Category: Technology (Food & Water)

Economic Development Links

Apr 8, 2014

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1. You Decide: Save the People or Save the Planet #StopTheMyth 2. New York Times: The End of the ‘Developing World’ BILL GATES, in his foundation’s annual letter, declared that “the terms ‘developing countries’ and ‘developed countries’ have outlived their usefulness.” He’s right. If we want to understand the modern global economy, we need a…
Can This Man Feed the World? Billionaire Harry Stine’s Quest to Reinvent Agriculture — Again

Mar 31, 2014

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mwkruse

in Economic Development, Health and Medicine, Public Policy, Science, Technology (Food & Water)

Forbes: Can This Man Feed the World? Billionaire Harry Stine's Quest to Reinvent Agriculture — Again … Stine Seed does business with all of the heavyweights and has for more than three decades, primarily because it has something everybody else needs: the best-performing soybean seeds in the business. Through plant breeding, a roughly 10,000-year-old technique…
Science and Technology Links

Mar 17, 2014

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1. PBS: Five Cook Stoves Used Around the World 2. Upworthy: It Used To Take Up 40% Of Their Daily Expenses. Then They Found A New Way To Cook. 3. Viral Forest: This is the Pallet Emergency Home. It Can Be Built in One Day With Only Basic Tools. … Developed by the creative folks…
Economic Development Links

Feb 4, 2014

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mwkruse

in Africa, Business, Capitalism and Markets, China, Economic Development, Economics, Environment, Gender and Sex, Human Progress, Links – Economic Development, Politics, Poverty, Public Policy, Sociology, Technology (Energy), Technology (Food & Water), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

1. EconLog: On Sweatshops: They're Better Than the Alternative – Art Carden … Here's some of what I wrote them specifically: Sweatshops are an important exercise in appreciating the difference between what we see (people in sweatshops) and what we don't see (the jobs they would have if they didn't have sweatshop opportunities). Sweatshops employ…
Science and Technology Links

Feb 1, 2014

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mwkruse

in Evolution, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, History, Human Progress, Links – Science and Technology, Politics, Public Policy, Science, Technology (Biotech & Health), Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy), Technology (Food & Water), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Technology (Transportation & Distribution), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

I've gotten very behind on my links pages. Here is my attempt to catch up on science and technology links. Sorry for the length, but there is some good stuff here. I'll have another post with environment links shortly. 1. Ancient Origins.net: Entire Neanderthal genome finally mapped – with amazing results This incredible research has…
A 200-Year Look At Automation And How It Has Improved Our Lives

Jan 21, 2014

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mwkruse

in Economic Development, Great Divergence, History, Human Progress, Social Media, Technology, Technology (Biotech & Health), Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy), Technology (Food & Water), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Technology (Transportation & Distribution), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social
The (Mostly) Improving State of the World

Jan 16, 2014

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in Demography, Economic Development, Economics, Environment, Globalization, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, Poverty, Religion, Science, Sociology, Technology (Biotech & Health), Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy), Technology (Food & Water), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Technology (Transportation & Distribution), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Weatlh and Income Distribution

Washington Post: 40 charts that explain the world Our friend and colleague Max Fisher over at Worldviews has posted another 40 maps that explain the world, building on his original classic of the genre. But this is Wonkblog. We're about charts. And one of the great things about charts is that they show not just…
A Lonely Quest for Facts on Genetically Modified Crops

Jan 7, 2014

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in Health and Medicine, Politics, Public Policy, Science, Technology (Biotech & Health), Technology (Food & Water)

New York Times: A Lonely Quest for Facts on Genetically Modified Crops … Like some others on the nine-member Council, Greggor Ilagan was not even sure at the outset of the debate exactly what genetically modified organisms were: living things whose DNA has been altered, often with the addition of a gene from a distant…
Science and Technology Links

Dec 19, 2013

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in Africa, China, Evolution, Health and Medicine, Links – Science and Technology, Science, Technology, Technology (Biotech & Health), Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy), Technology (Food & Water), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Technology (Transportation & Distribution), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

1. Scientific American: Scientific American's Top 10 Science Stories of 2013 A carbon threshold breached, commitments to brain science made, mystery neutrinos found and human evolution revised—these and other events highlight the year in science and technology as picked by the editors of Scientific American 2. Reuters: "Peak farmland" is here, crop area to diminish:…
’50 Social Innovations That Changed the World’

Dec 11, 2013

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in Culture, History, Politics, Public Policy, Sociology, Technology, Technology (Energy), Technology (Food & Water), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Technology (Transportation & Distribution)

Atlantic: '50 Social Innovations That Changed the World' They left BBQ off the list, but other than that, it is an interesting list … 50 Social innovations that changed the world more or less in chronological order. Rank order in top 10 shown in [ ] 1. Irrigation that2. created a structured bureaucracy, land measurement…