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THE BIG SHORT – HOW WALL STREET DESTROYED MAIN STREET
Post by JimQ | TheBurningPlatform.com in Economy | Posted on 10th May 2010
Day after day, bankers have been paraded before Congressional committees regarding their role in the financial crisis which brought the financial system to the edge of the abyss on September 18,2008. Every one has claimed that they were not responsible in any way [...]
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You’d Never Know He’s a Sun King
By TODD WOODY | The New York Times | May 7, 2010
AMID the $6 million homes perched on a beachfront cliff in this conservative Southern California enclave, the seven-year-old Honda Civic hybrid with the Obama bumper sticker is the giveaway.
It’s not the usual drive of choice for wealthy former hedge fund managers like David Gelbaum. [...]
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What Climate Change Means for Wine Industry
By Mark Hertsgaard | Wired Science | April 26, 2010 | 6:28 pm
John Williams has been making wine in California’s Napa Valley for nearly 30 years, and he farms so ecologically that his peers call him Mr. Green. But if you ask him how climate change will affect Napa’s world famous wines, he gets [...]
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Gene helps worm regrow missing head
Posted by Lindsay Brooke-Nottingham | FUTURITY | Friday, April 23, 2010 16:12
U. NOTTINGHAM (UK)—Scientists have discovered the gene that enables an extraordinary worm to regrow its whole head and brain—and other body parts—after amputation.
The finding is another step forward in efforts to explore how humans might one day regenerate damaged organs and tissue.
The research led [...]
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Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
TED2006 | Filmed February 2006 | Posted June 2006
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
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The Key to Fixing Global Warming? China
By Daniel Roth | Wired May 2010 | April 19, 2010 | 12:00 pm
It’s late November 2009, and US energy secretary Steven Chu is leaning against a fake sink in a fake kitchen. Chu is 62 years old and athletically trim with graying black hair.
He’s wearing a rumpled pin-striped suit, argyle socks, [...]
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Those Bricks Barrick Gold Dropped on Publishers
The huge mining corporation’s legal actions against two small book presses — what do they say about our democracy?
By Philip Resnick | TheTyee.ca | April 21, 2010
Barrick Gold is a giant in the world of Canadian mining corporations, and its founder and chair, Peter Munk, has revelled in media attention for his philanthropy. For example, [...]
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Annie Leonard: The Story of Stuff. An Interview with Tavis Smiley
Annie Leonard has spent nearly 20 years and visited more than 40 countries working on environmental health and justice issues. She currently directs The Story of Stuff Project, which includes an animated Web-film about the life-cycle of material goods—used as a teaching tool in schools and meetings across the globe—and a published book version of [...]
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A Weak Constitution?
POSTED BY ROGER VALDEZ | Sightline Daily – SPECIAL SERIES: GAME CHANGERS #07 | April 05, 2010
Solving big problems might mean giving up some cherished myths.
Now that the health care proposal has been approved by Congress and signed into law, some people are feeling pretty happy I suppose. Much of the angst and anger about [...]