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Canada vs Norway: Olympic men’s hockey live
Canada’s men’s hockey team faces their first game against Norway starting at noon eastern time. Join our live coverage with Michael Traikos, who covers the Leafs and NHL for the National Post, and Mike Boone, who blogs Habs for the [...]
Interview 825 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
Welcome to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: This Algorithm Can Predict a Revolution http://ur1.ca/gmf5r Sentient World Simulation: Meet Your DoD Clone http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=5041 Ward Lab’s Conflict Forecast http://mdwardlab.com/conflict_forecasting/home #Geopolitiks: Michael Vail of StratRisks on Sochi, TPP, Ukrainehttp://ur1.ca/gmf62 Story #2: Kraft Cheese Singles to Lose Artificial Preservatives http://ur1.ca/gmf6h Chick-f
5 foods you shouldn't eat if you care about the environment
You've heard them all before, but it doesn't hurt to be reminded of why these foods are destructive to our planet.
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Connecticut: Thousands Flout Gun Registration Law
Via: The Courant: Everyone knew there would be some gun owners flouting the law that legislators hurriedly passed last April, requiring residents to register all military-style rifles with state police by Dec. 31. But few thought the figures would be this bad. By the end of 2013, state police had received 47,916 applications for assault […]
Lykoi 'werewolf' cats are latest pet craze
An unusual breed of cat that resembles a wolf and acts like a dog has been gaining in popularity. With hair missing from around the eyes, nose, ears a...
The Roots…and Future... of Humanity
== Digging into the roots of humanity ==In a study conducted by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine and the University of Cologne, it was found that the children of obese mothers who subsisted on a high-fat diet during the course of their pregnancy are at a higher risk for obesity and related metabolic disorders all their lives.But help is on the way! The world's first genetically modified
Much of the Editing Work on Wikipedia Is Done by Bots
Via: MIT Technology Review: Less well known is Wikidata, an information repository designed to share basic facts for use on different language versions of Wikipedia. Wikidata therefore plays a crucial role in lubricating the flow of information between these online communities. Maintaining all this data is a difficult job. It requires significant editing and polishing, […]
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The Box
Ancient cultures worshiped the stars that litter the heavens because they understood the effects they have on our minds, bodies and souls. Although we still practice this type of worship today, the stars no longer reside in the sky but instead live in Hollywood, CA. Interestingly enough these new stars still exert a powerful level of influence over us, often shaping our actions, thoughts, words and appearance. While I understand why the ancients worshiped the literal stars, I can’t quite figure out why modern man worships these new ‘figurative stars.’ The question we should be asking ourselves
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation –The Illuminati Slasher Film
Official poster for the film In 1994, the fourth installment in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise was released. Starring Renée Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey in two of their earliest film roles (and roles neither of them would likely regard as career highlights). Directed by Kim Henkel (the producer of the original 1974 film), this is often called the worst movie in the franchise; being just plain bizarre, campy, and silly. Similar to The Cabin in the Woods, the movie is a parody of slasher films, featuring caricatures of the archetypal horror characters (the slut, the jock, the shy vir
The 2014 Grammy Awards: Still Pushing the Illuminati Agenda
The 2014 Grammy Awards featured a black magic witchcraft ritual disguised as a Katy Perry performance. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. This has been going on for years. We’ll look at the Illuminati Agenda pushed in the 2014 Grammy Awards. This year’s Grammy Awards apparently had something for everyone. While old-school rockers might have enjoyed seeing Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Willie Nelson and Metallica performing live, it is the current industry puppets who reach the youth. And it is their performances that are riddled with symbolism and messages. Unlike the older singers, the performances
Feb 05
Disney’s “Shutterbug Time” Video Indoctrinates Children to Embrace Government Spying
Special Agent Oso is an animated series that airs on Disney Junior, a television network geared towards children from 3 to 10 years old. The series features a big yellow spy bear and his spy friends who help “educate” children about various things in a James Bond-like setting. While Special Agent Oso is said to teach children about exercise, nutrition and so forth, there are other, more insidious
