What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains [Epipheo.TV] (by Epipheo)
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Soros: "The division of the euro could save the EU, provided that the periphery retains possession of the euro. Given that their debt is denominated in euros, this would enable them to avoid a default that would destabilize the global financial system. And France, in its current competitive position, would be better suited to act as the eurozone’s leader, rather than to remain a passenger in a car driven by Germany."
"Spain and Italy face a stark choice: force the ECB to relent, or exit unilaterally."
.@racheladred's fascinating write-up of LOB... Londoners on Bikes may or may not re-appear in future elections; however, it has helped strengthen and pluralise cycling advocacy in the UK, rather than drawing resources away from established groups. Debates over identities and issues have been re-invigorated and at the time of writing, cycling’s political profile within the UK capital at least remains high.
What does it say that there is not a writer or intellectual in the top 500? The FP Power Map | Foreign Policy
enclaves with high numbers of immigrants experienced less crime than neighbourhoods with fewer arrivals from abroad. The research focused on neighbourhoods that had an immigrant population larger than 30%. Bell and his team found "strong and consistent evidence that enclaves have lower crime experiences than otherwise observably similar neighbourhoods that have a lower immigrant share of the population".
(via Collaboration aims to harness the energy of 2,000 suns)
All of knowledge will be gamed by advances in AI. That will strengthen institutional status quo, not weaken it. Very interesting transcript of secret meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen & Assange. " it is in the people's interest, if you will over the next decade, to build disinformation generating systems, this is true for corporations, for marketing, for governments and so on"
good round-up on Chechnya "an immense sadness for all involved: the dead ... as well as the soul-scarred citizens of the blighted state of Chechnya."
I moved all my Second Life Linden dollars into bitcoin – Quartz
"Assange has become an outlaw librarian."
Simple errors in Reinhart and Rogoff's arithmetic "It turns out that the initial results were driven by simple computational and transcription errors. The most important of these errors was excluding four years of growth data from New Zealand in which it was above the 90% debt-to-GDP threshold. When these four years are added in, the average growth rate in New Zealand for its high debt years was 2.6%, compared to the -7.6% that R&R had entered in their calculation."
Windenergy convertor EWICON animation, TU Delft (by tudelft)
