as well as insults and death threats. oewe know where you live, his detractors taunt. Jones is finished:
A religious war is raging between alarmists and skeptics, and it threatens to consume levelheaded climatologists.
But it is a critical conflict because it revolves around something as massive as the total restructuring of industrial society,
head of the German Research center for Geosciences in Potsdam near Berlin and the president of the German Academy of Science and Engineering, believes that basic values are now under threat. oescientists should never be wedded as to their theories that they are no longer capable of refuting them in the light of new findings,
A Climate Rebel Takes on the Establishment One man notes with particular satisfaction how Phil Jones
Under the pressure of Mcintyres attacks, Jones had to admit something incredible: He had deleted his notes on how he performed the homogenization.
and are more resistant to microbial attack, Spokas said. Lab research, done by him and others, suggests that these bonds have the potential to hold fast for anywhere between hundreds to hundreds of thousands of years.
Starting at 8 a m. in her Yucaipa, Calif.,home office and ending as late as 10:30 p m.,she struggled to keep all her mini-shifts straight.
Her day starts and ends in her home office, often encompassing five mini-shifts of work lasting one to three hours.
You dont realize that it is involved in a historic battle with plants for access to its life blood.
And so, an army of engineers and entrepreneurs is rushing in, hoping to do to the payment world what has already been done to the music,
Mitchell Wolfe, an ecommerce veteran who ran Compaqs Canadian Internet sales team before moving on to a series of startups,
This is the kind of revolutionary fervor that Paypal was intended always to foment. Peter Thiel, Paypals cofounder and a die-hard libertarian, launched the company as a means of creating a stateless monetary system,
according to the book The Paypal Wars. oeit will be nearly impossible for corrupt governments to steal wealth from their people.
there were some hints of Paypals revolutionary capabilities. Unlike credit card companies, Paypal had need no to build
Paypal moved even further away from its revolutionary roots in 2002, when it was purchased by ebay for $1. 5 billion.
In April 2008, Bedier led a meeting at ebays North First street headquarters, where he presented his idea to CEO John Donahoe and his lieutenants.
When Bedier was finished, he was stunned to get applause. oeit was like a lightbulb clicked on,
and his voice rises until its echoing off the stark white walls. oethis is the main battleground of capitalism!
Paypal has shied away from using revolutionary rhetoric. In discussing its role, company executives sound less like Thiel,
-and-mortar banks to make deposits, withdrawals, payments, etc. Smart cards: The general term for any card with a specialized computer chip embedded,
But environmentalists say that the clouded leopard faces the threat of poaching while rapid deforestation and the creation of rubber and oil-palm plantations in Borneo is destroying its natural habitat.
however, has the general public been made aware of the threats posed by third-hand smoke.
%The effort to ignite a revolt in the Golden state comes as years of industry-backed campaigns have sown doubts about the scientific consensus behind global warming
environmentalists worry that money from around the country will pour into the effort. oepeople see California as ground zero in this fight,
Other colors Benjamin Moore will be presenting under its oealternative View palette include Midnight Navy, Opaline and Claret Rose.
The authors also conclude that proposed oil development projects represent the greatest threat to Yasunã
The Ecuadorian government is promoting a revolutionary plan, known as the Yasunã-ITT Initiative, which would leave the parks largest oil reserves in the ITT block permanently under the ground.
We want to know what forces maintain this 80-million-year-old arrangement between figs and their wasp pollinators. said lead author, Charlotte Jandr, graduate student in Cornell Universitys Department of Neurobiology and Behavior,
it seems like sanctions were only present where needed. oesanctions seem to be a necessary force in keeping this,
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That organizational mania paid off richly in the frantic opening days of WORLD WAR II, when new military facilities and war plants had to be built yesterday.
WORLD WAR II made Webb rich. Having seen his father lose everything in construction, Webb put some eggs in other baskets.
It was in that mood that Webb struck what he would call oethe best deal I ever made.
That organizational mania paid off richly in the frantic opening days of WORLD WAR II, when new military facilities and war plants had to be built yesterday.
Article continues below WORLD WAR II made Webb rich. Having seen his father lose everything in construction,
Webb put some eggs in other baskets. It was in that mood that Webb struck what he would call oethe best deal I ever made.
