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Do people have free will?

Do people have free will? | Science News | Scoop.it
The experience of free will is more basic than any other. Everyone naturally feels he or she is the author of his or her choices and character.


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Is Digital Technology Burying the Middle Class?

Is Digital Technology Burying the Middle Class? | Science News | Scoop.it

Rather than moralizing away inequality by creating a more equitable social hierarchy, where more citizens are sufficiently compensated to keep quiet about the exploitation of natural and human resources around the globe, Zizek says we should take the renewal of global protests—from the Middle East to Occupy Wall Street to Spain and Greece—as a sign that capitalism, as a social phenomena, is spinning out of control. The new big earners are managers and CEOs of knowledge-based industries.

 

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Scientists, meet capitalists : Nature News & Comment

Scientists, meet capitalists : Nature News & Comment | Science News | Scoop.it

US agencies and scientific societies aim to create jobs by teaching researchers how to be entrepreneurs.

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Is Capitalism To Blame for Worldwide Obesity?

Is Capitalism To Blame for Worldwide Obesity? | Science News | Scoop.it

Why do people get fat, increasing their personal risk of heart disease, diabetes and other "lifestyle" diseases and society's risk of fiscal collapse from the expense of treating millions of people with those ailments? Conventional wisdom, favored by governments and a vast and growing "wellness industry" around the world, is that it's because individuals can't control themselves.

Grace Hennessy's curator insight, November 4, 2013 6:13 PM

This Article implys that a poor diet increases the risk of heart disease, diabetetes and other lifestyle dieases. and its now becoming a serious issuse for people around the world as the percentage of obsesity has grown immesively over the past 5 years.

Nicholas Grozdanov's curator insight, November 13, 2013 7:33 PM

Why do people get fat, increasing their personal risk of heart disease, diabetes and other "lifestyle" diseases and society's risk of fiscal collapse from the expense of treating millions of people with those ailments? 


What the article is stating is tht rather telling people that you should be excersing, people should be educating others on the effects and how to avoid obesity 

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First, Slow Food. Now, Slow Money.

First, Slow Food. Now, Slow Money. | Science News | Scoop.it

Slow Money is a market-based solution which seeks nothing less than to overhaul the way we relate to our world through money. "Instead of venture capital bankrolling far flung high tech start-ups, Tasch hopes to see 'nurture capital' funding local merchants and producers who, in turn, plug half of their profits back into their communities, ensuring one small local virtuous circle that values soil fertility, carrying capacity, a sense of place, care of the commons, diversity...and economic health as much as financial return."

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Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - physics-math - 19 October 2011 - New Scientist

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - physics-math - 19 October 2011 - New Scientist | Science News | Scoop.it
As anti-capitalist protesters take to the streets, mathematics has teased apart the global economic network to show who's really pulling the strings...
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