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Untitled 25 Aug 2013 | 11:31 pm
The Beacon Food Forest (via Ethical Foods) The next time you run low on fruits and veggies, instead of driving to the grocery store, how about taking the kids on a trip to the food forest to see what...
Bayou Corne: The biggest ongoing disaster in the United States you haven't heard of. 25 Aug 2013 | 11:11 pm
(Source: Mother Jones, Daily Kos) One night in August 2012, after months of unexplained seismic activity and mysterious bubbling on the bayou, a sinkhole opened up on a plot of land leased by the pet...
NAFTA on Steroids: The TransPacific Partnership and Global Neoliberalism 22 Aug 2013 | 11:06 pm
A world without democracy, ruled by a technocratic elite serving the interests of US and global capital - protecting "investor rights" against national laws and regulations - is now being created in s...
Two Weeks Left to Apply for Mars Crew 15 Aug 2013 | 08:28 pm
Two Weeks Left to Apply for Mars Crew (via Dice News in Tech) The prospect of joining the first team to colonize Mars has proven to be so wildly alluring that more than 100,000 people have applied fo...
Why does America have such a big prison population? 15 Aug 2013 | 07:38 pm
Why does America have such a big prison population? (via The Economist) “TOO many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law-enforcement reason.” The person who said...
The Hyperloop: Elon Musk’s futuristic plan to blast Californians through a tube 13 Aug 2013 | 07:05 pm
The Hyperloop: Elon Musk’s futuristic plan to blast Californians through a tube (via Raw Story ) Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Monday unveiled his idea for a high-speed mass transit system to...
Phyto Kinetic: Green Roofs for City Buses and Improved Urban Ecosystem 3 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
Source: Urban Gardens With his project, Phyto Kinetic, Marc Grañén aims to energize drab public buses with vibrant, gardened roofs that he hopes will contribute a bit to improving the urban ecosystem...
SERCO: The Biggest Company You've Never Heard Of 30 Jul 2013 | 07:51 pm
Serco Group are the world's leading outsourcing company with a vast and diverse portfolio of government contracts. These contracts are worth billions of pounds each year and means that the control of ...
4 in 5 in US face near-poverty, no work 28 Jul 2013 | 10:03 pm
Source: Associated Press Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an e...
Could the Government Get a Search Warrant for Your Thoughts? 27 Jul 2013 | 03:20 pm
Source: The Atlantic We don't have a mind reading machine. But what if we one day did? The technique of functional MRI (fMRI), which measures changes in localized brain activity over time, can now be...
