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“ This TED talk raises important issues about the intensification in the growth of inequality which can be seen throughout the world, particularly in terms of the the super-rich at the very top of th...”
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“ by ARJUN WALIA Collective-Evolution Thousands of Genetically Modified (GM) insects developed by British scientists are set to be released into fields across Europe as an alternative to chemical pesticides.”
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Every year, Freedom House publishes a report on the world's most and least digitally repressive countries. The worst offenders haven't improved much according to the latest edition of the report, out Thursday. But other countries experienced some striking changes over the past year.
Freedom House's index runs from 0 to 100, with 0 meaning "completely free" and 100 implying the opposite. Burma improved by 13 points, rising from a rank of 75 to 62. The country, also known as Myanmar, has gotten markedly more open in the wake of recent political reforms, spurring hopes for greater transparency and ease of access to credible information.Broad swaths of the Middle East remain significantly unfree, with Iran and Syria leading that list. However, Tehran has recently made multiple promises to relax restrictions on the Web.The United States, meanwhile, dropped five points in the wake of this year's revelations about NSA surveillance. The only country to see its ranking fall even further was India, which dropped eight points in the netfreedom index.Click headline to read more--
Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
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“ Since 1976, the government has shut down 17 separate times, lasting a cumulative 110 days. Here's why each happened.”
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“ An eyewitness account of the ravages of the plague that swept through Europe in the mid 14th century.”
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“ For more Last Look, watch GPS, Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN Google launched a new website called “Constitute” last week with the Comparative Constitution Project.”
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“ Public Radio International Turkey is set to end a ban on several letters of the alphabet Public Radio International A news conference of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is screened on televisions at an electronics shop in Istanbul.”
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Check out this fun map of the 2012’s Most Popular Baby Names By State, only on NickMom.com!
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Get ready to have your mind blown.
I was seriously shocked at some of these mistakes in thinking that I subconsciously make all the time. Obviously, none of them are huge, life-threatening mistakes, but they are really surprising and avoiding them could help us to make more rational, sensible decisions.
Being aware of the mistakes we naturally have in our thinking can make a big difference in avoiding them. Unfortunately, most of these occur subconsciously, so it will also take time and effort to avoid them—if you even want to.
Regardless, I think it’s fascinating to learn more about how we think and make decisions every day, so let’s take a look at some of these thinking habits we didn’t know we had.
Click headline to read more-- Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
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African-American and Latino students are less likely to attend racially and ethnically diverse schools today than at any other time in the last four decades. This, almost 60 years after the landmark Supreme Court ruling that desegregated schools, represents a major setback for one of the core goals of the civil rights movement.
According to a September 2012 study by the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, more than 74 percent of African-American students and 80 percent of Latinos attended schools in 2009-10 where at least half the population consisted of only one minority.
"Our school district is extremely segregated," said Caitlin McNulty, an English-as-a-second-language teacher at Valley West Elementary School in Houston. "Part of that is just we have a huge minority population in our district, period, so I'd say the majority of our schools are at least 80 percent minority."
In her school district, African-Americans and Latinos made up more than 90 percent of the student population last year. Only seven of the 705 students at her school were white -- less than one percent. "That's not out of the ordinary" in her district, McNulty said. "It's just not representative of the population that's here."
Schools across America are resegregating, in part because of a string of court cases since 1991 that have quietly rolled back court enforcement and monitoring of efforts to desegregate schools, say education and legal experts.
Click headline to read more-- Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
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Should UK aid money be propping up private schools in developing countries?
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 Groupthink - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGroupthink being a coinage - and, admittedly, a loaded one - a working definition is in order. We are not talking about mere instinctive conformity - it is, after all, a perennial failing of mankind. What we are talking about is a rationalized conformity - an open, articulate philosophy which holds that group values are not only expedient but right and good as well.
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OPINION: Dr Richard Munang is UNEP's Africa Regional Climate Change Head & Co-ordinator ...Africa is particularly vulnerable to climate change threats because both supply-side and demand-side challenges are putting additional pressure on an already fragile food production system. Current systems of production will only be able to meet 13 percent of the continent's food needs by 2050, while three out of every four people added to the planet between now and 2100 will be born in the region. In the coming half century, the land we grow our food on will change... ...Rising food prices do not have to mean greater food insecurity in Africa under the changing climate. Communities across the continent are already building resilience to climate change by stimulating their existing ecosystems. Let's not squander the opportunity to "avoid the unmanageable and manage the unavoidable" effects of climate change. This is the only way that Africa will be able to achieve the envisaged food-secure society in which its population does not experience the fear of want.
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The heart-breaking news from Fukushima just keeps getting worse…a LOT worse…it is, quite simply, an out-of-control flow of death and destruction. TEPCO is finally admitting that radiation has been leaking to the Pacific Ocean all along. and it’s NOT over…. I find myself moving between the emotions of sorrow and anger. It now appears that anywhere from 300 to possibly over 450 tons of contaminated water that contains radioactive iodone, cesium, and strontium-89 and 90, is flooding into the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima Daichi site everyday. To give you an idea of how bad that actually is, Japanese experts estimate Fukushima’s fallout at 20-30 times as high as as the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings in 1945 There’s a lot you’re not being told. Oh, the information is out there, but you have to dig pretty deep to find it, and you won’t find it on the corporate-owned evening news.Click headline to read more--
Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
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Women workers feed a charcoal kiln used for purifying sugar at a refinery in Scotland during the first world war.
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“ It's a classic underdog tale: David, a young shepherd armed only with a sling, beats Goliath, the mighty warrior. The story has transcended its biblical origins to become a common shorthand for unlikely victory.”
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"Charles Marville photographed Paris' transition from medieval hodgepodge to modern metropolis. Marville made more than 425 photographs of the narrow streets and crumbling buildings of premodern Paris, including this view from the top of Rue Champlain in 1877-1878."
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“ Could the new nation have thrived economically if slavery had been abolished when the colonies won independence?”
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“ Public Radio International Turkey is set to end a ban on several letters of the alphabet Public Radio International A news conference of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is screened on televisions at an electronics shop in Istanbul.”
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan delivered what he called his annual “state of education in America” report at the National Press Club this week (see video and transcript below), just before the federal government was forced to shut down because of Congress’ failure to fund it. His speech, titled “Beyond the Beltway Bubble,” was, well, unusual.
Instead of starting out by talking about the unprecedented (but controversial) school reform effort he has led over the last five years, he slammed Washington D.C. as an “alternative universe,” Congress (which deserved it), as well as pundits and commentators on the right and the left who don’t agree with him.
The speech revealed Duncan as being thin-skinned, but more striking was what else it showed: that the education secretary still doesn’t seem to understand what many of his critics are saying. Here’s part of what he said:
Click headline to read more-- Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
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In November, just a month shy of the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong's birth, a controversial collection of the revolutionary Chairman's words will be republished in China for the first time in decades. Via Thomas Faltin, Matt Beiriger
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Most Swiss Stocks Climb as Chinese Services Expand
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