Some snippets from a recent Climate Action Network Canada newsletter:
Manitoba has introduced legislation that, if passed, will oblige the province to meet Kyoto accord targets
Youth activists and Raging Grannies protest Conservative party filibuster of the commons environment committee to stymie Jack Layton’s private member’s climate change bill
An audit has revealed that University of Calgary “research” [...]
The Australian Centre for Independent Study (CIS) recently claimed, in an article purporting to debunk “six social policy myths“, that an “egalitarian orthodoxy”, i.e. a systematic and biased belief that inequality is bad, “shapes the public policy agenda in all sorts of ways without people even realising it.”
This is a little bit like claiming that [...]
Charles Babbage was a 19th century chap, credited with having invented the first mechanical computer, and was also the father of Ada Lovelace, considered by some to have been the first computer programmer (avant la lettre).
In 1991, London’s science museum created a working replica of his original Difference Engine (as it was called, a name [...]
The US Library of Congress has a Flickr account (if they do, maybe I should too…), and have a ton of amazing colour photos from the 30s and 40s.
According to the recently published Global Monitoring Report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), most countries will fail to meet the goals by 2015, despite many countries being on-track to halve extreme poverty by that time.
The authors of the report propose a 6-point plan to further efforts to meet the goals, including integration of the [...]
Despite this minor setback, people in the US military were able to keep their cool, and not come to extreme conclusions like, “maybe we shouldn’t put guns on robots.”
Though these friendly looking little guys were pulled from operation, there is no indication that the MQ-9 Reaper airborne wardroids (aka bringers of death from above) have [...]
Following evidence last year from Mike Lockwood at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK that there was no link between the sun’s magnetic activity and global temperatures, the “sun activity” theory received a further blow from research findings by a team from the University of Lancaster.
The U Lancaster team found “no significant link between [...]
The fact that RSS has been around since 1999, yet we still feel the need (and with good reason) to put “what is RSS?” next to our RSS feed buttons (at least, on websites for less technologically-included audiences) suggests that something’s amiss.
As Brian Clark at Copyblogger says, “the public at large either doesn’t care about [...]