Author: Daniela
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Food For Change – A History of the Cooperative Movement in America
http://vimeo.com/76558337 Food For Change is a feature-length documentary film focusing on food co-ops as a force for dynamic social and economic change in American culture. The movie tells the story of the cooperative movement in the U.S. through interviews, rare archival footage, and commentary by the filmmaker and social historians. This is the first film…
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Attacks of the “Killer Algorithms”
Reposted From The Medical Quack Blog: The 401k Plan, is one of the products that consumers buy that Americans don’t know the price and they don’t know the quality. Once again we return to the world of complexities and so how did it get that way? Models and software that execute algorithms and formulas that manage…
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Lorde’s Suppressed Grammy Award acceptance speech (Full Transcript) 26 January 2014
Originally posted on Snoopman News: Queen Bee Sting: Grammy audience told to read more Update: Lorde’s suppressed Grammy speech makes front-page news in New Zealand Lorde’s censored handwritten Grammy speech Full Transcript (with citations) of Lorde’s speech Lorde Censored: The Queen Bee’s Suppressed Grammy Speech http://wp.me/p3PDmH-7j See the Full Story: Royal Pencil in Print: Lorde’s suppressed…
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Profiting From Less Pollution
Originally posted on The Dish: Cleaner air correlates with greater cashflow: A new paper suggests [one] measure to curb pollution that may have had beneficial long-term economic impacts for individuals. The paper’s authors, Adam Isen, Maya Rossin-Slater and Reed Walker, compared the adult labour-market outcomes of those born in counties in America where air pollution decreased…
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World Farmers on Edge
As if this wasn’t entirely predictable: The West Australian Supreme court will commence hearing a test case that has farmers around Australia and even across the world on the edge of their tractor seats. It involves a farmer Steve Marsh who lost his organic certification when GM canola seeds from his neighbour’s crop sprouted on…
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Quote for the Day
“There’s always a conductive thread through space for untenable positions.” — Etel Adnan, Premonition —
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Manipulation – Not Just a Human Trait
From big think – devious roosters: Manipulation is a vicious yet not uncommon human trait. Our ability to alter our surroundings in order to take advantage of a situation was recently on display in The Wolf of Wall Street, when Jordan Belfort flips worthless penny stocks and builds an illegal career from the deal. Of course,…
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The Most Interesting Woman In The World, Ctd
Originally posted on The Dish: More readers offer their nominations: My vote goes to Alexandra David-Néel: explorer, opera prima donna, anarchist, spiritualist, and author. She was an acquaintance of the 13th Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama, studied Buddhism at the Royal Monastery of Sikkim (becoming the Maharaja’s lover), trespassed into Tibet disguised as a pilgrim, traversed China, traveled through…
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