#Stingless Bees Mumify Attackers That Cant Be stung Stingless bee Scientists have discovered that bees use more than their stingers to defeat potential attackers.
New Scientist reports that researchers from The swiss Bee Research Centre in Bern have discovered a species of bee an Australian stingless bee called Trigona Carbonaria that has developed a previously unseen way to ward off attackers.
or professions ravaged by the same forces that have enriched the plutocratic elite. The result of these divergent trends is a jaw-dropping surge in U s. income inequality.
It s true that few of today s plutocrats were born into the sort of abject poverty that can close off opportunity altogether#a strong early education is pretty much a precondition#ut the bulk of their wealth is generally the fruit of hustle and intelligence (with, presumably,
and leading them in discussion of matters ranging from global financial imbalances to the war in Afghanistan.
In a study of British and American CEOS, for example, Elisabeth Marx, of the headhunting firm Heidrick & Struggles,
#or the insistence by several top bankers after the immediate threat of the financial crisis receded that their institutions could have survived without TARP funding
The drive to make all food supplies local has touched off a number of battles to rewrite municipal codes to accommodate everything from rooftop gardens, to backyard cows and chickens
Full-time aerial drone pilots needed to help manager our growing fleet of surveillance, delivery, and communication drones.
#In 2010 the U s. Military spent $4. 5 billion on drones, increasing to $4. 8 billion in 2011.
But as a technology, future drones will go well beyond military uses. The stage is being set for thousands of everyday uses in business and industry all over the world.
The Coming Transparency Wars Can you feel the layers being lifted? Transparency is entering our lives in unusual ways
This will continue to be a volatile battleground for many years to come. More details here and here. 24.
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The fight against childhood obesity has been dealt a blow. The U s. House of Representatuves passed a bill that abandons proposals that threatened to end the reign of pizza and French fries on federally funded school lunch menus.
and climatology to one where the true power-brokers will wield the forces of nature. 47.
The battle has begun. For 50 years, farmers, scientists, and homeowners have looked for a way to get rid of kudzu.
#Yuleahoop a revolutionary new way to decorate your Christmas tree Featured invention at the Davinci Inventor Showcase 2011 The Yuleahoopis a small round ring with gripping slots that slips over the top branch
Yuleahoop is a revolutionary new way to decorate your tree. How Does the Yuleahoopwork? Set the Yuleahoop over the very top of the tree.
No one disputes that oral intake of food to get your vitamins and minerals is the way to go,
With its up and down-down fortunes and constant threat of being outflanked by the next ipad-delivered Internet service the media business can be very nerve-wracking.
When the Tomato Wars come to your town, the best people to have on your side are the ones who don t mind getting a little dirty...
but now other traditional entertainment providers are facing the same threat. Comcast, Time warner and others are responding by transforming themselves into software companies with efforts such as TV Everywhere,
The modern combat soldier is embedded in a web of software that provides intelligence, communications, logistics and weapons guidance.
Intelligence agencies do large-scale data mining with software to uncover and track potential terrorist plots. Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.
Over the next 10 years, the battles between incumbents and software-powered insurgents will be epic. Joseph Schumpeter, the economist who coined the term creative destruction,
Battlefield State Historic Park Santa cruz Mission State Historic Park Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park Shasta State Historic Park South Yuba River State Park
#WORLD WAR II State Park Beach Pond State Recreational Area Texas Austin Postcard#via Flickr While the Lone Star state hasnt closed any of its 94 parks,
#Honey could help fight MRSA and other Superbugs Even more health benefits from honey are being identified.
Blasts of mist keep the room humid, and the temperature is similar to the plants native South america.
Combat the social isolation that too easily sneaks up on older adults and it has a huge impact not just on how many years they will live,
s flagship KFC had 5, 055 stories in the U s. and 11,798 overseas. Two massive global fast food chains are even larger.
the flagship of which was the 900 series, released in 1978. About one million of these would eventually be sold.
