AECB Home Page - SXSW 2011: The internet is over If my grandchildren ever ask me where I was when I realised the internet was over – they won't, of course, because they'll be too busy playing with the teleportation console – I'll be able to be quite specific: I was in a Mexican restaurant opposite a cemetery in Austin, Texas, halfway through eating a taco. It was the end of day two of South by Southwest Interactive, the world's highest-profile gathering of geeks and the venture capitalists who love them, and I'd been pursuing a policy of asking those I met, perhaps a little too aggressively, what it was exactly that they did. What is "user experience", really? The content strategist across the table took a sip of his orange-coloured cocktail. This, for outsiders, is the fundamental obstacle to understanding where technology culture is heading: increasingly, it's about everything. Web 3.0 Alarming ones, too, of course, if you don't know exactly what's being shared with whom. The game layer The dictator's dilemma Biomimicry comes of age
International Union for the Conservation of Nature Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature Discover the doomsday seed vault's secrets (NaturalNews) Are you aware of the Arctic Circle Doomsday Seed Vault? Technically it's the Svalbard International Seed Vault. The media has hailed it as an attempt to create a doomsday ark containing a wide variety of seeds to ensure the future of agriculture in the event of widespread crop disasters. A closer look behind the curtains finds some suspicious characters heavily vested in the vault's activity.The doomsday seed vault is situated on the island of Spitzbergen, Norway, located in the Svalbard island group within the Arctic Circle. It exists in an old copper mine, which is connected by a long steel tunnel from outside of the mine's mountain. It is steel and concrete fortified with all the latest technological innovations for supplying power and maintaining seed security. It is considered a safety deposit box back up for all other seed banks located throughout the world, of which there are many. Engdahl suspects something is rotten in Svalbard. Sources for this article include:
"Global players" Chief Seattle's Speech of 1854 - Version 1 Version 1 (below) appeared in the Seattle Sunday Star on Oct. 29, 1887, in a column by Dr. Henry A. Smith. "CHIEF SEATTLE'S 1854 ORATION" - ver . 1 Yonder sky that has wept tears of compassion upon my people for centuries untold, and which to us appears changeless and eternal, may change. There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory. Youth is impulsive. Our good father in Washington--for I presume he is now our father as well as yours, since King George has moved his boundaries further north--our great and good father, I say, sends us word that if we do as he desires he will protect us. To us the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. Your dead cease to love you and the land of their nativity as soon as they pass the portals of the tomb and wander away beyond the stars.
Vidéo Mouvement perpetuel de fidjie (Musique - fidjie L'accès au service, strictement réservé à un public légalement majeur, propose un contenu à caractère érotique, pouvant heurter la sensibilité d'un public non averti. Je certifie sur l'honneur : être majeur(e) selon la loi en vigueur dans mon pays, que les lois de mon Etat m'autorisent à consulter ce service, être informé(e) du caractère érotique du contenu du service, consulter ce service à titre personnel sans impliquer de quelque manière que ce soit une société privée ou un organisme public. Par conséquent, je m'engage à : J'ai lu attentivement les paragraphes ci-dessus et formalise mon accord avec ce qui précède en cliquant sur le bouton [J'ACCEPTE] afin d'accéder au service.
Biodiversity Coral reefs are amongst the most diverse ecosystems on earth. Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life.[1] This can refer to genetic variation, species variation, or ecosystem variation[1] within an area, biome, or planet. Terrestrial biodiversity tends to be highest near the equator,[2] which seems to be the result of the warm climate and high primary productivity.[3] Marine biodiversity tends to be highest along coasts in the Western Pacific, where sea surface temperature is highest and in mid-latitudinal band in all oceans.[4] Biodiversity generally tends to cluster in hotspots,[5] and has been increasing through time[6][7] but will be likely to slow in the future.[8] Rapid environmental changes typically cause mass extinctions.[9][10][11] One estimate is that <1%–3% of the species that have existed on Earth are extant.[12] The United Nations designated 2011–2020 as the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity. Etymology[edit] Definitions[edit] Distribution[edit] Hotspots[edit]
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