Jan 24
Grammy Awards 2014 Leaked Clip (funny video)
The good people at Joy Camp have infiltrated the 2014 Grammy Awards to present the award for “2014 Illuminati Puppet of the Year”. Here’s the leaked clip. You’re welcome! But seriously, the guys at Joy Camp told me that this video was inspired by articles on Vigilant Citizen. I believe they did a great job summing up what music business was about in 2013 in an entertaining way. Considering the ri
Jan 23
Mysteries at Denver International Airport
A number of years ago, Vigilant Citizen posted an article about the eerie art installations at Denver International Airport. I found his original article both chilling and very intriguing. Towards the end of it were listed some miscellaneous pieces that were difficult to decipher. Sand painting by Navajo artist, Laura Shurley-Olivas It is possible that this work is there for a reason other th
Jan 22
Symbolic Pics of the Month 01/14
In this edition of SPOTM: Miley Cyrus, Kanye West, Kourtney Kardashian, Jared Leto and, as usual, what the hell is wrong with the fashion world? In Marc Jacob’s Spring 2014 campaign, Miley Cyrus is sitting there, being stylish next to … a dead girl. So fashion forward. In this pic, Miley looks really cool with shades on … the dead girl looks cools as well. This ad campaign prompted a writer at T
Jan 16
South Park Trivializes NSA Spying, Edward Snowden, and Anybody who Cares
Season 17 Episode 1 of South Park is all the Surveillance State. The episode is titled “Let Go, Let Gov.” Satire has the potential to bring to light important issues. It also has the ability to trivialize important issues. The full episode can be found at www.SouthParkStudios.com It should come as no shock that the creators and writers of South Park have devoted an episode to trivializing the imp
Jan 14
The Hidden Meaning of the Movie “Coraline”
Coraline is a popular stop-motion movie released in 2009. While the film appears to be aimed at young people, Coraline’s imagery tells a hidden story: The programming of a mind control slave at the hands of a sadistic handler. We’ll look at the hidden meaning of the movie Coraline. Warning: Gigantic spoilers ahead! Coraline was the first animated movie released by Focus Pictures, the same compan
Jan 09
Sports Programming, People Programming
It’s almost time for the Super Bowl, the championship game of American football. This seems like a good time to share some of my thoughts with you regarding the current nature of sports. My hypothesis is that sports and especially televised sports are being used to program people for the benefit of those whom I have labeled the PRICs (psychopaths really in charge). Others call them the Illuminati.
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No wonder nobody wants to come
Ira Socol says: If your school, and your school day, is not about students collaborating, connecting, and building knowledge and understandings together, why would anyone come? Serious question. If students want to learn in isolation; if they want to sit at a desk and work on their own stuff, occasionally checking in with an “expert,” they have no reason to come to school. They can do a lot better at home, or at their local coffee shop, or even the public library, where both the coffee and the WiFi connection will be better. … [A] vast assortment of educators, from that crusty old mathematic
Tech integration fails when it is an add-on
Miguel Guhlin says: When technology is missing from the equation, both during preparation of an initiative (e.g. Writing Workshop, Problem-Based Learning, whatever), then later when it is shared, adding technology after the fact results in a waste of money. Efforts like mass inclusion of tablets, Bring Your Own Device, Chromebooks fail, not because the devices themselves are insufficient or inadequate to the task, but because they are add-ons to the original recipe … and they were never meant to be included. via http://www.mguhlin.org/2013/12/plurality-of-diversity-gcouros.html Related post
Visioning for desired awesomeness [ACTIVITY]
I asked 3 questions of the educators in charge of their district’s upcoming 1:1 student computing initiative. They worked in small groups and used editable Google spreadsheets to record their responses… If our 1:1 initiative is wildly successful, what will we see? We tried to create vivid, concrete images that were emotionally resonant, thus helping with meaning-making. We took our answers and lumped them into ad hoc categories on a separate Google document (e.g., student independence and self-direction, student interaction and collaboration, learning cultures and processes, digital citizensh
Jan 29
Containers [SLIDE]
Grades, subjects, and time have been the containers in schools. The Web has no end. Download this file: png pptx See also my other slides, my Pinterest collection, and the Great Quotes About Learning and Change Flickr pool. Quote: Dean ShareskiImage credit: Endless, ScypaxPictures Related posts: Nullifying the Web [SLIDE] Troublemaker [SLIDE] Can’t we do better than the evolutionary filmstrip? [
