A Bioregional Food System for Southwest British Columbia, Canada
A regionalized and participatory food system, built on regenerative agriculture, for the bioregion of Southwest British Columbia, Canada
A Bioregional Food System for Southwest British Columbia, Canada
A regionalized and participatory food system, built on regenerative agriculture, for the bioregion of Southwest British Columbia, Canada
Signs of the Times
A Systems Model of Creativity
"Any organization that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure." - Melvin E. Conway
Revealed: millions of Americans can’t afford water as bills rise 80% in a decade
Exclusive analysis of 12 US cities shows the combined price of water and sewage increased by an average of 80% between 2010 and 2018, with more than two-fifths of residents in some cities living in neighbourhoods with unaffordable bills.
Arctic records its hottest temperature ever
Alarming heat scorched Siberia on Saturday as the small town of Verkhoyansk (67.5°N latitude) reached 38°C. If verified, this is likely the hottest temperature ever recorded in Siberia and also the hottest temperature ever recorded north of the Arctic Circle, which begins at 66.5°N.
King Sunny Ade Documentary
King Sunny Adé And His African Beats - Synchro Feelings - Ilako
Here, we describe a macaque model of tDCS that allows us to simultaneously examine the effects of tDCS on brain activity and behavior. We find that applying tDCS to right prefrontal cortex improves monkeys’ performance on an associative learning task. While firing rates do not change within the targeted area, tDCS does induce large low-frequency oscillations in the underlying tissue. These oscillations alter functional connectivity, both locally and between distant brain areas, and these long-range changes correlate with tDCS’s effects on behavior. Together, these results are consistent with the idea that tDCS leads to widespread changes in brain activity and suggest that it may be a valuable method for cheaply and non-invasively altering functional connectivity in humans.
Text-based Editing of Talking-head Video
See as well this list of projects on Human Video Generation
Secret History of Silicon Valley
Bill Gates finally tells the truth. Animation
There Are At Least 36 Intelligent Alien Civilizations In Our Galaxy, Say Scientists
Published today in The Astrophysical Journal, the new paper examines the likely number of Communicating Extra-Terrestrial Intelligent (CETI) civilizations in the Milky Way. It assumes that intelligent life comes to occur on other planets much as it has done on our own planet. A key assumption is that it takes around five billion years for intelligent life to form on other planets, as it does on Earth. Another is that a technological civilization will last at least 100 years—as ours has, thus far. After all, it took 4.5 billion years of evolution before a technological civilization arose on Earth, and was capable of communicating.
Turtles are not inside their shells. They are their shell. "Ghost in the shell" is a dumb notion.
The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11 - by Peter Dale Scott in Lobster Magazine
Narcotics are estimated to be worth between $500 billion and $1 trillion a year, an amount, according to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in remarks to a United Nations General Assembly session in June 2003, that is greater than the global oil and gas industry, and twice as large as the overall automobile industry.