Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene
Update: To image leaky atmosphere, NASA rocket team heads north — ScienceDaily In the future, the Earth System could potentially follow many trajectories (12,
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Demography
Jeremy Rifkin: The third industrial revolution
We need to implement reglobalization from the bottom-up in order to achieve a more sustainable global economy. Geopolitics is an extension of the
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Scarcity Bites – A Decade Too Soon!
Peak Plutonium? It is our contention that energy is not the only resource that will be scarce in the immediate future. We envisage
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Nature: 2020 visions
For the first issue of the new decade, Nature asked a selection of leading researchers and policy-makers where their fields will be ten
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Future Shock (1972)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ghzomm15yE] Documentary based on the book with the same name by Alvin Toffler, narrated by Orson Welles.
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Europe of the future: Germany shrinks, France grows, but UK population booms
Britain will overtake Germany and France to become the biggest country in the EU in 50 years’ time, according to population projections unveiled
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UK population may double by 2081
The previously unpublished figures suggest the British population could hit almost 110m in 2081, if immigration fertility and longevity rates are high. Source:
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s Search for Biological Immortality
Most recently, Dr. Gupta embarked upon a remarkable quest to investigate “new discoveries in the search for immortality to help you age less
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The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering
Three years ago in The Atlantic, the Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel wrote a critique of genetic engineering titled “The Case Against Perfection.” Now
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The Commercialization of Eugenics
The recent book by Debora L Spar, The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception, is exceptional in
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