http://newfluwiki2.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2356 You know, I’ve been keeping my head down over here for a while, but I think it is time to come out of the woodwork. As you know, I wrote a piece called Severe Panflu Response Strategies (SPRS), which examines a scenario with a CFR of 50% and a CAR of 50% – the [...]
Read more →http://www.chitram.org/mallu/keralamodel.htmhttp://spectrum.ieee.org/print/4109 IEEE article suggesting that Metcalf’s law (value of a network equals the square of the number of users) is wrong, and the truth is more like n log(n). Seems to me like this ought to be something one can check with, say, sale prices or other financial performance metrics.
Read more →Kerala Miracle It’s really hard to find good links on the Kerala Miracle. Searching for that term typically returns, god help us, tourism to some kind of christian sacred site, which is not, at all, the kind of miracle most people are looking for when they google for those terms. Do us all a favor: [...]
Read more →http://guptaoption.com/7.soft_development_paths.php Draft of a new piece over at Gupta Option. Soft Development Paths A tangible solution to global poverty and environmental degradation Sustainable development means different things to different people. This is a plan for making sustainable development completely tangible and real for the poorest half of the human race by creating a “soft development [...]
Read more →THE traditional face of survivalism is that of a shaggy loner in camouflage, holed up in a cabin in the wilderness and surrounded by cases of canned goods and ammunition. Corbis DUGOUT A father and daughter enter a Cold War bomb shelter. Enlarge This Image Warner Brothers Pictures ALIVE AND ALONE Will Smith stars in [...]
Read more →Cybernetics and Stafford Beer were introduced to me by a friend who was a former mainframe systems analyst interested in using Beer’s Viable Systems Model for the design of peace processes more resilient to spoiler dynamics in the erstwhile Sri Lankan peace process. http://ict4peace.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/ict-socialism-and-apartheid/ About, you know, running Chile by computer and teletype machine in [...]
Read more →Six recipients received organs from six donors in operations at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland. The procedure was made possible after an altruistic donor – neither a friend nor relative of any of the six patients – was found to match one of them. Five patients had a willing donor whose kidney was incompatible [...]
Read more →http://subtopia.blogspot.com/ great blog. The perspective is enlightening, puzzling, and priceless. Highly recommended.
Read more →http://www.metaefficient.com/renewable-power/costa-rica-is-99-powered-by-renewable-energy.html Mainly off hydroelectric. Makes sense.
Read more →http://files.howtolivewiki.com/star_tides_ndu_briefing_8_apr_08/ Everything. STAR-TIDES, hexayurts, mass evacuation, pandemic flu, refugees, appropriate technology as foreign policy. Raw. I dunno if it’s too raw, but… if it’s crap, I’m sure people will let me know.
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