There is no description for Newhead, except newheadedness. You know it when you see it. http://www.newheadnews.com en-gb davewest 2003 dave@newheadnews.com (Dave West) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/ Posted: ——Ah, but the prisons are still standing, and the prisons demand bodies. https://medium.com/i-taught-the-law/prepare-for-the-new-war-on-drugs-f083b767aa3 Posted: Thur, Dec 30, 2021 at 4:39 PM——What turned the Sinai into a desert was, most likely, human activity. Wherever they settle, humans tend to chop down trees and clear land. This loss of vegetation affects the land’s ability to retain moisture. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/20/our-biggest-challenge-lack-of-imagination-the-scientists-turning-the-desert-green Posted: Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 2:17 PM——But the U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee’s office, eight state attorneys general and some other entities have been fighting the deal. They argue that it does not properly hold members of the Sackler family accountable and that it usurps states’ ability to try to do so. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/16/judge-rejects-purdue-pharmas-sweeping-opioid-settlement-525222 Posted: Thur, Oct 28, 2021 at 8:21 PM——The supercomputer, called Jiuzhang 2, can calculate in a single millisecond a task that the fastest conventional computer in the world would take a mind-numbing 30 trillion years to do. https://interestingengineering.com/chinas-new-quantum-computer-has-1-million-times-the-power-of-googles Posted: Fri, July 23, 2021 at 8:17 PM——Reducing reliance on air conditioners is essential, Rempel said, because the devices are terrible for the planet. They require a lot of energy to run, accounting for about 6 percent of all electricity use in the United States and 117 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2021/07/23/passive-cooling-heat-wave/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3437be4%2F60fae7c39d2fda945a13beb7%2F5d0e37519bbc0f06dba7b802%2F39%2F70%2F60fae7c39d2fda945a13beb7 Posted: ——Like so many other compounds that change the qualities of consciousness in individuals, caffeine was regarded as a threat to institutional power, which moved to suppress it, in a foreshadowing of the wars against drugs to come. https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/jul/06/caffeine-coffee-tea-invisible-addiction-is-it-time-to-give-up?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email Posted: Mon, June 7, 2021 at 2:20 PM——“Globally [peatlands] are only 3 percent of the land surface but store about 30 percent of the global soil carbon,” https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/06/04/an-enormous-missing-contribution-global-warming-may-have-been-right-under-our-feet/ Posted: Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 7:07 PM——there are about 7,000 “orphaned” wells that the states are now responsible for cleaning up. https://grist.org/abandoned-oil-gas-wells-permian-texas-new-mexico/ Posted: Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 7:32 PM——Felon disenfranchisement was not strictly a regional phenomenon—more than 80 percent of states had felon disenfranchisement laws on the books by the end of the 19th century—but the South became its epicenter after Reconstruction, continuing into the age of mass incarceration. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/02/14th-amendment-section-2-mass-incarceration/ Posted: Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 2:43 PM——He wrote dozens of books, including one of the best-selling poetry volumes in American history: “A Coney Island of the Mind” (1958), a plain-spoken, often wry critique of American culture. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/lawrence-ferlinghetti-dead/2021/02/23/37b2a134-edd5-11df-abf5-a1622994c5f5_story.html?fbclid=IwAR0I4uZPWO1SPgfAG19GHZ65DbNQ7Uzmq5EyPm_u7zEw6iJ3O-aCMLkmX9s Posted: Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 2:50 PM——\"If you don't know, then bad things can happen -- as you've seen recently,\" Zhen said. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/03/investing/wall-street-reddit-hedge-funds/index.html Posted: Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 2:44 PM——The report describes microgrids as the end result the combination of several technological trends, namely, rooftop solar, electric vehicles, heat pumps and batteries for storage. The key is that these technologies are decentralized https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbngmd/decentralized-microgridding-can-provide-90-of-a-neighborhoods-energy-needs-study-finds?fbclid=IwAR0vH6Ax-FwX0MTdv6U8zX0PKD5pGDnikUPJkdoy2eZ43wpvqcxURgqaC0I Posted: Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 8:14 AM——It also reflects a repudiation of the harsher elements of America’s decades-long War on Drugs, pioneered by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, which saw escalating numbers of mostly Black young men arrested or incarcerated for relatively minor offenses such as possession. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/14/marijuana-legalization-us-elections-2020 Posted: Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 11:33 AM——Decades of Republican dominance and platforms based on low taxes, God, guns, and patriotism has left Red states at the bottom. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/10/1994653/-Decades-of-Republican-Mismanagement-Have-Left-Red-States-Mired-in-the-Past-at-the-Bottom?utm_campaign=trending Posted: Thur, Oct 8, 2020 at 3:30 PM——By 2050, when the demand for air conditioning is expected to triple, cooling could become one of world’s top sources of planet-warming gases. