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An animated map of global wind and weather. Spurious Correlations. 27 Science Fictions That Became Science Facts In 2012. We may never have our flying cars, but the future is here.

27 Science Fictions That Became Science Facts In 2012

From creating fully functioning artificial leaves to hacking the human brain, science made a lot of breakthroughs this year. 1. eLearning, Education Technology and Teacher Blog - InformED : 825 Free Online Courses from Top Universities. Advertisment Take online courses from the world’s top universities for free.

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Below, you will find 1,700 free online courses from universities like Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and more. Our site also features collections of Online Certificate Programs and Online Degree & Mini-Degree Programs. Note: This page includes a lot of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). If you want to enroll in a free version of a MOOC, please select the “Full Course, No Certificate” (edX) or “Audit” (Coursera) option. Humanities & Social Sciences Art & Art History Courses Classics Courses Communication Courses Economics & Finance Courses. These 31 charts will destroy your faith in humanity.

Earlier this week, Rob Wile of Business Insider posted his graph-heavy opus: "31 Charts That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity.

These 31 charts will destroy your faith in humanity

" Naturally, we here at Wonkblog were all eager to see the results. But we'd quibble a bit with Wile's interpretations of the data. His charts all struck us as horrible news. So we're re-analyzing them here with the proper, gloom-heavy spin: 1) Inter-state wars are on the rise since 2002. Factory-in-a-Day project aims to deploy work-ready robots within 24 hours. Industrial robots have proven useful in reducing production costs in large factories, with major enterprises enlisting their services to execute repetitive tasks.

Factory-in-a-Day project aims to deploy work-ready robots within 24 hours

The Factory-in-a-Day project, which kicked off in October, aims to also make robotic technology beneficial to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), by developing adaptable robots that can be integrated with workplace systems within 24 hours. Until now, SMEs have not been well suited to the benefits of robotic technology as, compared to enterprises of larger size, they rely on a more agile workforce made up of few large machines and many humans completing simple repetitive tasks. Common short-duration batch operations in SMEs, such as packing or checking the quality of seasonal fruit, only have small production periods. As developing and training a robot to execute these tasks can take weeks or even months, the expense generally outweighs the money saved in labor costs.

Most Exciting Technology/Company At EVS27. Cars Published on December 8th, 2013 | by Zachary Shahan There were some pretty wicked cars at EVS27, cool wireless charging technology, Brammo electric motorcycles, and more, but the technology offering that excited me the most was what EP Tender is looking to bring to market.

Most Exciting Technology/Company At EVS27

Can We Create a Network of 100 Sharing Cities by 2015? Fifty cities around the world began mapping their shared resources in October and November during Shareable's worldwide Map Jam.

Can We Create a Network of 100 Sharing Cities by 2015?

This is just the beginning of the Sharing Cities Network - an ambitious project to create one hundred sharing cities by 2015. A Sharing City is a city where housing, food, transportation, energy, and money are locally owned and democratically governed. Where we create our own meaningful and dignified work together and creatively play in community centers, urban farms, makerspaces and art collectives. Promoting Sustainable Lives & Communities. Vending Machines. Scientific Method Educational Videos. Contact Support. Home - Springer. Scientific Method Educational Videos. Watch Free Documentaries Online. Scientific Method.

The Collective Evolution II: The Human Experience. 'The Collective Evolution II: The Human Experience' is a documentary focused on showing each of the dimensions to the experience we call life.

The Collective Evolution II: The Human Experience

Its intention is to provide the viewer with the tools and understanding needed to step out of current limitations and instead experience the infinite potentiality we are all capable of. Stop Railing on the Unemployed; Our Problems Are Structural. – 27 June, 2013Posted in: Articles, Equality In western cultures it is all to easy to finger point and rail on the unemployed.

Stop Railing on the Unemployed; Our Problems Are Structural

Due to us living within the confines of a work to earn to pay to live system we find ourselves in a position of needing some form of employment. This sets us up into an environment of structural violence and desperate competition against each other in class warfare, which is a race to the bottom to see who can accumulate the most before we die. So long as we operate under this antiquated and outmoded system we will have a certain level of unemployment that is only likely to grow as our population expands. Currently there are nowhere near enough full-time employment opportunities and part time jobs not only result in underemployment, but still leave people dependent on the social welfare system. List of 9 free educational websites.

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List of 9 free educational websites

With internet, access to free education is possible, but with increasingly restrictive copyright laws and incompatible technologies its potential is hindered. These 31 charts will destroy your faith in humanity. Watch Free Science Documentaries Online at www.videoneat.com. Recommended Books and DVDs. Latest Technology News. Cleantech News — Solar, Wind, EV News (#1 Source) 10 TED Talks on predicting the future. Art Playlist: 9 talks that give a new view of nature Most people rarely feel compelled to stare at grains of sand.

10 TED Talks on predicting the future

But when those same grains are magnified hundreds of times and rendered in three dimensions, they appear like individual pieces of colored glass crafted by a skilled artist — no two pieces the same. MyScienceAcademy. Artificial Intelligence News. Artificial Intelligence News & Articles. Science Daily: News & Articles in Science, Health, Environment & Technology. Sites anglophones. Robotics and Automation: 06/24/11. Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence.

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