- The Washington Monthly: Peak Oil Series
Excellent starting point foe all things peak oil
in Public bookmarks - Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. [...] add a couple more details to flesh out the advice. Like: A little meat won’t kill you, though it’s better approached as a side dish than as a main. And you’re much better off eating whole fresh foods than processed food products. That’s what I mean by the recommendation to eat “food.” Once, food was all you could eat, but today there are lots of other edible foodlike substances in the supermarket. These novel products of food science often come in packages festooned with health claims, you should probably avoid food products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat.
The story of how basic questions about what to eat got so complicated reveals a great deal about the institutional imperatives of the food industry, nutritional science and journalism.
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in Public bookmarks - Why is open acess so succesfull? Stigrmegic organisation & the economics of information
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in Public bookmarks by 2 users - WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: What Happens When Things Get Free?
Chris Anderson - Mr. Long Tail, editor of Wired Magazine - makes a great decision here at Pop!tech: assuming that everyone in the audience has either read The Long Tail or knows the argument, he gives a different talk: “What Happens When Things Get Free?” (It covers much of the same ground as the book, but draws a different narrative through many of the same examples.) He starts with a photo of Dr. Carver Mead. Mead started thinking about what happens as semiconductors get cheap to the point where they’re free. The answer is, “you should waste them.” This insight led to VLSI - Very Large Scale Integration - chips that included thousands of transitors, not just single ones.
in Public bookmarks - "The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race" by Jared Diamond
How do you show that the lives of people 10,000 years ago got better when they abandoned hunting and gathering for farming? Until recently, archaeologists had to resort to indirect tests, whose results (surprisingly) failed to support the progressivist view. Here's one example of an indirect test: Are twentieth century hunter-gatherers really worse off than farmers? Scattered throughout the world, several dozen groups of so- called primitive people, like the Kalahari Bushmen, continue to support themselves that way. It turns out that these people have plenty of leisure time, sleep a good deal, and work less hard than their farming neighbors. For instance, the average time devoted each week to obtaining food is only twelve to nineteen hours for one group
in Public bookmarks - Atlas of the Human Journey - The Genographic Project
a geographical & "genographical" world map illustrating when & where ancient humans moved around the world, as a visual explanation about the appearance & frequency of genetic markers in modern people. the interactive application also acts as the basis of depicting your personal ancient ancestors & genetic lineage around the world through the ages, after sending back your own DNA sample.
in Public bookmarks - BYTLANAS.SE
Med digitala medel kan man dela med sig av sina verk, dokumentationer av foto/ljud/film eller rent digitala verk, nästan gratis. Vi tror att sådana här utbyten gagnar konstscenen och öppnar upp för ett mindre bajsnödigt klimat. Därför har vi skapat Bytlanas, ett fint forum där ett utbyte kan ske konstnärer emellan och mellan konstnärer och publik. Bytlanas ordnar bytesträffar dit folk kommer för att byta till sig digitaliserad konst och lämna sin egen i utbyte. Materialet lagras i våra datorer och görs tillgängligt för nedladdning här på sidan i form av Bytlanas Mixtape, en rykande färsk konstsamling i digitalformat.
in Public bookmarks - Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet - Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source
NEC@Shirky.com -- Networks, Economics, and Culture NEC is a mix of essays written for the list, essays written for other outlets, drafts of ideas I’m pursuing, and reader commentary (re-printed only with permission, of course). The list will be very low volume, with an approximately twice-monthly frequency, and the contents will also be archived on shirky.com. <<management>>
Clay Shirky's writings about the Internet
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Note: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy - David MacKay FRS Sustainable Energy - without the hot air: Contents
"For anyone with influence on energy policy, whether in government, business or a campaign group, this book should be compulsory reading." Tony Juniper Former Executive Director, Friends of the Earth "At last a book that comprehensively reveals the true facts about sustainable energy in a form that is both highly readable and entertaining." Robert Sansom EDF Energy "The Freakonomics of conservation, climate and energy." Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net "...a tour de force..." The Economist "... a cold blast of reality ... a must-read analysis..." Science magazine "...this year's must-read book..." The Guardian
in Public bookmarks - Defense Budget Tutorial # - What is the Actual Size of the 2006 Defense Budget? By Winslow Wheeler
Having observed, and in past years participated in, the obscuration of just how much the United States actually spends for defense, this author believes it would assist the debate over the defense budget in this country by identifying its actual size. The “defense spending” bill enacted in December had the title, “Making appropriations to the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006 and for other purposes.” It was a little heavy on those “other purposes” [2] and it did not comprise all the money the Defense Department received and will receive for 2006
in Public bookmarks - How to Know When Ice is Safe - WikiHow
# Recognize that determining the safety of ice is dependent on a combination of factors, not on one factor alone. Ice safety is determined by assessing the following factors together: * Appearance of the ice - its color, texture and features * Thickness of the ice - there are recommended thicknesses for different uses, which are set out below * External temperature over a period of time and on the day * Snow coverage * Depth of water under ice * Size of water body * Chemical composition of water - whether water is fresh or salty * Local climate fluctuations * Extent of ice
Ice - deceptively beautiful Walking, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, ice fishing (with or without a car), cross-country skiing and playing sports are dangerous pastimes when you don't know how to tell if ice is thick enough to withstand weight. There are ways
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in Public bookmarks - How to Test if a Plant Is Edible - wikiHow
Drastic times call for drastic measures. If you ever find yourself stranded in the wilderness for several months without food, you're going to have to figure out how to feed yourself. You can survive for at least a month with nothing but water, you will lose about 20 lbs. However, this is not a suggested fad diet, once you start eating again, you will probably put most of the weight back on. If you're well prepared and knowledgeable about the area, you should have no problem finding edible plants, but if you are near death, and can't otherwise positively identify a safe plant to eat, follow these guidelines to test for edibility.
