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Is Healthy Soil the Low-Tech Solution to Climate Change?
In her book The Soil Will Save Us, writer Kristin Ohlson interviews farmers, soil scientists, and agronomists and concludes that the low-cost, low-tech solution to climate change may be directly underfoot—(Click in the paragraph then click the listen yellow bottom to listen) Continue reading
Our planet will it be good to the last drop?
This depressing animated map shows Walmart taking over America
This depressing animated map shows Walmart taking over America
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Here’s an unsettling look at the Walmart-ification of the U.S., starting in Arkansas in 1962 and ending with total domination more than 3,000 stores across the country. First the chain spreads throughout the state, then the Southeast. Then Walmart crawls north and west, looking for all the world like an invasive species:
AUTO CORRECT
Has the self-driving car at last arrived?
BY BURKHARD BILGERNOVEMBER 25, 2013
The Google car knows every turn. It never gets drowsy or distracted, or wonders who has the right-of-way. Illustration by Harry Campbell.
Human beings make terrible drivers. They talk on the phone and run red lights, signal to the left and turn to the right. They drink too much beer and plow into trees or veer into traffic as they swat at their kids. They have blind spots, leg cramps, Continue reading
Philip Seymour Hoffman dead at 46: Actor had 70 bags of heroin, prescription drugs at home
Sources say 70 baggies of heroin, at least 50 of which were unopened, was founded in the actor’s apartment — some with an ‘Ace of Hearts’ stamp, which police say they haven’t seen in New York City since 2012. Investigators also found about 20 hypodermic needles and five prescription drugs, including one used by heroin addicts to help kick a habit.
BY TINA MOORE, ROCCO PARASCANDOLA, JOE KEMP AND CORKY SIEMASZKO / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
PUBLISHED: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2014, 12:09 PM
UPDATED: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2014, 9:18 AM
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Philip Seymour Hoffman arrived Nov. 18 for the Los Angeles premiere of ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live. The Oscar winner played gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee.
Philip Seymour Hoffman turned his West Village apartment into a drug den. Continue reading
Eyes Wide Open: How to Make Smart Decisions in a Confusing World
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This game-changing book empowers readers to become confident, independent, wise decision-makers— savvy to how our emotions, moods, and habits can trip us up. An investor wonders whether to put his money into the stock market or to keep it in a savings account. A patient is torn between opting for surgery and trying an experimental drug therapy. A college-bound student questions whether to take on debt to attend an Ivy League school or to choose a public institution with low tuition.
Beyond the Information Revolution
by Peter F. Drucker
(The online version of this article appears in three parts. Click here to go to parts two and three.)
THE truly revolutionary impact of the Information Revolution is just beginning to be felt. But it is not “information” that fuels this impact. It is not “artificial intelligence.” It is not the effect of computers and data processing on decision-making, policymaking, or strategy. It is something that practically no one foresaw or, indeed, even talked about ten or fifteen years ago: e-commerce — that is, the explosive emergence of the Internet as a major, perhaps eventually the major, worldwide distribution channel for goods, for services, and, surprisingly, for managerial and professional jobs. This is profoundly changing economies, markets, and industry structures; products and services and their flow; consumer segmentation, consumer values, and consumer behavior; jobs and labor markets. But the impact may be even greater on societies and politics and, above all, on the way we see the world and ourselves in it. Continue reading
For a Better Future
The Information Revolution 