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/10/07/radiative-cooling-climate-change/?arc404=true Posted: Wed, Sept 30, 2020 at 10:26 AM——The super-enzyme was engineered by linking two separate enzymes, both of which were found in the plastic-eating bug discovered at a Japanese waste site in 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/28/new-super-enzyme-eats-plastic-bottles-six-times-faster Posted: Thur, Sept 3, 2020 at 2:21 PM——The heart of each cell is a small piece of recycled nuclear waste. https://newatlas.com/energy/nano-diamond-self-charging-batteries-ndb Posted: Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 11:49 AM——Compared with the average wealthy nation, America spends nearly twice as much of its national wealth on health care, about a quarter of which is wasted on inefficient care, unnecessary treatments, and administrative chicanery. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/ Posted: Thur, Aug 20, 2020 at 9:37 PM——The chairman of the Trump campaign was in daily contact with a Russian agent, constantly sharing confidential information with him. That alone makes for one of the worst scandals in American political history. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/russiagate-wasnt-a-hoax/615373/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheAtlantic+(The+Atlantic+-+Master+Feed) Posted: Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 1:38 PM——The U.S. has little excuse for its inattention. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/ Posted: Sat, June 6, 2020 at 7:57 PM——Camden is now something of a showroom for community policing techniques. Officers are trained to use handguns and handcuffs only as tools of last resort. https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/what-happened-to-crime-in-camden/549542/?utm_source=digg Posted: Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 1:35 PM—— https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/business/coronavirus-beans-sales.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article Posted: Thur, Feb 20, 2020 at 1:46 PM——\"This is just the beginning of new era of protein-based electronic devices\" said Yao. https://phys.org/news/2020-02-green-technology-electricity-thin-air.html Posted: Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 7:43 AM——Amazon customers using Amazon cameras to watch Amazon contractors deliver Amazon packages https://www.denverpost.com/2020/01/21/ring-video-doorbell-home-security/amp/ Posted: Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 8:29 PM——Apple’s control over service has caught the attention of the likes of John Deere, which will cheerfully sell farmers tractors for hundreds of thousands of dollars and then tell the U.S. Copyright Office that they don’t own the tractors, merely license them, and that is why they can’t expect to repair their agricultural equipment, as farmers have done since the days when every barn had a workshop and a small smithy attached to it. https://slate.com/technology/2020/01/against-the-cult-of-apple.html Posted: Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 2:27 PM——When you give somebody a drug, you don’t just give it to a person – you give it to a social system. And we really don’t understand the effects of these medications in the broader context. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200108-the-medications-that-change-who-we-are Posted: Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 10:13 AM——confidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents/?fbclid=IwAR1-NRfvx9g-5pfocOeWLBmMMSkDp4W6XXP_DKzKbzZJO2lhNgVKTawGZXA Posted: Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 5:43 PM——There are 1.2 billion room air conditioning units installed today, but that figure will soar to 4.5 billion by 2050 https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/global-cooling-prize-india/index.html Posted: Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 10:20 AM——they inserted the gene for an enzyme that enabled the microbe to eat formate, one of the simplest carbon-containing compounds, and one other strains of E. coli can’t eat. The microbes could then transform the formate into ATP, an energy-rich molecule that cells can use. That diet gave the microbe the energy it needed to use the second batch of three new enzymes it received—all of which enabled it to convert CO2 into sugars and other organic molecules https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/microbe-no-longer-needs-eat-food-grow-thanks-bit-genetic-engineering Posted: Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 12:28 PM——Now, new research and previously unseen data show that the Manukai, and thousands of other vessels in Shanghai over the last year, are falling victim to a mysterious new weapon that is able to spoof GPS systems in a way never seen before. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614689/ghost-ships-crop-circles-and-soft-gold-a-gps-mystery-in-shanghai/ Posted: Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 3:51 PM—— https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/technology/quantum-computing-google.html?utm_source=digg Posted: Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 3:04 PM——It’s no wonder men like Donald Trump are shaking in their boots. Because hell hath no fury like a teenage girl who is awake and aware and done with your bullshit. