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POPSPostcard from a Tipping Planet During the current review, we are doing to our Clipmarks Clipbase under the headings of Energy and Climate, I found this item clipped in June 2008. It was very freaky then. It is even more so now after Nohopeinhagan. All we can do is love nature and each other in the time there is left ... which is what we should have been doing all along! Surely, it is better to be aware of the risks, than to ignore them. The 2008 IPCC projections which this cartoon is based were much more optimistic than current estimates because the rate of acceleration of both emissions and climate heating was underestimated (and probably still is).
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POPSFLY | Will Apple iPhone hold its own against Nexus? The jury will be deliberating a long time, at least through 2010, on this question. Writes MICHAEL S. MALONE | abcnews.go.com | : "For one thing, Apple understands, better perhaps than any company on the planet, the importance of being not only perpetually innovative " but with a vast and loyal army of Apple fanatics behind it " to regularly take category-busting risks. Thus, the amazing run, beginning a decade ago, of the iMac, MacBook, iPod and iPhone. These landmark (and in the case of the iPod, historic) products not only were ambitious in their goals and beautifully designed, but they also exhibited multiple features that were so innovative that they forced the competition to spend years catching up " and by then, Apple had already moved on to the next breakthrough."
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POPSBank lending to eurozone industry slows Surely companies are stronger if the do not use loans, but grow (or not) on the basis of revenues. And banks are stronger if they do not lend to companies desperate for loans, which might not be paid back.
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POPSDrugs for healthy folks..what's next? Very good article..be aware! Do YOUR own research..don't just accept what a dr says..verify and make sure what they are prescribing is good for you..that it is what you need..that the benefits out weigh the risks. Take charge of your health!
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POPSTrillions Of Troubles Ahead When the debt treadmills spin too fast, people will have to jump off, ditch the dollar and create their own media of exchange. Communities did it very sucessfully in the 1930s with their own 'scrip' currencies.
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POPSForecast 2010: The Center does Not Hold... (1) I have tagged this clip: #degrowth. If anyone makes clips on similar subject matter could I ask them to tag them #degrowth. Then we can have immediate access to a unique collection (which can then be analysed by the likes of us).
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POPSSir Richard Branson: the airline owner on his new war What a w*nker! If he was serious, he would sell his airlines and invest in cool trans-Atlantic liners, as I tried to suggest to him in the early 90s. He could still make a lot of money, even now, if he moved fast, with his undisputed ability to market and self-promote.
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POPSPlease help Clipmarks... As many of you may already know, Clipmarks.com was recently labeled a 'security risk' by McAfee because of recent activity by spammers on the site. We are trying very hard to control the situation and it would help tremendously if you would post a positive review of clipmarks on the source page. I would greatly appreciate your help! eric
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POPSObama's health insurance is deadly fiasco I don't usually comment on US health care, BUT to be *forced* to pay private profit-making company for inadequate health coverage, with premiums increasing as I age, would make me very riled. And the policy won't do any good for the image of Obama, the Federales, or the health insurance industry. Where is Ralph Nader and a third Party when you need them? Couldn't he get together with Ron Paul -- the ultimate coalition. Howard Dean seems to understand what's going on, but he's an MD. If I were an American, then I would want to try something different. Anything! Why aren't people organising?
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POPSPassionate Love compared the lover's serotonin levels with those from the OCD group and another group who were free from both passion and mental illness. Levels of serotonin in both the obsessives' blood and the lovers' blood were 40 percent lower than those in normal subjects. ... Translation: Love and mental illness may be difficult to tell apart. ... "Why doesn't passionate love last? ... Biologically speaking, the reasons romantic love fades may be found in the way our brains respond to the surge and pulse of dopamine ... cocaine users describe the phenomenon of tolerance: the brain adapts to the excessive input of the drug ...
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POPSLaws of Sustainability (3) Following Bartlett's logic, it's a case of do or die (if not, do and die), if not on the level of the individual, then on the level of humankind. People need to start to care for themselves (and others!) on the level of the species. The selfish individualism fostered by the consumer economy and the whole trash heap of economic growth theory needs to thrown overboard first, otherwise the boat will most certainly sink.
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POPSLaws of Sustainbility (2) Bartlett does not say what to do, exactly. But he strongly implies that the first thing to do is stop having children and the second is to cut consumption sharply.
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POPSLaws of Sustainability (1)
Thanks to Eric Snyder for this. I wanted to Amplify it a bit more (and classify it in our collections). Bartlett is brilliant and pulls no punches. For some of his other utterly complelling thinking on which these sustainability "Laws" are based. Here what we said in Clipmarks in 2007. "To understand the nature of accelerating change, see the Clips below. They show the statistical nature of the problem. Dr. Albert Bartlett: Arithmetic, Population and Energy (transcript) - Part 1 http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/9ACF7407-5408-4A61-9DEC-DAFA7484AECE/ Dr. Albert Bartlett: Arithmetic, Population and Energy (transcript) - Part 2 http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/26B7972E-AD22-4AC6-8AEC-E76CEF735804/ The solution has be implemented virtually instantaneously, if there is to be any chance of survival. But all it takes is a change of mind about the purpose of life -- from earth consumer / exploiter to earth carer / partner. To change one's mind takes only a micro-second and we alr
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POPSThe Ethics of Face Transplants Can't say I have actually watched this yet, though, it does spark my interest and I suspect there are others who might find this of interest as well.
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POPSForex Robots Forex Robots are the software especially designed to carry out trade in the forex market. They are set with the necessary tools to make the necessary decisions in trading. It performs by trading signals incorporated in them, making them able to know when to trade or when to hold on to the money.
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POPSReal Aphrodisiacs to Boost Desire The afterglow: Scientists may be figuring out how brain chemistry influences emotion, but don't expect to see a real love potion anytime soon. That's because you and I are more than just chemicals. We're thinking beings with a host of experiences, values, ideas, and memories—all of which share the stage with the chemical systems for lust, attachment, and romance.
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POPSCan Lesbians Be Attracted To Men? I think sexuality is much more fluid than people would like to believe and I hate it when people want to put boundaries on other's. For some women the same sex attraction is so clear cut that there is no denying it. For others, it may be not so well defined. I think anyone who steps outside these boundaries in the gay community also risks a certain backlash--but as a group of people who have been historically oppressed, I hold them to a higher level of acceptance.
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POPSThe madness of Rome (1) As I said, yesterday: there are ways to live without oil and gas. There is no way to live without water. Trading the water of life for life-threatening pollution is truly madness.
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POPS Entrepreneurs Advised to Check Business Credit Report Doing business involves a lot of risks but entrepreneurs can minimize them if they know how well their potential partner is doing financially. They can do this if they pull out a business credit report, which tells them everything they need to know about a company.
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POPSSeed behemoth Monsanto stumbles into antitrust trouble (2) The Monsanto strategy of industry domination has worked brilliantly. It must be irritating to be so reviled for such success. Can the money really make up for the notoriety? It must also be a drag trying to pretend that GM is the answer to world food shortages, when independent studies indicate that the technology does not even increase yield after the first couple of years. By then the farmers are dependent. It's the classic drug-pusher marketing technique which is why it is so successful and so damaging.
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