Blab schools
Here’s a video about Cheyenne Mountain Charter Academy, a direct instruction school in Colorado that uses tightly-scripted lessons: “I was reading something about Abraham Lincoln and they said that he attended ‘blab schools,’ that all the students would answer with one voice, and it just made me chuckle because that’s what a direct instruction class sounds like.” This is an awesome format for c
Jan 27
Newell-Fonda students decide to ‘be the change’ [VIDEO]
Students take action to make a difference. One of the two-week projects that occurred during the Newell-Fonda (IA) Community Schools’ Winter Explorium is profiled by KCAU TV in Sioux City, Iowa. Happy viewing! Related posts: Students will lean into the wind if given a chance Want students to be more creative and innovative? Give them the gift of time. [VIDEO] 5 great slides about technology, lea
Jan 24
The dignity of the learner comes in second to his or her compliance
Carol Burris says: [W]atch the Relay Graduate School of Education video entitled ‘[A Culture of Support]‘ . . . . Go to the link and look for the title. In the video, the teacher barks commands and questions, often with the affect and speed of a drill sergeant. The questions concern the concept of a ‘character trait’ but are low-level, often in a ‘fill in the blank’ format. The teacher cuts the s
Jan 23
Nullifying the Web [SLIDE]
When we deny children openness and connectedness, we nullify the power of the Web. Download this file: png pptx See also my other slides, my Pinterest collection, and the Great Quotes About Learning and Change Flickr pool. Image credit: Interior of Cellblock 1 Related posts: Troublemaker [SLIDE] Are you going fast enough? [SLIDE] Slide – Lose your sleep before your decision, not after it Can’t w
Jan 20
Education reformers want double standards for THEIR schools
In what is likely to be my favorite post of the week (and, yes, it’s Monday!), Shaun Johnson says: in case you’re confused, let me summarize Jay P. Greene’s innovative arguments: Standardized test results – and consequences driven almost exclusively by them – are wonderful ways to hold public schools accountable, up to and including shutting down public schools, because public schools are funded
Diane Ravitch and technology: Once more into the breach…
I’m trying to see Diane Ravitch’s pro-technology stance. I really am. I thought she was more tempered in Reign of Error. She actually noted some positive affordances of instructional technologies for students and teachers and also appropriately noted concerns about some cyber charter schools. But after yet another derisive statement about how technologies are ‘distracting toys,’ I left the followi
Jan 17
Leslie Pralle Keehn says: “Don’t turn on the computer until you are told to do so,” “don’t pick up your markers until you are given permission,” “wait for instructions,” “sit patiently until I get to you.” It’s mind-boggling that there are any makers in this world over the age of 10. via http://rethinkredesign.org/2013/12/18/my-day-as-a-maker/#comment-4760 Related posts: My son is 8. He’s a mak
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The Shadowy World of Wikipedia's Editing Bots
Much of the editing work on Wikipedia is too mind-numbingly repetitive for humans, so automated bots do it instead. But keeping track of automated editing has always been hard … until now.In a little over a decade, Wikipedia has evolved from an Internet experiment into a global crowdsourcing phenomenon. Today, this online encyclopedia provides free access to more than 30 million articles in 287 languages.
New Desalination Technique Also Cleans and Disinfects Water
Electrodialysis has the potential to desalinate seawater quickly and cheaply but does not remove other contaminants such as dirt and bacteria. Now chemical engineers have worked out how to do that too.
World's First Entanglement-Enhanced Microscope
Physicists have long known that entangled photons can make more precise measurements than independent ones. Now Japanese physicists have built a microscope that proves it.One of the exciting possibilities of quantum mechanics is the ability to measure the world far more precisely than with classical tools. Today, Takafumi Ono and pals at Hokkaido University in Japan say they’ve exploited this to create the world’s first entanglement-enhanced microscope. Their new toy produces images with entangled photons that are significantly sharper than those possible with ordinary light alone.
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How to Design an Interstellar Communications System
If we want to communicate with other civilisations, it turns out that the laws of physics, the nature of interstellar space and a little common sense place surprisingly strict bounds on how this communication can take place.