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/01/greta-thunberg-teenage-girls-donald-trump-opinion Posted: Tue, Sept 24, 2019 at 9:05 PM——From the rise and rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to possible solutions https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/20/the-climate-crisis-explained-in-10-charts Posted: Tue, July 30, 2019 at 11:19 AM——How an autocrat in absolute control of the sources of information and the ability to mete out justice is dislodged is anyone’s guess. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/26/1874596/-There-is-a-strategy-behind-Trump-s-madness-and-it-s-already-much-later-than-you-think Posted: Tue, June 11, 2019 at 8:29 PM——Today the problem is too much information from too many sources, with a resulting plague of fragmentation and division—not excessive authority but its disappearance, which leaves ordinary people to work out the facts for themselves, at the mercy of their own prejudices and delusions. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/1984-george-orwell/590638/ Posted: Sun, June 2, 2019 at 2:05 PM——The reason Trump is likely to get away with this nightmare is that, for a variety of reasons, there is no mechanism in this country right now for sounding the alarm bells. Of course we’re not going to see it from right-wing propaganda outlets. But we’re also not going to see it from Republican leaders or court evangelicals. It is clear that there is no “bottom” to which Trump can sink that they won’t go with him. https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/05/28/can-anything-stop-trumps-decent-into-totalitarianism/ Posted: Fri, May 24, 2019 at 11:27 AM——“The whole time I was by the side of the road, I was thinking: What country am I in? This is not the United States.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/opinion/texas-teresa-todd.html?te=1&nl=nickkristof&emc=edit_nk_20190515 Posted: Sun, May 12, 2019 at 9:43 AM——Cynthia and Alan Inman of Scarsdale, New York, sued the owners of the shopping center next door, alleging the defendants had allowed knotweed to thrive on their property and, from there, undermine the Inmans’ property value. They won $535,000 in damages. https://slate.com/technology/2019/05/japanese-knotweed-invasive-plants.html Posted: Sun, May 5, 2019 at 2:17 PM——Republicans, for the past few decades, have depended on Americans’ inability to make sense of history in judging their policies. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-decline-of-historical-thinking?mbid=social_facebook&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social&utm_brand=tny&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3qRB6J9Jrm2CHjnu65J9O2SOz6x46RmoUhcthu6mZtn7FdbDUnGWTUX3M Posted: Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 9:05 AM——The UN has warned that soils around the world are heading for exhaustion and depletion, with an estimated 60 harvests left before they are too barren to feed the planet. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/24/farmers-save-earths-soil-conservation-agriculture Posted: Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 7:22 PM——The predominance of women explains the decision to install the breastfeeding pods, equipped with a seat, fan, and phone charging point. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/apr/01/koshi-metro-smashed-old-rules-indian-women-drive-change-trains-kerala Posted: Thur, Mar 28, 2019 at 9:40 AM——Nothing Trump is accused of from now on by the press will be believed by huge chunks of the population, a group that (perhaps thanks to this story) is now larger than his original base. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/russiagate-is-wmd-times-a-million Posted: Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 11:12 AM——The brain cells automatically began to send out neuronal connections, linked up with the spinal cord and began sending electrical impulses, which caused the muscles to twitch. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/18/scientists-grow-mini-brain-on-the-move-that-can-contract-muscle Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:49 AM——Scientists think gene-drive organisms could help solve many problems, including wiping out other insect-borne diseases such as Zika and dengue. Gene-drive creatures might also save endangered ecosystems by eradicating invasive rodents. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/02/20/693735499/scientists-release-controversial-genetically-modified-mosquitoes-in-high-securit Posted: Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 2:48 PM——the single biggest effect on fertility is the education of women. https://www.wired.com/story/the-world-might-actually-run-out-of-people/?mbid=synd_digg Posted: Thur, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:22 AM—— https://www.sciencenews.org/article/earth-core-solidified-just-time-save-magnetic-field Posted: Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 10:47 AM——“They should stop considering any new opioid evaluation,” said Brown. “For every day and every week and every month that the FDA don’t do the right thing, people drop dead on the streets. What they do has a direct impact on the mortality rate from opioids in this country.