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Friday, September 26, 2008, 07:00 PM: Truthiness and Agnotology
Does the massive increase in communications, brought about by cable and satellite television, and, especially, the internet, help us find truth?
Or does it help spread doubt, confusion, lies, mythology, crackpot conspiracy theories, and the like? As internet bandwidth continues its upward spiral into the future, what should we expect in the future?
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Overpopulation
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"The Planet"
is a Swedish
campaign to enhance public awareness of the planet Earth; to show its limits, wonders, possibilities.
It is produced by Swedish public service television.
This is a Flash app -- when you use it, make sure you hit the back arrow inside the app, otherwise if you use the browser's back arrow, you will get popped outside of the app completely.
To get started, I suggest you click on "The Big Picture", then "The Current State", then "Great Acceleration". You can see many of the trends we talk about at the future salon there.
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The US government had implemented sophisticated surveillance and apprehension technology to stem the influx of immigrants. The number of Border Patrol agents tripled from 1993 to 2006, and spending on border enforcement grew six-fold during this period.
These activities have managed only to affect the strategies used by illegal entrants to cross the border – such as changing their border-crossing points– but did not deter them from attempting clandestine entry.
The results of this study imply that the current US immigration control policy is unlikely to have its desired effect unless underlying drivers of migration—the employer demand for unauthorized immigrant labor and the U.S.-Mexico wage gap—are addressed.
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Arkansas mom gives birth to a whole freakin' baseball team. How deeply should you cringe?
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