head as it is extruded onto the bone surface and the surgeon ‘draws’ with the ink to fill in the damaged bone section. CWRU engineering researchers report nanoscale energy-efficient switching devices at IEDM 2013. By relentlessly miniaturizing a pre-World War II computer technology, and combining this with a new and durable material, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have built nanoscale switches and logic gates that operate more energy-efficiently than those now used by the billions in computers, tablets and smart phones.
Electromechanical switches were the building blocks of electronics before the solid-state transistor was developed during the war. A version made from silicon carbide, at the tiniest of scales, snaps on and off like a light switch, and with none of the energy-wasting current leakage that plagues the smallest electronics today. The scientists report their findings today at the International Electron Devices Meeting in Washington D.C. The tiny switch's moving part is only about one cubic micron in volume, more than a thousand times smaller than devices made in today's mainstream microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).
Tina He, Prof. What Is The New Development Paradigm? The Light Bulb Conspiracy. This book appears very interesting! "You are Not... - Daniele Mancinelli. Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system | Science. Peter Higgs, the British physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boson, believes no university would employ him in today's academic system because he would not be considered "productive" enough. The emeritus professor at Edinburgh University, who says he has never sent an email, browsed the internet or even made a mobile phone call, published fewer than 10 papers after his groundbreaking work, which identified the mechanism by which subatomic material acquires mass, was published in 1964. He doubts a similar breakthrough could be achieved in today's academic culture, because of the expectations on academics to collaborate and keep churning out papers.
He said: "It's difficult to imagine how I would ever have enough peace and quiet in the present sort of climate to do what I did in 1964. " Speaking to the Guardian en route to Stockholm to receive the 2013 Nobel prize for science, Higgs, 84, said he would almost certainly have been sacked had he not been nominated for the Nobel in 1980. It's The Greatest, Must See Drama of All Time and You Just Might Be Missing It.
Nato economica: giudici scavalcati, il business sarà legge. The lies behind this transatlantic trade deal | George Monbiot. Panic spreads through the European commission like ferrets in a rabbit warren. Its plans to create a single market incorporating Europe and the United States, progressing so nicely when hardly anyone knew, have been blown wide open. All over Europe people are asking why this is happening; why we were not consulted; for whom it is being done. They have good reason to ask. The commission insists that its Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership should include a toxic mechanism called investor-state dispute settlement. This mechanism could threaten almost any means by which governments might seek to defend their citizens or protect the natural world.
No longer able to keep this process quiet, the European commission has instead devised a strategy for lying to us. The message is that the trade deal is about "delivering growth and jobs" and will not "undermine regulation and existing levels of protection in areas like health, safety and the environment". Quite right too. Susan George: poteri occulti, la Terra è sotto scacco. Se avete a cuore il vostro cibo, la vostra salute e la stessa sicurezza finanziaria, la vostra e quella della vostra famiglia, così come le tasse che pagate, lo stato del pianeta e della stessa democrazia, ci sono pessime notizie: un gruppo di golpisti ha preso il potere e ormai domina il pianeta.
Legalmente: perché le nuove leggi che imbrigliano i popoli, i governi e gli Stati se le sono fatte loro, per servire i loro smisurati interessi, piegando le democrazie con l’aiuto di “maggiordomi” travestiti da politici. La grande novità si chiama: “ascesa di autorità illegittima”. Parola di Susan George, notissima sociologa franco-statunitense, già impegnata nel movimento no-global e al vertice di associazioni mondiali come Greenpeace. I nuovi oligarchi, spiega la George nell’intervento pronunciato al Festival Internazionale di Ferrara, ottobre 2013, possono agire attraverso le lobby o oscuri “comitati di esperti”, attraverso organismi ad hoc che ottengono riconoscimenti ufficiali. Will 3D Printing change everything? The Money Myth: Jem Bendell at TEDxTransmedia2011.
A billion-year storage medium that could outlive the human race. A QR code etched in tungsten and embedded in graphene oxide on an optical disc Credit: University of Twente) Researcher Dr. Jeroen de Vries from the University of Twente MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology suggests we could store data for one million to one billion years, using a new storage medium based on tungsten and graphene oxide. He imagines two possible scenarios: Disaster has devastated the earth and society must rebuild the worldWe need to create a legacy for future intelligent life that evolves on Earth or comes from other worlds. Optical-disc information carrier de Vries has developed a novel optical-disc information carrier that he says can store such information for extremely long periods of time, using etching techniques.