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/24/fda-opioids-big-pharma-prescriptions Posted: Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 1:24 PM—— https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/magazine/beauty-evolution-animal.html Posted: Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:06 AM——Inslee said he was creating an expedited process that would allow about 3,500 people to apply for and receive a pardon without having to hire a lawyer or go to court. https://apnews.com/a57f9cd5ec4a40bcbdf7467589da617d Posted: Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 1:17 PM——Truth is required to act freely. Freedom requires knowledge, and in order to act freely in the world, you need to know what the world is and know what you’re doing. You only know what you’re doing if you have access to the truth. So freedom requires truth, and so to smash freedom you must smash truth. https://www.vox.com/2018/9/19/17847110/how-fascism-works-donald-trump-jason-stanley Posted: Thur, Dec 13, 2018 at 11:53 AM——While antagonism between millennials and boomers is a Freudian trope, Brand’s generation will leave behind a frightening, if unintentional, inheritance. My generation, and those after us, are staring down a ravaged environment, eviscerated institutions, and the increasing erosion of democracy. https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-complicated-legacy-of-stewart-brands-whole-earth-catalog Posted: Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 8:30 AM——Fascism looks different in different cultures, depending on that culture. In fact, it is the essence of fascism to have no single, fixed form https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/flirting-with-fascism-america-s-new-path-1.4925687 Posted: Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 8:06 AM——Bullshitting has its obvious incentives and pleasures: you get all the kudos of saying interesting and important things without any of the work of actually thinking interesting and important things. https://thepointmag.com/2018/examined-life/calling-bullshit Posted: ——Yet it’s the city-, county- and town-level governments where issues of enormous importance to progressives get decided each and every day, and it’s where the generational shift in progressive politics playing out in this midterm cycle will first affect many voters lives. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-midterms-local-elections_us_5be07155e4b09d43e32171e6 Posted: Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 4:23 PM——Plus, it’s surely a better use for your pee than whatever you’re currently doing with it.  https://gizmodo.com/we-talked-to-the-graduate-student-who-made-bricks-from-1830023720 Posted: Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 7:39 AM——Unlike Fujifilm which recognized early on that photography was a doomed business and tackled new markets with a completely different portfolio, Kodak made a wrong analysis and persisted in the decaying photo industry. https://petapixel.com/2018/10/19/why-kodak-died-and-fujifilm-thrived-a-tale-of-two-film-companies/ Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 12:36 PM—— In short, these people are Downton Abbey lords and masters, playacting as Ayn Rand heroes. https://theintercept.com/2018/10/10/donald-trump-inherited-wealth/ Posted: Fri, Sept 7, 2018 at 9:13 AM——“This is not the fault of the judge, he only performed his task in accordance with the written law,” Lukman said. “It’s clear that he was unaware about the truth [of medical cannabis]. I believe this is not the final verdict. If it is, Malaysia laws are cruel.” https://www.talkingdrugs.org/death-sentence-for-malaysia-man-who-gave-patients-free-cannabis-oil Posted: Sun, Sept 2, 2018 at 9:56 AM——Conventional capitalist economic thinking can no longer explain, predict, or solve the workings of the global economy in this new age https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pek3/scientists-warn-the-un-of-capitalisms-imminent-demise Posted: ——The judiciary was given the power to interpret laws passed by the congress to insure they conform to the strictures of the Constitution; to punish infractions against the law and impose sentence; to resolve cases which arise between the states and which arise out of foreign treaties; and to enforce decisions through criminal and civil contempt powers. https://www.salon.com/2018/08/22/the-manafort-verdict-and-cohens-plea-wont-halt-the-slow-motion-fascism-of-the-trump-administration/#close Posted: Thur, Aug 23, 2018 at 9:49 AM——Once you grasp that for Trump and many of his supporters, corruption means less the violation of law than the violation of established hierarchies, their behavior makes more sense. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/what-trumps-supporters-think-of-corruption/568147/?utm_source=fbb Posted: ——“The jury appreciated his honesty throughout the case—including testimony at trial and statements to police—and recognized that a good, hardworking man living a quiet life and not bothering anyone didn’t deserve a felony conviction for his actions,” Bernard said. https://thefreethoughtproject.com/jury-nullifies-georgia-weed-law-finds-man-not-guilty-despite-admittedly-growing-marijuana/ Posted: Sun, July 1, 2018 at 12:44 PM——Earlier this month, the Indonesian government teamed up with the country’s two biggest Islamic organisations to encourage their followers - more than 200 million of them - to cut out single use plastics. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2018/jun/27/could-seaweed-solve-indonesias-plastic-crisis Posted: Thur, June 28, 2018 at 1:11 PM—— The muscles that the propaganda machines need for defending the indefensible are being toned up. Millions and millions of Europeans and Americans are learning to think the unthinkable. So what if those black people drown in the sea? So what if those brown toddlers are scarred for life? https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-trial-runs-for-fascism-are-in-full-flow-1.3543375?mode=amp Posted: Sun, June 24, 2018 at 3:09 PM——The act of rebellion ricocheted around the company, fueling a growing resistance among employees with a dim view of Google’s yen for multi-million-dollar government contracts. