We Are in the Midst of Defeating the Largest Corporate Trade Agreement in History November 15, 2013 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. These are times of great secrecy and misinformation. Government and corporations hide their actions to avoid public disapproval and accountability. This week, we learned that a brave whistleblower gave the text of the full intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to Wikileaks. A confluence of events this week has weakened the chances of the TPP’s survival. Opposition to the TPP continues to build. We are in a historic moment of people vs. the corporations. As we write this, Jeremy Hammond, the young man who hacked into the private security firm StratFor’s emails is facing his sentencing hearing and up to ten years in jail. Chris Hedges calls Hammond “one of the nation’s most important political prisoners.”
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Artificial graphene could outperform the real thing A new breed of ultra thin super-material has the potential to cause a technological revolution. “Artificial graphene” should lead to faster, smaller and lighter electronic and optical devices of all kinds, including higher performance photovoltaic cells, lasers or LED lighting. For the first time, scientists are able to produce and have analysed artificial graphene from traditional semiconductor materials. Such is the scientific importance of this breakthrough these findings were published recently in one of the world’s leading physics journals, Physical Review X. A researcher from the University of Luxembourg played an important role in this highly innovative work. Graphene (derived from graphite) is a one atom thick honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms. The University of Luxembourg is heavily involved in cross-border, multidisciplinary research projects. University of Luxembourg researcher Dr.
Can We Be Lovers & Not Have Sex? I want a life of a million lovers. I want to love you. I want to love you if you are male or female, young or old, single or married… When I see you we will embrace and hold a hug long enough to glimpse some insight from each other’s heartbeat. When we walk down the street we shall link arms, pause frequently, and turn our toes and noses towards the other to speak directly without modesty. I would like us to share the couch together, rather than creating a “do not cross” line where we may as well be sitting on brick blocks seated four feet away. I want to show up to you and look into your eyes instead of at your eyes. I would like you to leave our time together feeling loved and free and full of your most vibrant and luscious hue of you-ness. Please do not get confused: I do not want to have sex with you—whether you are male or female. For me, sharing sex with someone requires a certain alignment, and I do not take that lightly. For love is love is love is love, and that is what I want.
Fun, interesting science? 10 amazing online sources In today’s TED Talk, Tyler DeWitt makes a fantastic case for a simple idea: make science fun. Educators and writers get caught up in the idea that science needs to be taken seriously, and forget that the best way to get kids interested is to… make it interesting. Too much emphasis on being accurate can lead to lessons that are incomprehensible, or just flat-out boring. Tyler DeWitt: Hey science teachers -- make it fun“If a young learner thinks that all viruses have DNA, that’s not going to ruin their chances of success in science. Now to the good news. Minute Physics. Vi Hart. It’s OK to be Smart. Comics! I F***ing love science. There are lots of wonderful places to find science news. Of course, there is our very own TED-Ed. There’s also The Story Collider, the story-telling event dedicated to how science makes a difference in lives and changes people.
True facts about Ocean Radiation and the Fukushima Disaster On March 11th, 2011 the Tōhoku earthquake and resulting tsunami wreaked havoc on Japan. It also resulted in the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl when the tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Radioactive particles were released into the atmosphere and ocean, contaminating groundwater, soil and seawater which effectively closed local Japanese fisheries. Rather unfortunately, it has also led to some wild speculation on the widespread dangers of Fukushima radiation on the internet. I’m here to tell you that these posts are just plain garbage. The radioactive rods in the Fukushima power plant are usually cooled by seawater [CORRECTION: they are usually cooled by freshwater. Units of Radiation are confusing. Becquerel[Bq] or Curie[Ci]: radiation emitted from a radioactive material (1 Ci = 3.7 × 1010 Bq) Gray [Gy] or Rad[rad]: radiation absorbed by another material (1Gy = 100 rad) Cesium-137 is product of nuclear fission. I mean I guess this is a bit better.
‘NSA-Proof’ Email Service ‘ProtonMail’ by Harvard and MIT Students becomes massive success | Hack Read Necessity is the mother of invention, the old adage has proved its worth again when a group of Harvard and MIT students came together to create an NSA-proof email service. ProtonMail, the new email platform launched at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) by five security experts ‘who were drawn together by a shared vision of a more secure and private Internet,’ is probably safer and secure than Lavabit, Snowden’s defunct email service. The service has many benefits over conventional email service providers. As the founders explain: They are incorporated in Switzerland, which is well known for offering the strongest privacy protection to both individuals as well as countries. The site uses end-to-end encryption and intense user authentication measures, implying that the data transmitted through their services is inaccessible to the ProtonMail team itself, let alone other people. It is free forever and does not allow tracking or logging of personally identifiable information.
State of Exception in Hamburg From Libcom Over 8,000 protesters have clashed with riot police as they protested against the planned eviction of squatters from a popular social centre, and against the eviction of hundreds of people from heir homes. The largely peaceful protest erupted following a baton charge, and use of teargas, and water cannons by the police. The protesters responded by building barricades, throwing stones, fireworks, and bottles. It is reported that over 500 people has been injured, and around 150 arrests made. The Rote Flora is an old theatre building which has been used as a social centre since 1989. "ESSO Houses is the name of an appartment complex, inhabiting flats, a gas station, two music clubs and some other small businesses. One of the Rote Flora squatters said that: Quote: “There was a mood of aggression from the outset,” adding that “we came under serious attack. Running battles were fought throughout the night across Hamburg. A police spokesperson claims that: Quote:
New class of nanoparticle brings cheaper, lighter solar cells outdoors Think those flat, glassy solar panels on your neighbour’s roof are the pinnacle of solar technology? Think again. Researchers in the University of Toronto’s Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering have designed and tested a new class of solar-sensitive nanoparticle that outshines the current state of the art employing this new class of technology. This new form of solid, stable light-sensitive nanoparticles, called colloidal quantum dots, could lead to cheaper and more flexible solar cells, as well as better gas sensors, infrared lasers, infrared light emitting diodes and more. Collecting sunlight using these tiny colloidal quantum dots depends on two types of semiconductors: n-type, which are rich in electrons; and p-type, which are poor in electrons. “This is a material innovation, that’s the first part, and with this new material we can build new device structures,” said Ning.