Feb 10
Other Interesting arXiv Papers (Week Ending 8 February 2014)
The best of the rest from the arXiv preprint server.How to Run a Campaign: Optimal Control of SIS and SIR Information Epidemics
Feb 07
Do Large Cities Produce More CO2 Per Capita Than Small Ones?
Large cities are more productive than small ones so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that they produce more CO2 as well, say physicists.
Feb 06
Social Media Analysis Reveals The Complexities Of Syrian Conflict
Computer scientists have used the pattern of social media communication in Syria to reveal the structure of opposing forces in the civil war.Social media has become a fundamental tool of social change all over the world. Nowhere is this more evident than the middle east. Platforms such as Twitter and Youtube played a major role in the Arab Spring, the civil uprisings in 2010 that spread from Tunis
Feb 05
"Natural Cities" Emerge from Social Media Location Data
Nobody agrees on how to define a city. But the emergence of “natural cities” from social media data sets may change that, say computational geographers.A city is a large, permanent human settlement. But try and define it more carefully and you’ll soon run into trouble. A settlement that qualifies as a city in Sweden may not qualify in China, for example. And the reasons why one settlement is class
Feb 03
Quantum Internet: First Teleportation to a Solid-State Quantum Memory
A European team of physicists has demonstrated a device that can teleport quantum information to a solid-state quantum memory over telecom fiber, a crucial capability for any future quantum Internet.
Feb 02
Other Interesting arXiv Papers (Week Ending 1 February 2014)
The best of the rest from the arXiv preprint server.Computational Diagnosis of Canine Lymphoma
Jan 30
Data Mining Reveals the Surprising Behavior of Users of Dating Websites
When it comes to finding the perfect mate, people aren’t as fussy as they make out, say researchers studying behavior on online dating sites.
Data Mining Reveals The Surprising Behaviour Of Dating Website Users
When it comes to finding the perfect mate, people aren’t as fussy as they make out, say researchers studying behaviour on online dating sites.There are 54 million single people in the US and around 40 million of them have signed up with various online dating websites such as match.com and eHarmony. As a result, about 20% of current romantic relationships turn out to have started online.&
Jan 29
Why London Comes Last in Social Media City Rankings
When it comes to social media activity, London props up the global league tables. But why?When it comes to the world of social media, there are clear metrics for measuring popularity. On Twitter for example, the account with the largest following is @katyperry with 49,952,646 at the time of writing. That’s followed closely by @justinbieber on 49,167,914 and @BarackObama on 41,190,787. On Facebook,
Jan 28
First Tests of Prototype Organic Wires Grown from Seedlings
Self-growing circuits made out of biological structures such as plant stems act as temperature sensors and more, says expert in unconventional computing.The study of the electrical properties of plants is sleepy backwater of botany that has never generated widespread interest or finding. For example, in 1995 one group carefully evaluated the physiological state of a cucumber by measuring it electr
Jan 27
How a New Science of Cities Is Emerging from Mobile Phone Data Analysis
Study the way people make mobile phone calls in metropolitan areas and you can see a city breathe, say computer scientists.
Jan 25
Other Interesting arXiv Papers (Week Ending 25 January 2014)
The best of the rest from the arXiv preprint server.Navigating Mazemap: Indoor Human Mobility, Spatio-Logical Ties And Future Potential
Jan 23
Are You A Super-Spreader of Disease?
A small group of special individuals could act as an early warning system for the next epidemic. Their special power? Super-spreading disease.
Jan 21
Neural Nets: Now Available In The Cloud
Computing resources such as memory, processing power and even software are all available on demand and in abundance through the cloud. Now neural networks are joining the list.Neural networks are computers that simulate the same process of learning that is thought to go on in the brain. That makes them particularly good at tasks that are difficult with traditional computational approaches. Today,
Jan 20
Are We Alone? NASA's 30-Year Goal to Answer Astrophysics' Greatest Question
“For the first time, we will identify continents and oceans—and perhaps the signatures of life—on distant worlds,” says NASA in its 30-year vision for astrophysics.
Jan 17
Other Interesting arXiv Papers (Week Ending 18 January 2014)
The best of the rest from the arXiv preprint server.Of Course We Share! Testing Assumptions About Social Tagging Systems
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