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In the news this week...
- Manipulating the signals in human
cells.
- Sensing data through the tongue.
- BBC reinvents itself for a new
generation.
- Social entrepreneurs change the
world.
- Stresses and strains of globalization.
- China ramps up its production of
biofuels.
- New eco-cities in China and the
UK.
We also highlight...
James Howard Kunstler's book, The
Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate
Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First
Century... Kunstler describes a world where cheap
oil supplies are exhausted -- a world that is marked
by the end of complacency, stark new realities, and
the breakdown of civilization as we know it.
The website of The Corante Innovation
Hub... Syndicated news and commentary on innovation
from bloggers Walter Baets, Rod Boothby, Renee Hopkins
Callahan, Don Dodge, Brent Edwards, Chuck Frey, Gordon
Graham, Steve Hardy, Egils Milbergs, Michael Osofsky,
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Jeffrey Phillips, Boris Pluskowski,
Joyce Wycoff and others.
An audio clip... Diane Rehm talks
to journalist Michael Massing, newspaper industry
consultant John Morton, and Rem Rieder, editor of
the American Journalism Review about the future
of newspapers.
David Forrest
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SCIENCE
Top
Story: Researchers
Believe They Have Found a Way to Change the Action of 60
Percent of Currently Available Medications - [Medical
News Today] Researchers believe they have found a way to
change the action of 60 percent of currently available medications,
in some cases making them many times more effective, according
to an article published in the April edition of the journal
Science.
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TECHNOLOGY
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Story: Future
Soldiers Might `Taste' War - [Sun-Sentinel] Military
researchers think the tongue could be key in their quest
to create the super warrior of the future, giving soldiers
sensory powers similar to owls, snakes and fish.
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BUSINESS
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Story: 'BBC
2.0' Reinvented for Digital Generation - [The Times]
The BBC is to radically reinvent itself as an organisation
tuned into the internet habits of the iPod generation in
a bid to safeguard its survival in the online age.
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SOCIETY
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Story: Young,
Gifted and Not for Profit - [BBC] In the 19th century,
it was charities that changed society, charities responding
to the new urban problems of industrialisation. In the 21st
century it may be time for something new: social entrepreneurship,
for example.
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GLOBAL
POLITICS
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Story: Globalization's
New Underclass - [Asia Times] Billed as the great equalizer
between the rich and the poor, globalization has been anything
but. An increasingly integrated global economy is facing
the strains of widening income disparities -- within countries
and across countries. This has given rise to a new and rapidly
expanding underclass that is redefining the political landscape.
The growing risks of protectionism are an outgrowth of this
ominous trend.
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ENVIRONMENT
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Story: Sky-High
Oil Prices Fuel Ethanol Mania in China - [Reuters] Record
crude oil prices are fuelling ethanol fever in China, the
world's second-largest oil consumer, despite Beijing's reservations
in allowing more food grains to be used to run cars. Beijing
is reluctant to expand ethanol production from food grains
as China will face a shortage of grains like corn or wheat
possibly as early as next year, due to rising domestic demand
brought on by higher affluence.
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THE
FUTURE
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Story: Future
Life - [BBC] Young people, aged 14-18 are getting a
chance to quiz the experts at the first annual 2020 Vision
Conference in London, hosted by the Institute of Engineering
and Technology.
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Featured Book:
The Long Emergency: Surviving the
End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes
of the Twenty-First Century.
by James Howard Kunstler
Resource
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Featured Link: Innovation
Hub - [Corante] The Corante Innovation Hub
is a destination for readers looking to stay abreast
of the best thinking and writing on innovation from
blogosphere's most insightful commentators.
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Audio Clip: The
Future of Newspapers - [The Diane Rehm Show]
Newspapers face online competition and falling circulation,
Wall Street pressure for profits, and fallout from
recent journalism scandals. Where does their future
lie? (January 3, 2006)
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