Left: scanning electron micrograph of the cross-section of the encapsulated lines in the disc test sample; right: scanning electron micrograph of the sample after 1 hour at 200 degrees Celsius (credit: Jeroen de Vries et al. The ultimate aging test References: What is The Free World Charter? [Full Version] Nuclear testing.wmv. Stampa 3D di metallo, open source e a quattro soldi. The High Price of Materialism. Economic Calculation in a Natural Law / RBE, Peter Joseph, The Zeitgeist Movement, Berlin. APATHY: It's not the Fluoride. 5 insane stories from Black Friday (with bonus footage of mayhem from past years) | World. For Americans, Black Friday shopping is a national pastime. After gorging on turkey and pumpkin pie, thousands of people fill the malls, and form long lines outside of big box stores hoping to get a good deal on essentials like towels, video games, DVDs, waffle makers, Xboxes, PS3s, electronics and more.
You know - the essentials. And for the most part, things stay pretty calm; well, as calm as things can go when you’re battling for $1.28 towels. But when prices go low enough, some bargain hunters can get a little crazy. We’re talking guns, cops, violence - it’s enough to make you want to sit the shopping frenzy out. Here, we take a look back at five horrific stories from Black Friday, with bonus video of the craziness from past years.
For a detailed list of the deaths and injuries that have occurred during Black Friday shopping, visit blackfridaydeathcount.com. 1.Two people shot outside Walmart over parking space (2012) Everyone knows mall parking is struggle starting on Nov. 1. Zeitgeist Moving Forward - Its a Value System Disorder. This Humanlike Robot Is Super Scary. We Have the Renewable Energy We Need to Power the World—So What's Stopping Us? Photo Credit: PhotographyByMK/ Shutterstock.com November 8, 2013 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The environment is one bad news story after another. The bright side is that we aren’t being blindsided by an unknown enemy: Our relentless burning of fossil fuels is the big thing pushing us toward the brink.
That’s why it’s great that there are people like Mark Z. Jacobson was recently on the “David Letterman Show,” where he proclaimed that we have enough wind and solar to power the world. Is he right? A Renewable World In 2009 Jacobson and Mark A. “Our plan calls for millions of wind turbines, water machines and solar installations,” they wrote. Their plan, which would provide energy for everything—transportation, heating/cooling, electricity, and industry—would have 51 percent of the energy coming from wind, specifically 3.8 million 5-megawatt wind turbines. That’s the plan, anyway. Geniale spot belga sull'ingenuità della gente riguardo i propri dati in pasto ai social network. Rise of the Barter Economy in TorontoCollaborative Consumption. With the Canadian debt-to-income ratio hitting a record high of 163% and average consumer debt of $27,000, it’s no surprise that more Canadians are utilising barter—a 12 billion dollar industry in North America.
The Toronto barter scene, for example, is buzzing as swappers exchange everything under the sun: financial consultations for hotel stays, photography for self-defence classes, graphic design for investment help, a weekend first-aid course for home-baked gluten-free muffins and even fiddleheads for Feng Shui sessions. The creative possibilities are vast and enthusiasm around the concept of swapping—online and offline—is growing quickly. According to Toronto Life’s “The Money Issue” this “new wave of alternative financial thinking” is driven by the “uncertainties of a cash economy,” and many local success stories have emerged: “People are financially savvy.
It’s all about striking a balance between cash and barter, enabling them to “work in tandem” to satisfy your needs. Orthodox economists have failed their own market test | Seumas Milne. From any rational point of view, orthodox economics is in serious trouble. Its champions not only failed to foresee the greatest crash for 80 years, but insisted such crises were a thing of the past. More than that, some of its leading lights played a key role in designing the disastrous financial derivatives that helped trigger the meltdown in the first place.
Plenty were paid propagandists for the banks and hedge funds that tipped us off their speculative cliff. Acclaimed figures in a discipline that claims to be scientific hailed a "great moderation" of market volatility in the runup to an explosion of unprecedented volatility. Others, such as the Nobel prizewinner Robert Lucas, insisted that economics had solved the "central problem of depression prevention". Any other profession that had proved so spectacularly wrong and caused such devastation would surely be in disgrace. Many of their students, though, have had enough. But change it must. Truffa Mondiale Banchieri - Signoraggio. Questo articolo è un tentativo, seppur limitato, di spiegare una delle più grandi truffe, se non la più colossale, realizzata a nostro carico: il Signoraggio monetario. Il compito non sarà facile per due motivi principali: primo, perché dovremo immergerci completamente dentro un sistema economico-finanziario di per sé poco chiaro, per non dire oscuro, e secondo, forse il più difficile, sgombrare la mente da tutti i condizionamenti che ci hanno mirabilmente inculcato.
Detto questo, siete pronti per questo viaggio ? Un viaggio lungo oltre tre secoli, che dalla misteriosa e occulta Londra del XVII secolo, ci porterà a Francoforte nel XXI secolo, per assimilare il segreto più nascosto: la truffa delle truffe. Tutto inizia il 27 luglio 1694, quando il massone e banchiere londinese William Paterson fonda con alcuni fratelli la prima banca centrale al mondo: la Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, meglio conosciuta come Banca d'Inghilterra.
