Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Roundup

Very good article about why the Republican candidates won't say too much about unemployment and why America might be experiencing the worst of both worlds of cyclical and structural economic disaster.
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"There will be riots on the streets of America," says George Soros.
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What to do about the proliferation of reckless conspiracy theories on the internet? "The second—and not necessarily mutually exclusive—option is to nudge search engines to take more responsibility for their index and exercise a heavier curatorial control in presenting search results for issues like "global warming" or "vaccination." Google already has a list of search queries that send most traffic to sites that trade in pseudoscience and conspiracy theories; why not treat them differently than normal queries? Thus, whenever users are presented with search results that are likely to send them to sites run by pseudoscientists or conspiracy theorists, Google may simply display a huge red banner asking users to exercise caution and check a previously generated list of authoritative resources before making up their minds."
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This is a very well-written article on the petro-state of...Canada.
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Seven billion people and growing food shortage. What to do? Eat insects, artificial meat, develop algae farms and "green super rice".

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