Here is an interesting thought from the presentation by Adrian Bowyer of the RepRap project at the recent Go Open 2008 that I attended in Norway. “People can make patented things for themselves” Patentregulation prevents commercial agents without a license to sell people products covered by patents. In the future people will have in their [...]
Read more →Some of the mobile phone’s biggest boosters are those who believe that pumping international aid money into poor countries is less effective than encouraging economic growth through commerce, also called “inclusive capitalism.” A cellphone in the hands of an Indian fisherman who uses it to grow his business — which presumably gives him more resources [...]
Read more →So here’s the idea. Two wikipedias, sharing the same infrastructure and databases – in fact, the same site as now, with a special case. Wikipedia.org serves the content without ads Wikipedia.com serves it with ads You can use whichever site you prefer, but one of them raises money for Wikipedia. Thoughts?
Read more →So I think I’ve found a perfect game. I haven’t played it yet, and there are some details to be figured out, but I think it’s pretty clearly potentially a good abstraction for a certain class of mathematical and political issues, and also looks like it could be quite entertaining if you’ve got a taste [...]
Read more →It’s an injection that has a similar effect to a vasectomy, it lasts three months with limited study on 1756 men showing it can perform as an effective contraception in 95% of males. The ANZAC research institute may be on to something big here though it looks like it might not be going anywhere with [...]
Read more →“We were struck by how much food the organic farmers would produce,” Perfecto said. The researchers set about compiling data from published literature to investigate the two chief objections to organic farming: low yields and lack of organically acceptable nitrogen sources. Their findings refute those key arguments, Perfecto said, and confirm that organic farming is [...]
Read more →Even for me I was on a tear. http://newfluwiki2.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2356#92400 The SPRS paper is definitely designed to stake out an unusual position – fundamental optimism about dealing with a high CFR flu outbreak. As such it runs directly contrary to a lot of established wisdom. To really get into the details of why I think it [...]
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Read more →I think that Ron Paul was much needed chlorine in the pool – but a little goes a long way. Obama looks like an electable post-cold war president, somebody who can actually move America forwards. I’m not sure that America has a lot of strong options going forward – the mess that they’ve made of [...]
Read more →http://newfluwiki2.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2356#92150 Good doctor, I’m simply Mr. Gupta. http://files.howtolivewiki.com/TIDES_PACKET/TIDES_BOARDS_V2_low_resolution.pdf This is a roughly 40 page document I did for the http://STAR-TIDES.net project – a sort of distributed thinktank on infrastructure issues as they pertain to emergencies and sustainable development, mostly operated by National Defense University. It gives a pretty good overview of some important models for [...]
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