Industrial Revolution

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• Temperance in America: The Basics of an Enduring Philosophy

  
  History Blog — Authority: 120
  Temperance may be defined as: moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful. On November 10, 1891, the first meeting of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was held in Boston, Massachusetts. The meeting signaled a new era of social responsibility and the beginning of ...
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• 2000-Year Arctic Cooling Trend Reversed Itself Near Turn of 20th Century

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 602
  Bylot Ice Cap on Bylot Island, one of the Canadian Arctic Islands, August 14, 1975 (USGS) The Arctic: Cooling No More. A group of climatologists at Northern Arizona University are confirming that 2000 years ago, the Earth’s Arctic region had already entered a prolonged cooling phase. The phase continued up ...
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• 2000-Year Arctic Cooling Trend Reversed Itself Near Turn of 20th Century

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 161
  Bylot Ice Cap on Bylot Island, one of the Canadian Arctic Islands, August 14, 1975 (USGS) The Arctic: Cooling No More. A group of climatologists at Northern Arizona University are confirming that 2000 years ago, the Earth’s Arctic region had already entered a prolonged cooling phase. The phase continued up ...
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• Oct. 28, 1793: Whitney’s Cotton Gin Patent Not Worth Much

  
  This Day In Tech — Authority: 639
  1793: Eli Whitney applies to patent his new invention: a machine that quickly separates cotton seeds from cotton fibers. The cotton gin was the little engine that could — and did — transform the economy of the South and change the course of American history. Young Whitney wanted to become a lawyer but first ...
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• What are we doing in Afghanistan?

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 523
  I think it’s pretty well accepted that Al Qaeda has left Afghanistan. They’ve tucked themselves into the western portion of Pakistan like a tick. So, although the Taliban are an oppressive regime, our goal is not to eliminate the Taliban, is it? We must remember that Afghanistan is much less than a third world ...
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• Will the Writing Revolution Beget a Social Revolution?

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 584
  Is the revolution in authorship and writing going to lead to more social upheaval? Two scholars argue it may well be the case.
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• Bioreactor. “… flow of gasoline directly from sunlight and CO2 using a symbiotic system of two organisms …”

  
  Biotech — Authority: 131
  U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has informed:“After World War II, America was the unrivaled leader in basic and applied sciences.”“It was this leadership that led to enormous technological advances. ARPA-E is a crucial part of the new effort by the U.S. to spur the next Industrial Revolution in clean energy ...
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• Cory Doctorow. Makers

  
  Barbecue Grills Plus Cover — Authority: 148
  Cory Doctorow. Makers (Tor, 2009). The major themes I’ve written about here lately — the decline of traditional mass-production industry, the crisis of value and shift of production outside the cash nexus, the rise of micromanufacturing (see “ The Homebrew Industrial Revolution “), the digital/network culture ...
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• Green technologies imperative by 2014 to prevent climate calamity: WWF

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 611
  According to a report issued by the international environmental group WWF, green technologies offer the hope in averting climate disaster but the ultimate deadline for committing to these technologies is 2014. The group has come up with the conclusion that should the world miss the said deadline, runaway global ...
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• Americans blow hot and cold on global warming

  
  TECH.BLORGE.com — Authority: 566
  Is Planet Earth gradually warming up? If so, is this as a direct result of the activities of humanity? Those are two very simple yet hugely important questions being asked around [...]
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• An Investment Megatrend

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 640
  In order to meet global electricity demand, we’ll need to build the equivalent of one large power plant every week for the next 20 years. And that says nothing for the infrastructure that goes with that — such as the miles of transmission lines. The big emerging markets are still in the early stages of a kind of ...
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