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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… 20 minutes ago
- At a great talk about individual cities as the right scale for renewable energy systems innovation at #wref2012 3 days ago
- Heard rural Wyoming folk talking local Chinese coal/gas investments, hacking of their SCADA water system. I live in a @GreatDismal future. 3 days 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. 3 months ago
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Tag Archives: technology
The Missing Wikipedians
An interesting analysis of the cultural biases of the Wikipedia. As participation by the developing world increases, we need to come up with a better way of assessing “notability”. Especially with English, shared language is not shared culture or context. … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, developing, globalization, internet, technology, tools, wikipedia
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Education will not be fixed, it will evolve
It seems like there have been calls to “fix” our education system in the US for decades. The Apollo program’s Saturn V engines were largely built by young engineers and scientists. Their educations were influenced by the Sputnik-inspired National Defense … Continue reading
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Tagged anki, education, engineering, fablab, hackspace, khanacademy, kids, learning, online, policy, school, science, technology
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Anki: intelligent digital flashcards
Aaron recently pointed me at Anki, an open-source flashcard system. I’m using it to refresh my Spanish language skills, but it’s a very generalized system that one can use to remember just about anything. You create linked “facts” (n-sided flash … Continue reading
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Tagged education, language, memory, spanish, SRS, study, technology, tools, vocabulary
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Hackable Cars
A study of the security (or lack thereof) inherent in today’s highly computerized vehicles. Not much better than voting machines overall. We’re connecting dangerous things to our networks much faster than we’re learning how to keep them from blowing up. … Continue reading
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Tagged cars, hacking, sabotage, security, technology, terrorism, transportation
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Links for the week of December 9th, 2010
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Tagged architecture, cars, china, climate, coal, design, economics, energy, gm, government, history, india, internet, journalism, law, media, newspapers, nytimes, passivhaus, policy, politics, search, streetcars, sustainability, system:filetype:pdf, system:media:document, technology, transparency, transportation, usa, wikileaks
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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 26th, 2010
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Tagged australia, bicycle, boulder, cars, china, cities, climate, coal, economics, electricity, energy, infrastructure, netherlands, planning, policy, politics, safety, sharing, suburbia, sustainability, technology, trade, transportation, urban, wto, zipcar
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Links for the week of October 5th, 2010
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Tagged android, california, cars, cities, economics, google, green, information, law, parking, phone, policy, privacy, propaganda, sharing, sustainability, technology, transportation, zipcar
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Links for the week of August 20th, 2010
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Tagged film, globalization, government, history, law, money, photos, politics, russia, sunlightfoundation, technology, tools, transparency, war
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Links for the week of August 8th, 2010
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Tagged bicycle, film, guatemala, poverty, sustainability, technology, volunteer
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