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- Canadian Oil Sands Flyover
An aerial/telephoto exploration of the Canadian Oil Sands operations. Two trillion barrels of oil in the ground. Pyramids of sulfur and coke. Lakes of oil stretching to the horizon. At $200k/yr, it's easy to understand how one might get roped in, gold rush style. - Clean energy will unfortunately be political
Conservative thinktanks step up attacks against Obama's clean energy strategy, as revealed by ALEC bills and other PR documents. This morning at the World Renewable Energy Forum, in response to a (long winded) question about how we might re-frame the energy discussion in light of the unfortunate hay which was made from Solyndra's failure, US Energy Secretary Stephen Chu re-iterated that clean energy should not be a political issue -- that it's just common sense. That may be true, but it doesn't mean it will remain apolitical. As Pericles once said... "Just because you do not take an interest in - The Dangerous World of Underground Chemistry
A look at the increasingly outsourced world of underground pharma. Domestic black-market chemists handle R&D and distribution, and the actual manufacturing is done in China. Seems that way with everything. - Google Street View for building energy efficiency
Essess is doing drive-by thermal imaging in high density urban areas across the US, hoping to target possible building energy efficiency opportunities. Another company is using urban satellite imagery to choose the best rooftops for solar energy siting. Big Brother may be watching you... but at least occasionally he's got the right idea. - The Neapolitan Mob’s Most Dangerous Family
A character sketch of Paolo di Lauro, one of the Neapolitan Camorra's former leaders. Southern Italy it seems, like some parts of Mexico, operates with more than one quasi-state organization governing in parallel. A tacit negotiation between the official and unofficial systems, which sometimes erupts into violence -- ironically, at those times when the so-called "criminal" organizations have become weak.
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- Incredible photo essay on the Athabasca Tar Sands operations: businessinsider.com/canadian-oil-s… 5 days ago
- At a great talk about individual cities as the right scale for renewable energy systems innovation at #wref2012 1 week ago
- Heard rural Wyoming folk talking local Chinese coal/gas investments, hacking of their SCADA water system. I live in a @GreatDismal future. 1 week ago
- The tar sands have to stay in the ground. Stop the pipeline… again. And again. And again, if necessary. act.350.org/sign/kxl/ 3 months ago
- Roughly 2/3 of all the humans who have ever reached the age of 65 are alive today. 4 months ago
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Sequencing Risks
A reporter from Bloomberg joins the PGP, only to discover that he carries a rare and potentially pathogenic acquired mutation, found in people with blood disorders. He doesn’t know how to deal with it, and neither do the doctors, really. … Continue reading
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Tagged genetics, genome, george church, personal, pgp, project, research, science, sequencing
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PLoS ONE: The Network of Global Corporate Control
The Network of Global Corporate Control, as revealed by a research group at ETH Zurich (kind of the Swiss MIT). Their core finding: a densely connected “super entity” of 147 corporations, about 75% of which are financial intermediaries, has an … Continue reading
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Tagged banksters, collapse, corporations, corruption, crisis, finance, financial, graph, illuminati, network, non-linear, plos, research, science, zurich ETH
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The capitalist network that runs the world
A team at the Swiss equivalent of MIT has revealed a dense knot of power and ownership interconnections within a particular subset of the world’s transnational corporations. It will come as no surprise that these companies are overwhelming financial firms… … Continue reading
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Tagged bailout, bank, banksters, capitalism, corporations, economics, networks, non-linear, research, science
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Solving protein structures with social computation
In just 16 days gamers solved a protein structure that had eluded computational methods for a decade. Distributed social computing? What other computationally difficult problems are susceptible to this kind of approach?
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Tagged biology, computation, distributed, folding, foldit, game, protein, research, science, virus
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Discounted cashflow analysis of scientific programming
Software Carpentry does a little math describing the value of teaching scientists how to build good software. Even with very pessimistic assumptions, it’s clearly worthwhile. With realistic assumptions, it’s a frigging research bonanza. WTF? Why don’t advisers and administrators make … Continue reading
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Tagged programming, research, science, software, technology, tools
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Links for the week of December 3rd, 2010
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Tagged activism, apocalypse, architecture, assange, assassination, carbon, cars, climate, coal, design, energy, government, greenpeace, internet, iran, israel, law, lifecycle, nuclear, passivhaus, politics, privacy, rail, research, science, stuxnet, sustainability, technology, terrorism, transparency, transportation, travel, wikileaks
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Links for the week of November 19th, 2010
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Tagged culture, family, love, marriage, pew, relationships, research, society, statistics, usa
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Links for the week of August 13th, 2010
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Tagged architecture, argentina, data, dumpster, energy, freegan, government, maps, money, nasa, NIH, photos, policy, research, science, sustainability, war
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Links for the week of June 26th, 2010
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Tagged academia, bailout, banks, caltech, cars, chemistry, cities, economics, education, election, fish, food, government, gradschool, greenpeace, iceland, japan, jobs, kagan, phd, politics, research, science, scotus, sharing, society, sustainability, technology, transparency, transportation, tuna
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