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#Swedenâ##s hotel of treehouses Tree Hotel in Sweden Swedens unusual Tree Hotel does standardized away with rooms
which was created by Congress in 1994 to raise the awareness of the health threats uniquely facing men.
the military, defense contracting, and real estate, resulting in a practically nonexistent unemployment rate, the lowest property taxes on our list,
#Steve jobs Reveals Plans for the New Hi-tech Apple Headquarters Apples new high-tech headquarters. Steve jobs, Apple CEO, made an unannounced visit to the June 7 City council meeting in Cupertino, home of the computer giant,
to reveal plans for a new, state-of-the-art Apple headquarters, reports the Cupertino Courier. Video and pics) The stunning design resembles a spaceship;#
which came into force in 2005 and obliges them to take steps over time to cut smoking rates,
and is described by THE WHO as one of the biggest public health threats the world has faced ever#.
#Plant Intelligence So how smart are plants? And, can we make them smarter? Plants like the Venus Flytrap demonstrate a small amount of intelligence
when they attract a fly into their sticky trap and close their mouth around it.
In a somewhat similar display of plant intelligence, Poison ivy plants are able to sense danger through the proximity of a person or animal,
Worlds Most Dangerous Animals After doing some research, Ive assembled a list of the top eight animals that pose the greatest threat to humankind.
if we were able to increase the intelligence of deer just slightly, then logically they would become aware of the dangers of running in front of cars.
and we increase deer intelligence a few steps beyond collision avoidance, the deer-crossing signs found many places along roads could be rotated 90 degrees
but it brings us to a much larger topic to consider#animal intelligence. Animal Intelligence Are animals capable of learning?
Many animals have special cognitive abilities that allow them to excel in their particular habitats,
But is it possible to raise this existing level of intelligence even further As an example,
if we were able to raise the intelligence of a silk worm, could a silk worm be trained to automatically weave a tie
Weak Van der waals forces can also play a role in a crystal structure; for example, this type of bonding loosely holds together the hexagonal-patterned sheets in graphite.
This means the sensors can be useful not only to anyone from airport security officials to military troops,
This forces Toucan Sam to be associated with healthier products.##The guidelines, released by the Federal trade commission, encompass a broad range of marketing efforts,
They exert a powerful force on the world around us. Leonardo Davinci dedicated over 500 drawings and 35
turning the notion that humans could fly into an inevitable force of nature#an attractor.
The existence of that data creates a real threat to privacy. The absence of notice to users or any control option can only stem from an ignorance about privacy at the design stage.#
#Wind Turbines Contributing to Decline of Bat Population Wind turbines are a major threat to bats.
Scientists found the blades of wind turbines were a major threat to bats particularly when they are migrating.
In this country, the use of dyes took off with the popularity of processed foods after WORLD WAR II,
Manufacturers originally made processed foods for the military, Shelke said, and after the war, they turned their sights on the consumer market.
But housewives buying products for their families were more discerning than soldiers, she said. The manufacturers wanted to make sure the food would look good,
#she said. They made tomato juice and realized that it turned brown,##Shelke said. So the first thing they did was to put color in it.#
#Adoption of Mobile Wallets Being slowed by Behind-the-Scenes Battle Among Corporate Giants Consumers would wave their phones instead of swiping credit cards at the checkout counter.
#and is used overseas#wide adoption of the so-called mobile wallets is being slowed by a major behind-the-scenes battle among corporate giants.
Remember the Cola Wars? Get ready for the Bottle Wars. Pepsico Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a bottle made entirely of plant material,
which it says bests the technology of competitor Coca-cola and reduces its potential carbon footprint.
demand for the overweight primates is growing as part of the battle against the nations obesity epidemic, according to Dr. Grove and other researchers working with such monkeys in Florida,
##-Steve martin. Without having watched the first movie, Hollywood execs launch into the filming of Social network 2...Hand to hand combat...
Beware of the bark side of the force...Predicament. Sure, if youre a cow, its not part of your vocabulary.
but to get in there and fight for safeguards against contamination and restitution for farmers whose fields are contaminated.
Theyve said that they had a choice between staying to fight for protections and walking away
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#Scattered bright spots in the report led experts to suggest that a repeat of the 2008 food riots stemming from similar sharp price increases might not be imminent.