Perché è importante questa banca ? » memmt.info COSTRUIRE UN'ECONOMIA SALVA VITE, SALVA STATO, SALVA DEMOCRAZIA. Sovereign Money Creation vs Modernising Money » Positive Money. There are currently two sources of money into the UK economy:Money created by banks, when they make loans. This currently makes up the majority of money in the economy.Money created by the Bank of England on behalf of the government.
Currently this makes up a tiny percentage of the money in the economy. The problem we currently have is that the government isn’t willing to use its power to create money in the public interest. Instead, it relies on the same banks that caused the financial crisis to create money. So right now, we see banks still reducing their lending to businesses, whilst increasing their lending for mortgages and business. The differences between Sovereign Money Creation and Modernising Money (the book) In Sovereign Money: Paving the Way for a Sustainable Recovery, we don’t go quite so far.
Ultimately, we still believe that the economy would be more stable and society better off if we completely remove the power that banks have to create money. BNL presenta il primo evento educational di Hello bank! Passaparola - Lavorare per vivere e non vivere per lavorare - di Angelo Consoli. ENOUGHNESS: Restoring Balance to the Economy in the Most Awesome Way Ever. La caduta dell'Italia nel 2014. Dan O'Neill - Enough is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources.
Changemaker MOOC - Social Entrepreneurship. About this course Einschreibung weiterhin möglich Auch wenn der erste Durchlauf des Changemaker MOOC offiziell vorbei ist, sind die Inhalte weiterhin offen zugänglich für alle interessierten Menschen, nicht nur Studierende. Also, schreib Dich ein und lege los mit der Planung Deines Changeprojekts! Be the change you want to see! Im Changemaker MOOC lernst du, wie du aus einer Idee ein Projekt zur Lösung eines gesellschaftlichen Problems machst. Wir zeigen dir, wie du unternehmerische Ansätze nutzen kannst, um gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen zu lösen, egal ob du ein Projekt in den Bereichen Gesellschaft, Umwelt, Bildung oder Kultur realisieren willst.
Schritt für Schritt zum eigenen Projekt Der Kurs führt dich Schritt für Schritt zur Erstellung eines eigenen Projektkonzepts. Praxis statt Theorie Zentrale Lerninhalte werden in Form kurzer Videos vermittelt. Mit anderen Kursteilnehmern zusammenarbeiten Der Kurs bietet dir vielfältige Möglichkeiten zur Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Teilnehmern. How Science Is Telling Us All To Revolt. Republished from newstatesman.com By Naomi Klein In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held annually in San Francisco.
This year’s conference had some big-name participants, from Ed Stone of Nasa’s Voyager project, explaining a new milestone on the path to interstellar space, to the film-maker James Cameron, discussing his adventures in deep-sea submersibles. But it was Werner’s own session that was attracting much of the buzz. It was titled “Is Earth F**ked?” (full title: “Is Earth F**ked? What scientists and experts are saying, says Klein, is "that there is still time to avoid catastrophic warming, but not within the rules of capitalism as they are currently constructed.
There was one dynamic in the model, however, that offered some hope. Some scientists need no convincing. That’s heavy stuff. . © 2013 The New Statesman. How Economic Growth Has Become Anti-Life. How the FLOK Society Brings a Commons Approach to Ecuador’s Economy. Il convegno "Science and the Future" - una questione di buon senso.
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Dutch King Willem-Alexander declares the end of the welfare state - Europe - World. B. Fuller speaking on World Game, Boston College [Tape A] : Buckminster Fuller Stanford Archive. Economia della decrescita: Serge Latouche spiegato in un minuto. Facebook. Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization. Facebook. Contour Crafting: Automated Construction: Behrokh Khoshnevis at TEDxOjai. Our money system guarantees that inequality will get worse - Here is the evidence » Positive Money.
‘Spending more time outside is a really political act’ Auto produzione casalinga di biogas con il Digestore Compatto biogas. Petrolio addio! Nelle Marche la prima casa off-grid autonoma e scollegata dalle reti. La Puglia va a tutta canapa! | Territorio. POSTO FISSO: IL SISTEMA E' FALLITO - SIMONE PEROTTI. NM13-Donnie-Maclurcan. Pubblicato "Crowdfunding World 2013": Report, analisi e trend della raccolta fondi online. Economia e debito: tutte le menzogne che vi stanno raccontando. Hidden Secrets of Money - Free Video Series on Money Secrets. Grounded: a "Groundbreaking" Documentary About The Healing Power Of The Earth (2013)
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Tomorrow's cities: How the Venus Project is redesigning the future. How to Host a Great Sharing Event. Germany Breaks Monthly Solar Generation Record, ~6.5 Times More Than US Best. Ritorno alla Canapa: Storia della criminalizzazione dell’oro verde e del suo auspicabile risveglio – di Matteo Benetti | CETRI-TIRES. You Know a Guy Wearing a Sweater Like This Has Something Amazing to Say.