Giddens feels that there is a huge disparity between the reality of climate change and the political and economic response. As well as system-level change, the situation needs action below the level of the nation state, he explained, with activists and civil society taking steps worldwide to obtain change on the ground, as the Transition Towns movement tried, for example. "The United Nations (UN) has lost a lot of influence, so we will need to look to states and groups of states," he said.
We, the undersigned, make this accusation: that you, the teachers of neoclassical economics and the students that you graduate, have perpetuated a gigantic fraud upon the world.
THE RACE BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND DATA IN MEDICINE
Researchers, doctors and biologists benefit from the massive amount of available information as health data becomes digitized. But it also becomes harder and harder for human brains to uncover the complexity and extract insights. Data is generated at a much faster pace than knowledge. This is THE scientific challenge. We need to create the tools to help human collective intelligence extract knowledge from this influx of data. Parts of these technologies already exist, parts need to be invented. OWKIN creates AI technologies to advance knowledge and discover the medicine of tomorrow.
According to Mexican press accounts, the deadly swine-flu outbreak now spreading into the U.S. is linked to large-scale hog operations in Mexico run by industrial-meat giant Smithfield Foods.
Extrema solstormar kan orsaka allvarliga störningar i samhället. Stora delar av Sveriges elförsörjning kan slås ut, och indirekt även mobilnätet. – Samhället blir allt mer sårbart för den här typen av händelser, säger rymdfysikern Urban Brändström.
1859 orsakade den så kallade Carrington-händelsen stora skador på dåtidens viktigaste kommunikationskanal; telegrafnätet. I både Europa och Nordamerika förstördes telegrafrullar och telegrafister fick el-stötar. Då såg man norrsken ända nere i Karibien.
1921 förstördes en telefonstation i Karlstad och ledde till omfattande problem med rikstelefonin.
1989 drabbades miljoner kanadensare av ett flera timmar långt strömavbrott
2003 blev tiotusentals personer i Malmö utan ström i knappt en timme efter en solstorm.
the re-launched website for the European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS). Founded in 1957, the ESRS is the leading European association for researchers, policy makers and scientists interested in the study of rural issues
According to Mexican press accounts, the deadly swine-flu outbreak now spreading into the U.S. is linked to large-scale hog operations in Mexico run by industrial-meat giant Smithfield Foods.
Monbiot in the Guardian 5.8.2013 about the role of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in spreading and defending the use of neonicotinoids: " So here we have a department staggering around like a drunkard with a loaded machine gun, assuring us that it’sh perfectly shafe. The people who should be defending the natural world have conspired with the manufacturers of wide-spectrum biocides to permit levels of destruction at which we can only guess. In doing so they appear to be engineering another silent spring.
HISTORY OWKIN was co-founded in 2016 by Thomas Clozel, MD, a clinical research doctor and former assistant professor in clinical hematology and Gilles Wain
Under tre dagar den här veckan samlas ledande Nobelpristagare, forskare, politiker och företagsledare i Stockholm för ett Nobelpristagarsymposium. Symposiet, 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability, ska ange prioriteringarna för en utvecklin
Milieu intérieur is the key process with which Bernard is associated. He wrote, "La fixité du milieu intérieur est la condition d'une vie libre et indépendante" [...] This is still the underlying principle of homeostasis today. [...] curare [...] Berna
Chris Anderson "Kilobytes were stored on floppy disks. Megabytes were stored on hard disks. Terabytes were stored in disk arrays. Petabytes are stored in the cloud." -- "The big target here isn't advertising, though. It's science. "