Riots and demonstrations erupting across the Middle east are inspired not directly by rising food prices alone, experts noted,
Egypt was among more than a dozen countries that experienced food riots in 2008. The F. A o. price index
During a highly-anticipated press event at its headquarters in Mountain view, California, Google also introduced a new way for developers to make money by building applications that run on Android.
and the armies of developers who build applications like games and productivity tools. Google now has more than 100,000 apps available for Android devices,
Henry Thoreau prophetically observed that, in wildness in the preservation of the world.##Arlas Kids Closer to Nature project, via Sports One Source (free subscription rquired) Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati l
Black paint can be either decorative or a sign of hostility, but Watson doesnt believe hostility is directed at the plane overhead.
In other photographs of uncontacted people that Ive seen you sometimes see them with bows
That clearly denotes hostility, #she said. In this picture, they appear to be isolated an people, looking up with curiosity.#
They sue them. 3. Looming Threat to Organic Meat and Dairy Certified organic products cannot,
At this point, President Obama is the last line of defense. Hes the only one who can immediately prevent GE alfalfa from being planted this year.
#Dairy industry Fights FDAÂ##s Proposed New Drug Testing for Milk How could there possibly be antibiotics in my milk?
plenty of real threats face many of the hundreds of bird species in Turkey#According to a biology professor at Hacettepe University in the capital city of Ankara,
Both migratory and endemic species that rely on Turkeys wetlands face the most immediate threats the Turkish newspaper Todays Zaman reported:
Dams And Agriculture Pose Big Threat Inefficient agricultural irrigation and draw offs for the increasing number of hydroelectric dams in the country are among the factors drying up important wetlands in Turkey.
ECONOMIC AND FOOD SECURITY THREAT In Southeast asia, China and parts of Africa, bird flu is already a major economic and food security issue,
and also poses a constant threat of being transmitted to humans. South korea already battling an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease,
and food security in parts of the world where bird flu is a major threat, but said using them would probably add slightly to farming costs.
#Chicago Combats Food Deserts and Childhood Obesity One Seed at a time Chicagoans that vote for their favorite seeds, get free seeds to plant in their gardens.
an artillery game, became a sensation. Can they start writing good apps? Not often, no.
So in late 2008 he wrote an artillery game that could be played on the iphone,
#So far, there has not been much risk of revolt. Developers have expressed flickers of grumpiness at Apple s 30 percent cut of each app sale.
and therefore not useful for maintaining genetically varied populations#uch diversity is key to a population s resilience in the face of various diseases and predatory threats.
a Greek war veteran, came to the United states in 1943 for treatment of a combat-mangled arm.
He d survived a gunshot wound, escaped to Turkey and eventually talked his way onto the Queen Elizabeth,
then serving as a troopship, to cross the Atlantic. Moraitis settled in Port Jefferson, N y.,an enclave of countrymen from his native island, Ikaria.
three and a half decades later, he s 97 years old#according to an official document he disputes;
Before including subjects, Poulain cross-referenced birth records against baptism or military documentation. After gathering all the data, he and his colleagues at the University of Athens concluded that people on Ikaria were,
Then in the late 1940s, after the Greek Civil war, the government exiled thousands of Communists and radicals to the island.
Wild mint fights gingivitis and gastrointestinal disorders; rosemary is used as a remedy for gout; artemisia is thought to improve blood circulation.
Despite the island s relative isolation, its tortuous roads and the fierce independence of its inhabitants, the American food culture, among other forces, is beginning to take root in Ikaria.
It will attempt to coordinate the efforts of police and intelligence agencies to fight illegal timber internationally.
#Students and teachers push back on healthier school lunches New government nutrition standards went into effect this year in a bid to combat childhood obesity.
which went into effect this year in a bid to combat childhood obesity, require schools to serve more variety and larger portions of fruits and vegetables.
So there s the same work tension, the same work disputes. It s not like, Oh, we re all family, so we get along.#
In Charles City, Va.,one still-active family business had marked 160 years by the start of the Revolutionary War.
