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The Washington Monthly: Peak Oil Series

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:01:29 GMT

Excellent starting point foe all things peak oil

Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times

emmineb — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:19:32 GMT

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.

Why is open acess so succesfull? Stigrmegic organisation & the economics of information

emmineb — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:52:51 GMT

0612071.pdf (application/pdf Object)

WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: What Happens When Things Get Free?

emmineb — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:07:28 GMT

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.

"The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race" by Jared Diamond

emmineb — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:51:37 GMT

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

Atlas of the Human Journey - The Genographic Project

emmineb — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:35:15 GMT

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.

BYTLANAS.SE

emmineb — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:00:40 GMT

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.

Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet - Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source

emmineb — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:24:50 GMT

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. <>

David MacKay FRS Sustainable Energy - without the hot air: Contents

emmineb — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:31:01 GMT

"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

Defense Budget Tutorial # - What is the Actual Size of the 2006 Defense Budget? By Winslow Wheeler

emmineb — Mon, 07 May 2007 09:23:20 GMT

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