America has two economies | 6 Nov |
—and they’re diverging fast. Beautiful graphics thast explain the differences between the parties and sections of these Divided States of America. |
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Banking for the People | 31 Oct |
“It is long past time to open doors for people who have been systematically shut out and provide a better option...” |
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Better to Plant Trees or Let Forests Regrow? | 31 Oct |
Sometimes, we just need to give nature room to grow back naturally. A new global study that finds the potential for natural forest regrowth to absorb atmospheric carbon and fight climate change has been seriously underestimated. |
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Why We Aren’t Taxing the Very Rich | 11 Mar |
The Only Thing Stopping Us From Taxing the Rich Is Political Will:
Meet Gabriel Zucman, the rock star economist behind the wealth tax. |
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Kurzweil on nanobots | 11 Mar |
The most important application of the medical nanorobots is that we will connect the top layers of our neocortex to synthetic neocortex in the cloud. |
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Kurzweil on nanobots | 11 Mar |
The most important application of the medical nanorobots is that we will connect the top layers of our neocortex to synthetic neocortex in the cloud. |
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Kurzweil on nanobots | 11 Mar |
The most important application of the medical nanorobots is that we will connect the top layers of our neocortex to synthetic neocortex in the cloud. |
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Why We Aren’t Taxing the Very Rich | 20 Feb |
The Only Thing Stopping Us From Taxing the Rich Is Political Will:
Meet Gabriel Zucman, the rock star economist behind the wealth tax. |
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NPR’s Egregious Sanders Take-down | 20 Feb |
Truthdig fact checks two chatty NPR bloviators who overstate the case against Bernie. In the end it seems to have worked! |
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Diamandis: Education at all ages | 8 Mar |
Today, over 77 percent of Americans own a smartphone with access to the world’s information and near-limitless learning resources.
Yet nearly 36 million adults in the U.S. are constrained by low literacy skills, excluding them from pro |
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