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Dutch Pirate Party Joins Election Race
2009 was a breakthrough year for the Pirate Party movement. With more than 7 percent of the vote, the Swedish Pirate Party secured two seats in the European Parliament. A few weeks later, the Pirates in Germany entered the local Parliament after a member of another party switched sides.
Continue reading »Behavioral efforts, not money, will drive energy efficiency
When it comes to reducing carbon emissions, most of the attention has focused on new technologies like renewable power and electric vehicles, as well as their associated costs. But study after study shows that we can save both energy and a significant amount of cash through the use of energy efficiency technology that’s already on the market. A Policy Forum in today’s issue of Science suggests that the bottleneck isn’t so much technological or economic as it is behavioral, and argues that the US needs to start performing tests of behavior-oriented programs.
Continue reading »Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde Starts Money Sharing Site
Computers and the Internet have made it extremely easy for anyone to produce content, and distribute it to millions of users. Musicians and movie makers can share their work with the rest of the world with very little investment, something that was impossible little over a decade ago. Similarly, weblogs are able to provide news and information much faster than old media at relatively low costs.
Continue reading »NASA reboots, focuses on cheaper, sustainable exploration
Last October, NASA received a committee report that called existing planning “unsustainable.” The agency couldn’t even budget the money to deorbit the International Space Station as planned in 2016—itself a waste of the construction costs—and the vehicles needed for its planned return to the moon wouldn’t be ready by the 2030s… “if ever,” in the committee’s words. So today, NASA administrator Charles Bolden announced a new five-year budget plan that significantly changes the nation’s spaceflight priorities.
Continue reading »Apple’s iPad – the tablet with the data center soul
We want your eyeballs. And your money Comment The soul of Apple’s soon-to-be-unveiled iPad won’t reside in Cupertino. You’ll find it in Catawba County, North Carolina.…
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