Futurist Thomas Frey: Most young people today are asking the very simple question, “Why should I buy a home?”
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More Than 2 Million Babies are Stillborn Every Year: Study
More babies could be saved if the mothers had better medical care.
Worldwide, more than 2 million babies are stillborn every year. About half of the babies born stillborn could be saved if their mothers had better medical care, according to researchers’ estimates.
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Will Electric Cars Be The Next Red/Blue Divide?
Focus-ing on a new perspective.
Ford–which is about to release an all-electric version of the Focus–just put out the above map of the United States with the cities it feels are best suited to electric car ownership. And with a few exceptions, it looks like the flyover states aren’t making preparations for the messianic arrival of the electric car. What do you want to bet that in the next presidential election, we’ll add “electric-car” to the litany of liberal-associative words like arugula, lattes, and sushi.
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Oldest Readable Writing In Europe Discovered
The oldest writing to date.
Marks on a clay tablet fragment found in Greece are the oldest known decipherable text in Europe, a new study says. Considered ‘magical or mysterious’ in its time, the writing survives only because a trash heap caught fire some 3,500 years ago, according to researchers…
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Word Clouds Show Gender Bias in Toy Ads
Advertising words used in ads for boys.
Crystal Smith of The Achilles Effect blog looked at the words from TV commercials for toys and used to present the stark gender bias in toy advertising in graphic form…
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Make’s Roundup of DIY Radiation Detectors
It may not be pretty but it gets the job done!
John Baichtal says: “MAKE’s interview with hardware hacker Akiba highlighted a fascinating trend: individuals and small groups taking their safety into their own hands by creating, modifying, and networking radiation detectors, a.k.a. Geiger counters, rather than relying on governments for information…
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Kindergarten Students in Maine Go Hi-tech with iPads
Kindergartener’s in Maine given iPad 2 tablets.
Teaching tools like crayons, finger paints and alphabet blocks are old school. iPad 2 tablets will be given to kindergarten students in Maine who will now learn their ABCs and 123s on the latest technology.
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The Laws of Transparency
Futurist Thomas Frey: Can you feel the layers being lifted? Transparency is entering our lives in unusual ways and much like having individual veils lifted from a multi-veiled garment; we are now seeing the world around us with far greater clarity.
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Web Advertising Surpassed Newspaper Ad Revenue in 2010
The IAB estimates that Internet-ad revenue in 2010 surpassed that of newspapers.
Double-digit growth of web advertising resumed in 2010 in the U.S. According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, web advertising outpaced traditional media and surpassed newspaper ad revenue for the first time.
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IBM Developing System that Will Predict Traffic
Traffic congestion
A first-of-its-kind system is being developed by IBM and other California collaborators, that will help detect road congestion in real time in an effort to predict and manage traffic flow.
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‘Spillionaires’ – BP Oil Spill Payouts Create New Rich
Thomas Gonzales is one of the only Delacroix fishermen who refused to work for BP.
Instead of economic ruin in the Gulf Coast, the oil spill has brought in a gusher of money. The many people who cashed in on the oil spill have earned nicknames: “spillionaires” or BP rich.” But there were some people who wound up getting little of the money.
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Oceans Noise Pollution Causing Massive Trauma to Squids & Octopuses
Oceanic noise pollution causes problems with invertebrates too.
The effects of noise pollution in the oceans, such as from powerful sonars that can make dolphins go deaf, are still being uncovered by researchers. The latest victims are squids and octopuses (including the ‘cheeky’ ones…), which are affected by low-frequency soundwaves produced by human offshore activities…
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