The pot The food container was an invention of revolutionary simplicity#one that allowed for such revolutionarily simple acts as boiling water.
the environmental impact of large-scale conventional farming and the potential public health threat if antibiotic-resistant bacterial genes jumped to human pathogens.
the company said it struggles to find enough workers to make its new 787 aircraft. Rather, the machines offer significant increases in precision and are safer for workers.
#It still houses a dingy, unused Toyota corolla assembly line on which an army of workers once turned out half a million cars annually.
Consultations are the first stage of the WTO s dispute resolution process. These countries argue that the laws contravene Australia s international obligations in respect to trade-related aspects of intellectual property.
Four weeks later, she was sitting in a glass conference room at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California.
#At Apple headquarters they encouraged her to get her handle to market, and pledged their help in many ways.
While consumers tend to think of Apple s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif, . as the company s heart and soul, a majority of its workers in the United states are not engineers or executives with hefty salaries and bonuses but rather hourly wage earners selling iphones and Macbooks.
But Cory Moll, a salesman in the San francisco flagship store and a vocal labor activist, said that on Tuesday he was given a raise of $2. 82 an hour, to $17. 31,
It s interesting to ask why we find it offensive that Wal-mart pays a single mother $9 an hour,
but we don t find it offensive that Apple pays a young man $12 an hour,##Mr. Osterman said.
And a leap to the company headquarters is highly unusual. Apple prohibits its staff from talking to the media,
escaping from attack, finding family. But plants are rooted, sessile organisms. While they can grow toward the sun,
It s different from conventional weapons such as samurai swords,#Kurihara says. We hope it will build a more peaceful world.#
and assessing traumatic brain injury in soldiers. Currently, Low is working on a newer version of the device,
So the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the Pentagon has developed a hand-held wand that snuffs out fires, without chemicals.
now supplies food to grocery stores and the U s. military. Your local Costco or Wegmans may sell perfectly cooked sous vide lamb shanks, osso buco or turkey roulade.
but Sanjay Sarma, of the Field Intelligence Lab at M. I t.,is working to produce tiny,
IBEX program scientist at NASA Headquarters. Interstellar space just beyond the edge of the solar system is unexplored mostly territory.
when faced with a fungal threat, bees bring in significantly more propolis#45 percent more, on average.
and particles of food, held together with electrostatic forces instead of something less appetizing like glue.
either by the humanitarian outcry of well meaning but sometimes misguided animal lovers, by the threat implicit to traditional farming methods,
it s also meant the onset of superbugs. According to the National Academy of Sciences roughly 70 percent of the antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs used in the U s. are fed to farm animals
Companies can agree to settle their disputes in ways other than traditional national or regional court systems.
what role do external forces play on it s development? This will be a project exponentially more complicated than the human genome project,
#The report said the industry had stepped up its fight against anti-tobacco policies, launching legal challenges and seeking to delay
however, that the battle was far from over and urged more countries to fight the industry.
when there were hunger riots around the world, there was enough food to feed people, it was just too expensive.#
#Planting trees in the Mongolian Desert to fight dangerous dust storms in Seoul A nomadic family outside their ger (yurt) in the Gobi desert near Choir, Mongolia.
For his work, he has been named the first Sustainable Land Management Champion#by the United nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
and onion and oxtail soup packets, make this a culinary onslaught of epic proportion. Perfect complement:
This study highlights the need for air pollution impacts on crops to be taken more seriously as a threat to food security;
it might join the list of possible forces behind colony collapse disorder. Parasitic fly larva emerging from a dead bee s neck.
Meet the Guerilla Grafters What makes them guerrillas is the fact that this grafting is illegal.
As the group s Tara Hui explains, people think of fruit trees as kind of a nuisance.##That s both because of the mess they might create in the form of rotten fruit
The Guerrilla Grafters address the first two problems by making sure each grafted tree has a steward#who can monitor
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#Year in Review: Top 10 Articles on Futuristspeaker. com Futurist Thomas Frey: The sixth law of the future states, The unknowability#of the future is
And we won t find a solution for war. But there is great value in the struggle.
Our greatest achievements will come from these struggles. We can learn much about where we ve come from
and for this reason I d like to give you a quick overview of the top articles in 2011 on Futuristspeaker. com, based on popularity.
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