Thursday 30 April 2015

Household plastic ingested by seabirds focus of IMAS art exhibition - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-30/art-exposes-ocean-debris-toll-on-seabirds/6433366

Saturday 18 April 2015

Tegmark .. Review ... Mathematics and Consciousness

Tegmark takes a mathematical approach without being too mathematical. He posits the notion that earth supports conscious life, which is a mathematics aware that it is information emergent from mathematics. Its as if consciousness is an equation with both sides mathematically defined in such a way that exchanges between sides cannot go unnoticed. Whenever information passes from one side of the equation to another, the result is instantaneous self awareness in order for the mathematical structures to reconcile and be in balance. Consciousness is the eternal imbalance of two sides of a set of equations containing 32 fixed parameters, but simply capable of nonlinear adjustment. The sets of equations, Tegmark describes by their various degrees of universality of information. Being permanently in disequilibrium, we have the driving force of consciousness at many levels and subject to many different systems ...


http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B00H4MVYSO/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt_sr_5?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addFiveStar&showViewpoints=0&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending

Amazon.co.uk: Customer Reviews: Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B00H4MVYSO/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt_sr_5?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addFiveStar&showViewpoints=0&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending

Consciousness is a mathematical pattern: Max Tegmark at TEDxCambridge 2014

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/GzCvlFRISIM

Eating meat is not a sustainable lifestyle - Baltimore Sun

Just in time for the 45th anniversary of Earth Day on Wednesday, April 22, the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has made it official: Consumption of animal products is not environmentally sustainable. Their conclusions match those of a massive 2010 United Nations report which concluded that a global shift toward a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and climate change.



Thursday 16 April 2015

4 forces facing the global economy - Agenda - The World Economic Forum

https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/04/4-forces-facing-the-global-economy/?utm_content=bufferc425d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

IMF tells regulators to brace for global 'liquidity shock' - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11538509/IMF-tells-regulators-to-brace-for-global-liquidity-shock.html

Cell tower removed over health concerns

Democracy in action ...

https://www.rcrwireless.com/20150415/cell-tower-news/tower-removed-over-health-concerns

Pacific Current Change Slowed Global Warming - Scientific American


The extra ocean heat is coming from the atmosphere, said Braddock Linsley, an oceanographer at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University and lead author of the study.

"Because the ocean is in contact with the atmosphere, there's heat exchange between the atmosphere and the surface ocean," he said. "It seems that about 90 percent of the heat that should be in the atmosphere right now with all that extra CO2 [humans have emitted since 1999] has gone into the ocean.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pacific-current-change-slowed-global-warming/



The Man Who Bought 1,000 Monets...And Fathered Today's Art Market - ForbesLife

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2015/04/15/the-man-who-bought-1000-monets-and-fathered-todays-art-market/

Breaking News: Over-Unity Reactionless Generator Invented In India | Collective-Evolution

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/04/15/breaking-news-over-unity-reactionless-generator-invented-in-india/

Wednesday 15 April 2015

1 Way the Apple Inc. iPad Air 2 Crushes the Microsoft Corporation Surface 3 (INTC)

Quite a convincing read ....

Arthur

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/04/15/1-way-the-apple-inc-ipad-air-2-crushes-the-microso.aspx

Seattle CEO sets $70K minimum wage as US 'pay gap' widens (+video) - CSMonitor.com

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2015/0414/Seattle-CEO-sets-70K-minimum-wage-as-US-pay-gap-widens-video?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily&utm_campaign=20150415_Newsletter%3ADaily_Sailthru&cmpid=ema%3Anws%3ADaily%2520Newsletter%2520%2804-15-2015%29

Scientists warn that world must begin preparing for explosive global catastrophe | Daily Mail Online

The world is woefully unprepared for a massive volcanic eruption that could kill millions of people and destroy much of modern society, a leading group of scientists have warned.

In a new report on the risks posed by natural disasters, experts at the European Science Foundation concluded that large volcanic eruptions posed the greatest risk human survival.

They calculated that there is between a five to 10 per cent probability of an explosive eruption large enough to cause huge numbers of deaths, alter the climate and poison the atmosphere occurring by the end of the century.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3039652/Will-volcanic-eruption-destroy-humanity-Scientists-warn-world-begin-preparing-explosive-global-catastrophe.html



Thursday 2 April 2015

Toronto Housing Market May Not Join in Soft Landing - Canada Real Time - WSJ

http://blogs.wsj.com/canadarealtime/2015/04/02/toronto-housing-market-may-not-join-in-soft-landing/

Cold Weather And Low Oil Prices Conspire Against Canadian Economy

http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Cold-Weather-And-Low-Oil-Prices-Conspire-Against-Canadian-Economy.html

TransCanada Corp.’s Energy East scraps plans for a Quebec port: report | Montreal Gazette

The Parti Québécois opposition welcomed news that TransCanada Corp. will not build an oil port in Quebec as part of its cross-country Energy East pipeline project.

The company originally planned to pump Western Canadian oil, at a rate of up to 1.1 million barrels per day, through to terminals in Cacouna and Saint John's, N.B.. The choice of Cacouna, the site of a beluga nursery, was met with a public outcry in Quebec.

TransCanada reportedly considered other locations—Lévis, Bécancour and Baie-des-Sables, near Matane—before ruling out a Quebec port, according to a La Presse exclusive citing unnamed sources.

"It's a beautiful victory for the preservation and sustainability of the belugas we have in the St. Lawrence River," the PQ's natural resources critic, Bernard Drainville, said in a news conference on Wednesday

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/transcanada-corp-s-energy-east-pipeline-will-bypass-quebec-report



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Sketches from scratches is a provocative blogspot that has grown out of the Wuh Lax experience. It is eclectic, which means that it might consider just about anything from the simple to the extremely difficult. A scratch can be something that is troubling me or a short line on paper. From a scratch comes a verbal sketch or image sketch of the issue or subject. Other sites have other stuff that should really be of interest to the broad reader. I try to develop themes, but variety often comes before depth. ... more!