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/google-engineers-refused-to-build-security-tool-to-win-military-contracts Posted: Mon, June 18, 2018 at 6:49 PM——We thought America had grown into a country that was no longer capable of inhumane atrocities.  We thought that events such as the Trail of Tears where U.S. States and Presidents implemented a forced migration of nearly 120,000 native Americans whose lands were then given to white farmers which subjected thousands to diseases such as whooping cough, typhus, dysentery, cholera and, starvation which killed between 5,000-8,500 along the journey.  We never thought we’d ever see anything like the Tuskegee Experiment where 600 African-American men were given placebos instead of penicillin for their diagnosis of syphilis in order to track the progress of the disease from blindness to insanity and ultimately their death.   We never thought we’d ever commit another atrocity like the forced internment of Japanese Americans during WWII which took 117,000 people, most of whom were American citizens, out of their homes, confiscated their property and held them in captivity for years. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/17/1772618/-Child-Internment-may-soon-become-the-worst-American-atrocity-in-a-Century Posted: Wed, June 6, 2018 at 11:58 PM——\"In India, you have public banks saying they have to write down all sorts of assets on their books, there are all sorts of new policies coming into place, it is happening much more quickly than people imagined.\" http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44357243 Posted: Fri, May 18, 2018 at 9:03 AM——A biosphere will continue to reproduce the conditions that support life as long as its interconnected set of ecosystems remain sufficiently intact to continue to grow the crops, re-fertilize soil, grow more trees to replace those cut down, allow water to absorb wastes and clean itself deep underground, produce adequate photosynthetic plants to absorb carbon dioxide and release life-giving oxygen, etc. https://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/27-27/50015-environmental-collapse-and-the-pending-death-of-civilization Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 6:04 PM——The point is, the use of clean energy to power an entire country (or a group of countries) is achievable. It’s no longer viable to say “we can’t.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/mar/26/study-wind-and-solar-can-power-most-of-the-united-states Posted: Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 6:40 PM——While these scholars have greatly enhanced our knowledge of the complexity and conflict in Vietnamese history, politics and culture, they don’t, in my view, assign enough responsibility to the United States for causing and expanding the war as a neocolonial power. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/opinion/what-was-the-vietnam-war-about.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region%AEion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 5:01 PM——Sadly, that’s what we have to do with our government; our parents don’t know how to use a fucking democracy, so we have to.” https://theoutline.com/post/3571/david-hogg-parkland-interview?zd=3&zi=huwrb75t Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 4:35 PM——Tue, Bloomberg and The Washington Post reported that Facebook was under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission for potentially violating a 2011 consent decree where Facebook agreed to get users' permission before changing certain privacy settings. http://digg.com/2018/facebook-stock-price-drop-sell Posted: Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 8:15 PM——He went on to specify in more detail his plans to \"step up efforts to establish a legal and policy framework ... that facilitates green, low-carbon, and circular development,\" to \"promote afforestation,\" \"strengthen wetland conservation and restoration\" and \"take tough steps to stop and punish all activities that damage the environment.\" Closing his theme with a flourish, he proclaimed that \"what we are doing today\" is \"to build an ecological civilization that will benefit generations to come.\" https://www.ecowatch.com/china-ecological-civilization-2532760301.html Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 2:56 PM——The decision delivered by the lord chief justice, Lord Burnett of Maldon, is highly critical of the conditions Love would have endured in US jails, warning of the risk of suicide. https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/feb/05/hacking-suspect-lauri-love-wins-appeal-against-extradition-to-us Posted: Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 10:39 PM——Outrage after outrage that should have stuck in the American throat like a fishbone instead slid down as easily as if it were made of jelly. https://longreads.com/2018/01/17/wallace-shawns-late-night/?utm_source=Weekly+Longreads+Email&utm_campaign=9fe61693c4-Longreads_Top_5_January_19_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bd2ad42066-9fe61693c4-238645033&mc_cid=9fe61693c4&mc_eid=dd67a90d00 Posted: Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 9:54 AM——What XCel Energy has shown us is that the price for battery storage is dropping so fast, adding it to a solar or wind project increases the total price only modestly. And that’s a game-changer. https://thinkprogress.org/colorado-wind-batteries-cheap-12e82b91a543/ Posted: Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 9:20 PM—— \"There's clear evidence that access to legal cannabis softens alcohol revenue,\" http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180105/ISSUE01/180109947/how-pot-is-cutting-into-millercoors-light-beer-business?ito=792 Posted: Thur, Jan 4, 2018 at 12:48 PM——The city intends to provide gigabit service for $70 a month or less and a cheaper Internet tier. