Fraction Magic -- Part 1: Votes Are Being Counted As Fractions Instead Of Whole Numbers | Bev Harris

Bev Harris -- BlackBoxVoting.org May 12, 2016 SUMMARY This report summarizes the results of our review of the GEMS election management system, which counts approximately 25 percent of all votes in th ...

Seven Questions about Technology You Aren’t Even Allowed to Ask | Antonio Regalado

Sex robots, climate hacking, and the true cost of medicine made our list of taboo technology topics. July 28, 2016 (MIT Technology Review) -- What technologies and questions about technology are just ...

Our best shot at cooling the planet might be right under our feet | Jason Hickel

Cracked soil by a village in Iran abandoned by farmers because water reserves ran dry due to overuse. Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images Studies suggest that regenerating soil by turning our ba ...

Nuclear Calendar -- Oct. 17, 2016 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar Friend's Committee on National Legislation October 17, 2016 Oct. 3-Nov. 2 U.N. General Assembly First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) meets. United Nations. Oct. 4 ...

An Afternoon in Early Autumn | John Michael Greer

Future World Is On My Hand. From hdwallpapersrocks.com Oct. 12, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- I think it was the late science writer Stephen Jay Gould who coined the term “deep time” for the vast panora ...

Trio wins Nobel chemistry prize for 'world's smallest machines' | Reuters

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa, winners of the 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry. Photograph: Nobel Prize. Image: Guardian Oct. 5, 2016 (Reuters) -- Jean-Pierre Sauvag ...

Air Pollution Skyrocketing Worldwide in 'Public Health Emergency': WHO | Nadia Prupis

WHO found that fully 92 percent of people worldwide live in regions where the pollution exceeds the organization's safety limits. (Photo: UCL News/flickr/cc) Developing countries and vulnerable popul ...

A Time for Retrovation | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerSept. 21, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- It's been a little more than a year now since I started the narrative that wrapped up last week. The two weeks that Peter Carr spent in the Lake ...

Nuclear Calendar -- Sept. 19, 2016 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation September 19, 2016 Sept. 14-24 Screening of Command and Control. Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St., New York. Sept. 19 Noon, Daryl Kimball, ...

Central Bank Digital Currencies: A Revolution in Banking? | Ellen Brown

From: panamericanworld.com Sept. 16, 2016 (The Web Of Debt Blog) -- Several central banks -- including the Bank of England, the People’s Bank of China, the Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve -- a ...

Looking back on the first decade of Facebook “activism!” | Mickey Z.

Credit: Enoc vt (File:Botón Me gusta.svg) , via Wikimedia Commons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 15, 2016 On Sept. 26, 2006, Facebook became open to anyone aged 13 and over, with a valid e-mail ...