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climate change
A collection of 5 posts
Connectivity is the world's destiny, says Parag Khanna (RSA Event)
The link between connectivity of various sorts and social change is something that’s almost bound to interest me, given that I’ve spent over a decade of my life thinking about how the internet changes the way we communicate…
Coffee: doomed by global warming?
Time to start panicking: Researchers at Kew believe that the wild arabica coffee bean, whose cultivated cousin is the basis of most of the coffee drunk around the world, could die out in the wild within 70 years. If it…
A Day in the Life of a Blog Platform
One of the nice things about having system admin rights for the Movable Type install that powers the 150+ blogs we’re running right now is that I can see all comments as they come into the system, and guage…
#TEDxTuttle : The Future of Buildings
Martin Hanczyc is working with Protocells – organic computers programmed through chemistry. Some of them have architectural features – making physical products. You can make shells, or other shapes. She’s showing a demo of what she calls very basic chemistry, as…