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Birke Baehr – Ted Talk -”What’s Wrong With Our Food System? And How Can We Make A Difference?”

admin — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:32:08 +0000

Birke Baehr -”what’s Wrong With Our Food System? And How Can We Make A Difference?”
Ted Talks: The Next Generation

From the series: Teenagers Inspiring Positive Change

“They are the next generation of thinkers, artists, scientists, social activists and entrepreneurs.”

Pentagon Tours Colleges To Re-build Relationships

admin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:45:23 +0000

Regina E. Dugan, the Director of the Pentagon’s research section(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), has began to tour college campuses to build research relationships. With the Bush Administration secrecy was the modus-operandi. The Pentagon must put it’s best foot forward to win back these relationships with the scholarly world.

So far the schools listed on the tour include: University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University; the University of California, Los Angeles; Virginia Tech; Texas A&M, and the California Institute of Technology.

Secrecy was not the only reason for the severance of Pentagon / university relationships. Under the leadership of Anthony J. Tether, a number of controversial research projects were the focus of the government, which included the proposed Total Information Awareness system.

Iowa School System Considering Buying Cell Phone Jammers

admin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:12:01 +0000

If deemed legal, an Iowa school system may purchase cell phone jamming equipment. Earlier this month, the school system passed a motion to allocate 5000 dollars to purchase technology to block cell phone signals at school.

The school would require that the cell phone jamming equipment would need to be capable of turning off easily and instantly should there be an emergency.

In 2005, a Federal Communications Commission law banned sale and use of transmitters that block cellular or personal communications signals.