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Medical Dispatch: Superbugs: Reporting & Essays: The New YorkerIn August, 2000, Dr. Roger Wetherbee, an infectious-disease expert at New York University’s Tisch Hospital, received a disturbing call from the hospital’s microbiology laboratory. At the time, Wetherbee was in charge of handling outbreaks of dangerous microbes in the hospital, and the laboratory ...
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Cool Tool: Books That Changed My LifeI don't mean merely great books, or memorable ones, or favorite ones. I mean books that altered your behavior, changed your mind, redirected the course of your life. Books as levers. Here's mine, in the order they entered my life. (I'm not the only one affected by these books because each of ...
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Young Spiritual Leader Arrives in New York, Ready to Teach and Be Taught - New York Times"It is the first time I've ever visited the United States, and it's a bit like a dream," said His Holiness, the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorje, one of the most important leaders in Tibetan Buddhism. Yes, he is that Karmapa: the young master who made headlines across the world at age ...
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Equals Drummond » Blog Archive » Bob Blakley on The Relationship LayerThe driving point of Bob’s session is that the ultimate purpose of identity technologies is to enable relationships. Bob’s thesis is that when you look at it this way, the current paradigms of Internet identity infrastructure — both the “federated” paradigm and the “user-centric” paradigm — need ...
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Peak Everything: Learn about Peak Water : Energy, Water, Water Conservation : Planet GreenThis post is part of a series in which we look at why those basic things that we take for granted--such as water, food, and fuel--are getting expensive and scarce, all at once.We have lots of water in the States, so much that we can let it just flow over Niagara Falls, right? How did it get to ...
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The Charleston Gazette - News - Greenpeace report labels carbon capture 'false hope'"Those of us who live in the so-called 'billion-dollar coalfield' are fed up with the coal industry's false promises," said coalition member Carol Young of Delbarton, Mingo County. "We shouldn't throw billions more in taxpayer money into this costly, unproven technology. Let's take all that ...
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Open the Future: Feedback, Tipping Points, and Hard Choices* Feedback effects ranging from methane released from melting permafrost to carbon emissions from decaying remnants of forests devoured by pine beetles will boost greenhouse gases faster than natural compensation mechanisms can handle. , * The accumulation of non-linear ...
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Open Left:: Much More Than Race: What Makes a Great Speech GreatBarack Obama's March 18, 2008 speech was about much more than race. It outlined a new politics that many Americans-candidates at all levels, activists, and ordinary citizens-have been speaking and writing about, and yearning for, for years. It is a politics that goes beyond the electoral ...
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