21 September 2016

SproutsIO ~ Smart Microgarden Kickstarting!

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Fantastic to see friend and MIT Media Lab alumna Jenny Broutin and team Kickstarting their SproutsIO smart microgarden! "A [...] s...
03 September 2016

Fall 2016 @ MIT ~ Ventures, Places, Futures!

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I'm co-teaching a very cool folio of MIT class offerings this Fall 2016 and hope you'll either consider joining us or spreading th...

Star Trek + XPrize ~ Roddenberry's Worldview!

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Thanks to my MIT Sloan colleague Anjali Sastry for spotting Gene Roddenberry's Worldview on the XPrize Foundation site!
25 August 2016

Earth's Surface Water ~ Deltares Change Analysis

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The BBC's Rebecca Morelle spotlights Surface water shifting around the Earth as discovered by the Deltares Research Institute in the ...
24 August 2016

Future Climate ~ Köppen-Geiger A1FI Scenario...

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Future A1FI Köppen-Geiger climate scenario...

British Happiness ~ Longterm Index of Attitude!

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The DM spotlights University of Warwick's longterm index of British happiness...
22 August 2016

Rise ~ SF Short on Sentient AI vs Humans...

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Nice short SF film Rise on sentient AI robots vs humans...
20 August 2016

Olympian Expenses ~ Price Tag for Hosting...

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WEF shares The cost of hosting every Olympics since 1964 ...
18 August 2016

Profiling Our Parks ~ Envisioning Natural Legacy!

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MIT Sloan alum RJ Andrews of Info We Trust fame shares how we Profile Our Parks !
15 August 2016

Slow Dance ~ An Art Frame That Warps Time!

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Jeff Lieberman is at it again, this time Kickstarting Slow Dance ... "A picture frame that makes real objects appear to move in slow...
14 August 2016

Engines of Liberation ~ Appliances vs Housework!

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Max Roser spotlights Engines of Liberation among other data at Our World Is Changing ...
08 August 2016

Pioneering Spirit ~ Heavylift Ship Sea Trials!

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Thanks to gCaptain for spotting the Pioneering Spirit single-lift installation/decommissioning and pipelay vessel departing Rotterdam for...
31 July 2016

Muzzled Mouthes ~ Free Speech Under Siege...

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The Economist spotlights The muzzle grows tighter on the scourge of anti-liberty cultural, religious, and legal muzzling of free speech. ...
23 July 2016

Volcanic Climate Change ~ Sulfate Evidence...

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OpenMind shares 1816, the Year Without a Summer when... "It snowed and froze in parts of Europe and North America. Crops were ruine...

History of Coups ~ Visualizations of Attempts...

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WaPo's Adam Taylor shares dataset about political coups since the 1950s compiled by political scientists Jonathan Powell and Clayton T...
15 July 2016

Origin of Crops ~ Worldmap of Agrisourcing

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Cool site with interactive and related worldmaps on Origin of Crops ...
04 July 2016

Independence Day ~ US Declaration of Secession

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Thanks to FEE's David D'Amato for reminding us that July 4th ... "Independence Day, presents an opportunity to reflect upon ...
25 June 2016

Human Origins ~ Story of Civilization & Progress

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Thanks to Hemant at Friendly Atheist for spotting Human Origins !
21 June 2016

Nimb ~ Panic-Button Smartring Kickin Now...

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Nimb is a panic-button built-in to a smartring with location-ID and sensible settings which is Kickstarting now ...

Sub-National Density ~ Population World Map...

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Very interesting map of population density shown within sub-national territories (e.g. the 50 United States, the Lander in Germany, Provinc...