September 2011
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World Bank: ditch fossil fuel subsidies to address... →
By John Vidal from The Guardian
Leaked World Bank documents propose that rich countries should eliminate the $50bn a year they give in fossil fuel subsidies, in order to financially help poor countries address climate change.
The documents, due to be presented to the G20 finance ministers in November, also suggest that countries redirect “climate aid” money already pledged, towards...
MyHeartMap: a crowdsourced app to help saving... →
MyHeartMap: a crowdsourced app to help saving...
By Flavio Gut A group of Penn Medicine researchers Led by Dr. Raina Merchant , an emergency physician and resuscitation expert, is launching a crowdsourcing contest this Fall that will use a smartphone app to plot the locations of Philadelphia’s public automated external defibrillators (AED) which are used to restore cardiac arrest victims’ hearts to their normal rhythm. The MyHeartMap...
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Social Power and the Coming Corporate Revolution →
By David Kirkpatrick, Forbes Contributor
Civilizations have clashed in an unexpected way this year, as ordinary people using Facebook and Twitter knocked down dictators in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya—and are threatening absolute rule in Syria. A so-called Arab spring brought waves of liberation to a long-oppressed region. Something similar is happening in more democratic countries. In Spain throngs...
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Ségou Villages: Hacking Together Rural Internet... →
By Claire Ulrich
One of the main goals of the Segou Village Connection project, a Rising Voices grantee in rural Mali, is to train youth and villagers to join a team of local correspondents and send updates on local life and news via SMS or a second-hand laptop, to feed the project blog [fr].
How do you connect to the web in rural villages when there is often no cybercafe, no electricity,...
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A Day That Stands Alone →
By James Barron, from The New York Times
Just as Sept. 11 was unthinkable, Sunday was inevitable: the 10th anniversary of a day that stands alone. In history. In memory (…)
(…)But the 10th anniversary will dawn on a city and a nation that has changed immutably, with continuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and persistent security worries at home. And no longer is ground zero a scarred...
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Did the use of psychedelics lead to a computer... →
By Wendy M. Grossman from The Guardian
Did psychedelic drugs play a substantive role in the development of personal computing?
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“Dear Moussa”: Libya and the C.I.A. →
By Jon Lee Anderson
(…) What was unexpected was to find evidence that both U.S. and British intelligence agents had sustained close relationships with Qaddafi’s intelligence services—and also, that they had left evidence of those relationships behind, in a paper trail of letters that, in some cases, began with the intimate and chatty salutation, “Dear Moussa.”(…) Read more
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Which countries match the GDP and population of... →
By The Economist
The notion that Brazil is in the vanguard of a group of emerging countries on their way to economic superpower-dom is so widely accepted as to have become trite. But how far along this road is Brazil?
Who knew that Alagoas has the same GDP per person as China? The gauchos of Rio Grande do Sul will not necessarily be delighted to learn that GDP per person in their state is...
Battle of Concepts: Engaging students to bring... →
Battle of Concepts: Engaging students to bring...
By Flavio Gut The National Confederation of Industry of Brazil (Confederação Nacional da Indústria - CNI) reaffirmed the commitment of the private sector to invest in technological development and to recognize that innovation is a consumer demand and the imposition of a market. This position is expressed in the document Commitment to Innovation, released during the recent Brazilian Congress of...
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Tar Sands Protest Spotlights Looming... →
This article by Marc Gunther explain why the American leading environmental groups — Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Funds, Friends of the Earth, the National Wildlife Federation and others are against the construction of the Keystone pipeline project.
Read it! We are all connected.
What have you done lately about climate...
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The End of Social Media 1.0 →
By Brian Solis
I would like to talk about an inflection point in social media that requires pause. I am not suggesting that there will be a social media 2.0 or 3.0 for that matter. Nor do I see the term social media departing our vocabulary any time soon (…)
Instead, what I would like to discuss is the end of an era of social media that will force the industry to mature. It won’t...
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WatchScandal of the ‘tomato slaves’ harvesting crop exported to UK Across Italy an invisible army of migrant workers harvests tomatoes destined for our dinner plates. Paid poverty wages and living in squalor, medical charities have described conditions as ‘hell’.
By Andrew Wasley, from The Ecologist. Basilicata, southern Italy
In the parched countryside outside the town...
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My pain doesn’t make the papers →
This is a tragic brilliant story. It is a real image of how the things happens in Brazil.
In 2008, when I was a photographer for the newspaper O Dia, I went to live undercover in a favela for a report on the drug militias. I was discovered, humiliated, and tortured. I lost my wife, my children, my friends, my house, Rio, the sun, the beach, soccer, everything.
By Nilton Claudino
I‘m no...