Mycologist Paul Stamets lists 6 ways the mycelium fungus can help save the universe: cleaning polluted soil, making insecticides, treating smallpox and even flu ... Read more. 
The first “printed homes” will be coming soon, says World Future Society blogger Thomas Frey. 
LONG BEACH, California -- In the hour that Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs lets his 9-year-old daughter surf the web every day, her wanderings have ... 
Dressed in architect black and sporting dreadlocks, Mitchell Joachim isn’t your average Whole Foods envirogeek. For one thing, he speaks in an intense staccato punctuated with words like peristaltic... The importance of adequately modeling credit risk has once again been highlighted in the recent financial crisis. Defaults tend to cluster around times of economic stress due to poor macro-economic conditions, but also by directly triggering each other through contagion. Although credit default swaps have radically altered the dynamics of contagion for more than a decade, models quantifying their impact on systemic risk are still missing. Here, we examine contagion through credit default swaps in a stylized economic network of corporates and financial institutions
Derivatives and credit contagion in interconnected networks S. Heisea and R. Kühn Eur. Phys. J. B (2012) 85: 115 Via Complexity Digest 
On Wednesday, Google gave people 20/20 vision about a secret augmented-reality project called Project Glass. The glasses are the company's first foray into wearable computing. 
TED Talks At TEDGlobal 2010, author Matt Ridley shows how, throughout history, the engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to make new ideas. Via jean lievens 
Researchers at MIT Develop The Fastest Possible Data Transmission Method http://t.co/W7MvPEO6 via @myh3r3... 
In a step toward computers that mimic the parallel processing of complex biological brains, researchers from HRL Laboratories, LLC, and the University of... Via Wildcat2030 |
The same cultural zeitgeist that gave us the metrosexual - the urban male obsessive about grooming and personal appearance - is also creating its digital equivalent: the datasexual. The datasexual looks a lot like you and me, but what’s different is their preoccupation with personal data. They are relentlessly digital, they obsessively record everything about their personal lives, and they think that data is sexy. In fact, the bigger the data, the sexier it becomes. Their lives - from a data perspective, at least - are perfectly groomed. Via Wildcat2030 
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of Of Two Minds blog, Peak Housing reflects not just a credit bubble but Peak Fraud and Peak Suburbia. 
MAKE brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. 
'Digital prophet' Kevin Kelly says we are experiencing the most significant period in human history since the invention of language. 
Location worldwide, 00000United States See map: Google Maps Transition US and Evolver.net present… Evolver Spores: The Great Reskilling Wed, July 20 This month, Transition US and The Evolver Social Movement will explore the pioneering organizations... In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss getting Zhou Tonged and Jamie Dimon-ed in financial markets. They also discuss bucket shop derivatives, a debit card repo scam and a compound of morons and regulatory flatulence. In the second half of the show Max talks to Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation about bitcoin in the virtual world and about pseudo abundance and artificial scarcity in the real world. Via jean lievens 
If you see an athlete with purple stains on their lips during this summer's Olympics, they may be taking the latest performance enhancer – beetroot. Via Wildcat2030 
"On the Internet, we’ve reached a tipping point where more than 50% of all Internet traffic is no longer generated by humans – instead, it's generated by a motley mix of search engine spiders, bots, scrapers, scammers, hackers and, yes, spies. We are no longer talking about the Internet, we are talking about the Bot Net – a “bot-mediated reality” where algorithms and bots influence where we go, how long we spend there and with whom we communicate."
This great pick by Sakis Koukouvis goes on to list impressive facts on how the Internet is being controlled by robots.
Time to put Human Curation back into the game? Via Sakis Koukouvis, gdecugis 
Could a new wave of networked, amateur scientific endeavour speed the discovery of solutions to pressing environmental problems? Sam Geall reports.
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This is a report in "chinadialogue" which finds examples of citizens figuring out accessible ways to monitor environmental conditions and actually having better results than ongoing official efforts in this direction. Via Sepp Hasslberger The fifteen properties of life from Whole Earth... |
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