Ebola, economic stagnation and Peak Oil
The global geopolitical situation is slowly detoriating as the Eurozone states and the US/Euro/Japan show diminishing returns on their zero interest rate policy. Sweden lowers interest
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Ebola – inside the outbreak
The current Ebola epidemic in West Africa has killed 3.439 people and is decleared a global health threat by WHO. UPDATE: Ebola crisis: First
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Artificial cells, Russian missile test and the tragedy of Rotherham
The future of cities: Smart grids and open source governance Singapore to calibrate involvement in India’s Smart Cities project – Channel NewsAsia Future:
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Exit Strategies, Survivalism and the Prospect of Superintelligence
Ill. Cosmic Megastructure Could We Build a Dyson Sphere? – Popular Mechanics Is the western world running out of moves on the grand chess
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Ukraine, Iraq and Ebola – heading for the perfect storm?
Meanwhile in the U.S.: Ferguson riots have left a ‘deep wound’ across America, Missouri governor says via The Telegraph. The expression a “perfect
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Chinese water pollution, Ukraine Civil War, the Middle East disintegrates and Ebola looms
Water pollution in China As the current outlook for the global security situation worsens the Plausible Futures Newsletter keeps covering the news and scenarios.
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Special Report: Ebola Outbreak of 2014
Feeling The Heat, Burning The Suits (image from NPR) The World Health Organisation reported that as of July 17 there had been 1,048 cases
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Robotics, Quantum Computing and Transhumanism
Enjoy this weeks roundup of the current situation ranging from robotics via quantum computing to the philosophy of transhumanism. The Robots Running
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Synthetic Biology: Microbes defy rules of DNA
Recoding could stop synthetic organisms from sharing their modified DNA, as happens when a virus (red) infects a bacterium (green). The instructions encoded
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