October 2012

The Future is a Crowded Place : In the largest electronic basket ever built

October 29, 2012 / Society / By / Leave a Comment

  By the year 2025 we will have finally come to grasp that in virtually every human endeavor, density pays. Silicon Valley has known this since Gordon Moore coined his eponymous law nearly half a century ago, predicting the exponentially increasing density and decreasing price of the processing power crammed onto microchips — a dynamic …

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No Question Internet Porn has become Mainstream…

October 24, 2012 / Entertainment / By / Leave a Comment

  A real-life experiment is playing out in front of computer screens all over the world, as millions of people regularly consume porn. Scientists, who have begun to study the potential consequences, are divided. One person to have addressed the issue very openly is advertising maven Cindy Gallop. During a TED conferencein Monterrey, California, 49-year-old …

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Brazilian Woman Sells Virginity for $780,000

October 24, 2012 / Entertainment / By / Leave a Comment

virgins Oct 24, 2012 8:16 PM 3,132 Brazilian Woman Sells Virginity for $780,000 Taylor Berman   A month-long auction for 20-year-old Catarina Migliorini’s virginity ended this morning when a Japanese man called Natsu bid $780,000 for the “date,” as the NY Daily News calls it. The auction/generally repulsive publicity stunt is part of an Australian …

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Wherever you may be in the world, you will feel the unstoppable force of a new Asia.

January 26, 2013 / Business, Society / By / Leave a Comment

   So goes the advertising platform for the largest bank in Southeast Asia. These people know -exactly- what’s happening right now: wealth and power are shifting East.     “If you were smart in the 18th century, you moved to France. If you were smart in the 19th century, you moved to England. If you …

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Climate Change Supercomputer Powers Up

November 18, 2012 / Society, World Politics / By / Leave a Comment

  With all the political discord over climate change, one thing everyone can probably agree on is that when you’re throwing computational resources at modeling weather, the more the merrier.   Think of the new computer that just came online at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming as a kind of dream come true …

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Obama Agreement With Iran

November 18, 2012 / Terrorism / Security, World Politics / By / Leave a Comment

  Reza Kahlili Reza Kahlili served in CIA Directorate of Operations, as a spy in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, counterterrorism expert; currently serves on the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, an advisory board authorized by Congress. He is the author of the award winning book “A Time to Betray” and regularly appears in …

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The Miracle Revolution Of Syrian Diaspora Held Togther By Internet: Syrian Securtiy Forces Held Together By Spy Movies

November 18, 2012 / Terrorism / Security, World Politics / By / Leave a Comment

Orwa Nyrabia is looking for an apartment in Cairo for a few months, just enough time to wrap his latest movie a month after being released from a Syrian jail. Nyrabia was arrested on August 23 in Damascus and held for 22 days. This 35-year-old filmmaker and creator of the renowned Dox Box film festival …

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Empty Churches In America: A New Generation of Millennials Change Society

January 25, 2013 / Society / By / Leave a Comment

  The fastest growing “religious” group in America is made up of people with no religion at all, according to a Pew survey showing that one in five Americans is not affiliated with any religion. The number of these Americans has grown by 25% just in the past five years, according to a survey released …

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In Brazil The Slums Are Out…The Olympics Are In

October 8, 2012 / Society / By / Leave a Comment

RIO DE JANEIRO   The area surrounding the house of Eomar Freitas, 36, looks like a war zone after air strikes. The shopkeeper’s home neighborhood is Rio’s Favela do Metrô, a slum tucked between Radio Oeste Avenue and the metro, next to the Maracanã station. Located just 500 meters from the Maracanã stadium, where the …

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