hydroponics is the way forward, maybe with a bit of help from gmos. there are political/economic challenges, though, in preventing corporate dominance....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY7O5YNxKuI
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/18/saudi_arabia_rejects_security_council_seat
....or perhaps to create drugs that eliminate the necessity for sleep?
http://medx.cc/301207002
previously assumed by who? i'm all about the tabula rasa...
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2013/10/17/the-heritability-of-intelligence-not-what-you-think/?WT.mc_id=SA_facebook
kind of specious, considering the limits inherent to dna tests.
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/09012013/article/ancient-human-crossed-ocean-barrier
so, your brain is like flash memory?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=important-new-theory-explains-where-old-memories-go&WT.mc_id=SA_MindFacebook
this explains british paranoia over soviet influence in india in the interwar period.
http://digitool.library.colostate.edu/exlibris/dtl/d3_1/apache_media/L2V4bGlicmlzL2R0bC9kM18xL2FwYWNoZV9tZWRpYS8xMTk0ODc=.pdf
i'm not following the logic here. if they really wanted to stop the attacks, wouldn't they just pull out? that being said, i'm not particularly keen about sharia law, either.
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/16/ban_declares_war_on_al_shabab
see, this is the dialectic i want to see - just on the other side of the spectrum.
http://jacobinmag.com/2013/10/greeces-fascist-threat/
"This study looked at how people feel after an immoral act that doesn’t seem to harm anyone." well, if it doesn't harm anyone, why is it immoral? silly study.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/study-people-love-to-cheat/280587/
well, teleology is one of those things that aristotle had good deductive reasons for, but isn't very naturalistic. evolutionary biologists are careful to try and avoid this. however, it still saturates the field as an unstated and often unnoticed assumption.
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-evolution-one-way-road-complexity.html
http://www.nature.com/news/skull-suggests-three-early-human-species-were-one-1.13972?WT.mc_id=FBK_NPG_1310_NatureNews
well, they need to test it before they go around making statements like this.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=tying-light-in-knots-slide-show&WT.mc_id=SA_facebook
i called this. nice to see that the field is catching up to me...i might have to delve back in soon to get a few steps ahead of them.
http://scim.ag/19Q4dto
ok, but this is obvious and it's true of virtually everything. the question is if you can make the disturbance insignificant or not.
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-physicists-heisenberg-intuition.html
this is a big deal, for something that was obvious.
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/09012013/article/skull-find-key-to-understanding-early-human-ancestor-species
a game-theoretic analysis of gandhi's tactics. i dig this.
http://central.d127.org/library/classprojects/gandhi/Documents/GandhisNonVioasaTactic.pdf