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JFloat health.com. 2013 Dec. Time for a Data Diet: These Are the Only Sources You Need to Stay Informed. 101 Signals: The 22 Thinkers, Websites, Explorers, and Feeds That Will Keep You in on All the Science News - Wired Science. Science Junk science is everywhere, and today’s research is often discredited tomorrow.

101 Signals: The 22 Thinkers, Websites, Explorers, and Feeds That Will Keep You in on All the Science News - Wired Science

This mix of academics, writers, and thinkers will help guide you through the day-to-day discoveries about the world we live in. If you’re drowning in noise, let WIRED’s 101 Signals be your lifeline. These are the core nutrients of a good data diet. *As long as you’re already getting your recommended daily allowance of WIRED’s blogs, Tumblrs, and feeds, of course. Download the OPML file to import our signals into your preferred news reader, or automatically add them to Digg Reader. Phil Plait covers more than astronomy—his skeptical, humanistic take on how science is practiced is keystone analysis. This Canadian is one of the ace-est of ace reporters covering new infectious diseases as they emerge.

The British particle physicist is a tireless advocate of science, with multiple TV shows and radio programs to his credit, as well as several chart-topping rock songs in the UK. Illustration: Nishant Choksi. 101 Signals: The Only Government and Security Experts You Need to Follow to Stay on Top of the News. Government & Security From domestic political campaigns to military campaigns in faraway lands to the attacks going on inside your computer right now, these reporters and researchers can be counted on to give you the news that matters about the state of law and security.

101 Signals: The Only Government and Security Experts You Need to Follow to Stay on Top of the News

If you’re drowning in noise, let WIRED’s 101 Signals be your lifeline. These are the core nutrients of a good data diet. 101 Signals: You Only Need to Listen to 16 People to Know What's Up in the Tech World. Consumer Technology.

101 Signals: You Only Need to Listen to 16 People to Know What's Up in the Tech World

101 Signals: The 18 People Who Will Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Design. Design To paraphrase Steve Jobs, design isn’t just what it looks like.

101 Signals: The 18 People Who Will Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Design

It’s how it works. These sources break down the way design works–what’s coming up, what’s going down, and what you need to pay attention to. If you’re drowning in noise, let WIRED’s 101 Signals be your lifeline. These are the core nutrients of a good data diet. Download the OPML file to import our signals into your preferred news reader, or automatically add them to Digg Reader.

MoMA architecture and design curator Antonelli sees design as a critical lens on the way we live. Arcangel, a conceptual artist who works in videogames and Internet trivia, is what happens when Marcel Duchamp grows up with a Game Boy. Geoff Manaugh’s strange stew of architectural history, urban planning insight, and sci-fi philosophizing is unmatched reading for understanding the cities we live in.

This is still where industrial designers go to hash out big challenges in actually shipping products. Illustration: Nishant Choksi. 101 Signals: Want to Know Business? These Are the Only People You Need to Follow. Business These are our favorite sources of news covering the world of business and finance.

101 Signals: Want to Know Business? These Are the Only People You Need to Follow

From macro­economics to microlending, these folks are all money when it comes to delivering high-value information.

2013_Oct ClimateCorp Premise

REGULATION Son of Wallis. 2013_0830 Yasuni C Perez Innovation Cluster S Park. 2013_0628 - Google Glass, Tech destroy Jobs etc. 2013_0607 - NSA, 3D Print. 2013_0422 - Bitcoin ABS. 2013_0405 - BoJ stimulus. 2013_0329 - pre-work. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of The World by Niall Ferguson Epsd. 1-5 (Full Documentary) The Global Economy Is A Giant Ponzi Scheme. Essential for any healthy economy is the people to power it.

The Global Economy Is A Giant Ponzi Scheme

And Europe, North America, Oceania — they’re all losing fuel. What will this mean for superpowers, national borders, and for xenophobia? Across once-tolerant Europe, political parties of the right are rising on a tide of bigotry. Geert Wilders of the Netherlands is the best-known example, but from Greece to Norway, from Austria to the UK, voters are flocking to far-right parties of prejudice. In America the political/racial divide has widened over the past decade or so. An interview with Jorgen Randers: ’2052′ – “It’s the story of humanity not rising to the occasion”

But I decided that for my own sake it would be interesting at least to know what will happen in sufficient detail for me to believe in it so that I could then decide whether I need to continue worrying for the future, and that was the very clear ambition 18 months ago, and now the book exists and it gives me in many ways great peace of mind because I believe in the forecast I have given there and in many ways it makes life much simpler I think, for a person who has been worrying about unsustainability for such a long time.

An interview with Jorgen Randers: ’2052′ – “It’s the story of humanity not rising to the occasion”

For people who haven’t read the book yet, can you tell us about 2052? What’s it going to be like? It’s a book that describes, as detailed as I can, what will happen from now until 2052, so it’s a story about world developments over the next 40 years. I ended up splitting the world into 5 regions. At a very aggregate level what the forecast says is that humanity will try very hard to achieve economic growth, income growth over the next 40 years. THE COUNT-UP TO 2052: AN OVERARCHING FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION. After the publication of the Korean, Chinese and Japanese language editions of “2052 – A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years”, the author, Club of Rome Member Jorgen Randers, gave talks in China, Korea and Japan in June 2013.

THE COUNT-UP TO 2052: AN OVERARCHING FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION.

There was an overwhelming media response in Asia. Inter alia, Jorgen Randers appeared on the Japanese Television program “Prime News 21″ (Fuji Television) on June 12th, 2013.