Thursday 18 July 2013

The Economist explains: Who owns your data when you're dead? | The Economist

Crime: The curious case of the fall in crime | The Economist

Technology rules?

Tile retrieval using iOS

Cult of Mac

South West has Britain's lowest unemployment rate - Bristol24-7

South West has Britain's lowest unemployment rate - Bristol24-7

Chart of the Day: Unemployment in Europe Is Catastrophically High and Still Getting Worse | Mother Jones

Real emotional problems are ahead!

Levitation could be the next big science fiction technology to hit it big

Feel sorry for the dogs?

Microsoft’s one million servers: what it means | ITworld

A server could just be a piece of so much junk?

Amazon pays less corporation tax than it got in grants - Channel 4 News

Is the number up for Amazon, Google and Starbucks on tax? | Siobhan Kennedy on Business

Some organisation needs to add heat to change free market thievery!

- The Washington Post

Industry city based on oil, oil guzzlers, and quick buck finance could not sustain its own future. Was its direction completely wrong or was the myth of Detroit's permanence like that of all the fossils facing extinction because of the world's relentless shift to solar energy.

Taking the Hype out of 3D Printing | EE Times

Intel Results Continue to Slide | EE Times

Another pin in the old guard fails muster!

Windows Monopoly Is Getting Destroyed - Business Insider

It has no essential products!

Microsoft has a fate of its own because it did not adhere to innovation

Ten years on, Russia's Putin has gone from 'nobody' to unshakeably powerful - CSMonitor.com

Russia was built on the myth of a need for strong leadership whether a Tzar or a man like Putin!
 
Fact is nobody really needs him. He is just another historical parasite that we will soon forget!

Opposition leader Navalny joins growing roster of jailed opponents of Putin - CSMonitor.com

Hillary Clinton Joins Fight Against Elephant Poaching | TIME.com

Hillary Clinton says future of voting law in jeopardy - theoaklandpress.com

Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | Environment | The Guardian

Momentum Shifts in Syria, Bolstering Assad’s Position - NYTimes.com

Through outside help?

You yourself don't see it, feel it, sense it, hear it, but your child's brain is susceptible?

The technology Trojan horse?

Solar powered Peru!

Cool!

Eating Grass Was An Evolving Trend For Our Human Ancestors - Science News - redOrbit

Mowing lawns by humans actually grazing stretches of Ontario landscape could become fashionable again in Ontario as farmers dedicate themselves to ancestral modes of food consumption.  I knew there was a deep evolutionary memory lurking in the Ontario human psyche?

Brings back youthful memories and confirmation that the man or child with a tiny sliver of Ontario grass in his mouth is not a deviant, but a natural! But, should the practice be encouraged? 

Evolution Clues From Great Ape Fossil - Science News - redOrbit

Cute!

Insect Discovery Sheds Light On Climate Change - Science News - redOrbit

Warmer days!

Crazy Ants Invade the South Destroying Electronics and Household Appliances - Technology News - redOrbit

Do you think these will invade Canada?

Arthur

Hanging Gardens Were In Nineveh, Not Babylon - Science News - redOrbit

Don!

You may enjoy this! I am back in Grand Bend.

What you up to? How is your spouse doing?

Arthur

Georgia, Land Of Peaches, Now Also Land Of Solar Power | EarthTechling

Former Kodak facility to become solar research center | Press & Sun-Bulletin | pressconnects.com

Solar energy costs over long term

Solar energy to hit grid parity by 2020 - Hydrogen Fuel NewsHydrogen Fuel News (versão mobile)

United States Of America : Luxury terry bathrobes for men & women from Tisseron - Textile News United States Of America

A South African friend invented the terry weave! Very special! 

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