in Public bookmarks - In Defense of Piracy - WSJ.com by LAWRENCE LESSIG professor of law at Stanford Law School, and co-founder
In early February 2007, Stephanie Lenz's 13-month-old son started dancing. Pushing a walker across her kitchen floor, Holden Lenz started moving to the distinctive beat of a song by Prince, "Let's Go Crazy." He had heard the song before. The beat had obviously stuck. So when Holden heard the song again, he did what any sensible 13-month-old would do -- he accepted Prince's invitation and went "crazy" to the beat. Holden's mom grabbed her camcorder and, for 29 seconds, captured the priceless image of Holden dancing, with the barely discernible Prince playing on a CD player somewhere in the background.
in Public bookmarks - In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits | By Chris Anderson | Wired Magazine
Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired, has a very good article in his magazine on the desktop manufacturing revolution. It's definitely worth the read and is complimentary with thinking being done on this blog re: resilient communities. Thus the new industrial organizational model. It’s built around small pieces, loosely joined. Companies are small, virtual, and informal. Most participants are not employees. They form and re-form on the fly, driven by ability and need rather than affiliation and obligation. It doesn’t matter who the best people work for; if the project is interesting enough, the best people will find it.
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Note: chinese industrial piracy mountain fastness http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&num=100&newwindow=1&q=%22tommy+m%C3%B6ller+%22+schweden+-drag&lr=lang_de&aq=f&aqi=&oq= - No Tech Magazine: Bookbinding: a tutorial
Step-by-step instructions. More tutorials can be found here, here and here.
in Public bookmarks - Recipe for Disaster The Formula That Killed Wall Street - by Felix Salmon | Wired Tech Biz
For five years, Li's formula, known as a Gaussian copula function, looked like an unambiguously positive breakthrough, a piece of financial technology that allowed hugely complex risks to be modeled with more ease and accuracy than ever before. With his brilliant spark of mathematical legerdemain, Li made it possible for traders to sell vast quantities of new securities, expanding financial markets to unimaginable levels.
in Public bookmarks by 2 users - Resilient Communities a SANER future - Sustainable, Asymmetric, Networked, Effective, Resilient
We're committed to growing resilient communities. As the global economic and political system begins to devour itself, we need communities that can withstand those system shocks, and provide us the means to live secure, comfortable, and sustainable lives. Our goal is to provide a place where people who are engaged in this work can share their experiences, tools, and presence
in Public bookmarks - Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), Network Centric Warfare (NCW) & Effect Based Operations (EBO)
<<management>> IWS - The Information Warfare Site is an online resource that aims to stimulate debate about a range of subjects from information security to information operations and e-commerce. It is the aim of the site to develop a special emphasis on offensive and defensive information operations. IWS first went online in December 1999. Since its launch it has undergone a complete redesign and many key texts have been added. In adherence to its founding principles IWS has developed several mailing lists to enable a more interactive debate.
IWS is an online resource that aims to stimulate debate about a range of subjects from information security to information operations and e-commerce.
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in Public bookmarks - Road Map for Financial Recovery: Radical Transparency Now!
But the volume of data obscures more than it reveals; financial reporting has become so transparent as to be invisible. Answering what should be simple questions—how secure is my cash account? How much of my bank's capital is tied up in risky debt obligations?—often seems to require a legal degree, as well as countless hours to dig through thousands of pages of documents. Undoubtedly, the warning signs of our current crisis—and the next one!—lie somewhere in all those filings, but good luck finding them.
in Public bookmarks - Severn Barrage Lagoons (pdf)
Tidal lagoons in the Severn Estuary could both produce more electricity cheapier and be more environmtment friendly than a conventional barrage <economylogy>
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