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/colorado-city-to-build-fiber-broadband-network-with-net-neutrality/ Posted: Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 8:21 PM——Whoever owns this data owns the future. http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/12/14/democracy-and-the-machinations-of-mind-control/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYR%20Dalits%20lies%20Mark%20Dion&utm_content=NYR%20Dalits%20lies%20Mark%20Dion+CID_3a1213936428a227155ae95b261104c3&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_term=Democracy%20and%20the%20Machinations%20of%20Mind%20Control Posted: Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:23 PM——courage, openness, compassion, optimism, co-creation, and actionability https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-invention-of-a-new-kind-of-political-party-in-sweden Posted: Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 1:36 PM——The bill passed the Legislature unanimously. The measure's sponsor, Republican Rep. Jesse Kremer, tweeted Thur that the bill will make Wisconsin a leader in hemp production. His tweet included the hashtag \"AmericasHempland.\" http://www.nbc15.com/content/news/Walker-to-sign-bill-legalizing-hemp-farming-in-Wisconsin-461059473.html Posted: Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 9:01 AM——Steele had stumbled upon a well-advanced conspiracy that went beyond anything he had discovered with Litvinenko or Fifa. It was the boldest plot yet. It involved the Kremlin and Trump. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/15/how-trump-walked-into-putins-web-luke Posted: Thur, Nov 30, 2017 at 7:48 AM——Environmental lawyers ClientEarth are taking the British government to court for a third time for illegal air pollution rates, Delhi has seen a public health emergency declared because of smog levels, and the Lancet estimates air pollution caused 6.4 million premature deaths in 2015. https://www.theguardian.com/business-to-business/2017/nov/28/the-green-van-gogh-cleaning-up-the-cityscape Posted: Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 4:54 PM——The team launched their balloons from Nevada and used machine learning algorithms to direct them over Puerto Rico, where they've been relaying internet from working ground networks over to users in unconnected areas. https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/09/project-loon-delivers-internet-100-000-people-puerto-rico/ Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 7:33 PM——India is embarking on one of the fastest rural-to-urban transitions in human history, with 200 million more city dwellers expected by 2030, all using new buildings, roads and cars. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/06/how-indias-battle-with-climate-change-could-determine-all-of-our-fates Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 2:24 PM——“It’s going to take decades for California to regulate its cannabis industry,” says Allen. “It’s been decades that we’ve been making this mess, and it’s going to take us a while to clean it up.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-02/the-marijuana-machine-rolls-ahead Posted: Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 4:45 PM——On Oct. 11, at a geothermal power plant in Iceland, the startup inaugurated the first system that does direct air capture and verifiably achieves negative carbon emissions. https://qz.com/1100221/the-worlds-first-negative-emissions-plant-has-opened-in-iceland-turning-carbon-dioxide-into-stone/ Posted: Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:22 AM——In other words, the idea that quantum supremacy will change everything isn’t just hype. https://futurism.com/google-just-revealed-how-theyll-build-quantum-computers/ Posted: Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 3:13 PM——The deep disillusionment and anger that led to Donald Trump’s election—a reaction to the corporate coup d’état and the poverty afflicting at least half of the country—have destroyed the myth of a functioning democracy. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/10/02/end-empire Posted: Sat, Sept 30, 2017 at 6:07 PM——Four million cans of beer left the stores here each year – 11,000 a day. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/sep/29/pine-ridge-indian-reservation-south-dakota Posted: Fri, Sept 22, 2017 at 7:40 AM——In general, the results do not show robust statistical evidence of displacement of sales by online copyright infringements. https://thenextweb.com/eu/2017/09/21/eu-paid-report-concluded-piracy-isnt-harmful-tried-hide-findings/#.tnw_DQE89nrs Posted: Tue, Sept 19, 2017 at 12:06 PM——Good faith? If there’s one thing that almost all sides of the conflict agree upon it’s that US Presidents and military leaders in particular lied the country into war, lying early, lying often, lying regularly, lying systematically, and lying quite consciously. The sheer magnitude, audacity, and frequency of these lies were what made Daniel Ellsberg’s release of the Pentagon Papers so electrifying https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/17/1699357/-Quick-Reactions-to-Ken-Burns-Vietnam-ep-1