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• in Travel
  Large and Dangerous Volcano Awakes in Iceland
  Airlines brace for Katla fallout: More air traffic disruptions possible.
  by goldnugget / on Oct 15, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “disruption”

 

• Reminder: Argyll Ferries on ‘refit’ service schedule

  
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  As we have been informing for some time now in our Today’s Travel Updates section, Argyll Ferries moves into a reduced service schedule tomorrow, 13th May, during the annual refit for the Argyll Flyer, one of the two passenger ferries serving the Gourock-Dunoon route. Because of this essential and pre-planned ...
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• Orangutans are victims of ‘sustainable’ palm oil as rainforest is razed – ‘All of the animals on the plantation are threatened. The company must therefore stop clearing the rainforest immediately.’

  
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  (Rainforest Rescue) – Perched atop the remains of the last tree, an orangutan looks helplessly on what was until recently the forest he was living in but is now only ruins. Armed with chainsaws and bulldozers, workers of Bumitama Gunajaya Agro (BGA), a palm oil company, have completely destroyed the rainforest for ...
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• How student debt will change our economy and so our culture

  
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  "Mr. Gill owes about $45,000 in federal student loans, plus another $40,000 to his parents. That investment in his future has led to a secure job with decent pay and good benefits. But it has left him with tremendous financial constraints, as he faces chipping away at the debt for years on end. The Federal Reserve ...
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• "[W]hen profound social transformation does occur… it’s likely to take an entirely different form..."

  
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  “[W]hen profound social transformation does occur… it’s likely to take an entirely different form [than seizure of power].” - David Graeber
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• Youth unemployment - weep for our kids

  
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  This is why I wrote my book - You Dont Need a Job - there is no point is just hoping for the best or complaining. We have to rethink our world. More here on employment around the world.  Pew just show that youth unemployment is 37% in the US.  "37% of 18- to 29-year-olds are unemployed or out of the ...
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• Peak climate disruption

  
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  If we still had a functional BigMedia, this would be leading the nightly newscasts. Instead theyll be doing wall to wall coverage of BENGHAZZZZZZzzzzzzi, while our planet Earth burns . The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, ...
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• Atmospheric carbon dioxide rises to 400 parts per million for the first time in human history – ‘We are creating a prehistoric climate in which human societies face huge and potentially catastrophic risks’

  
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  By Kerry Sheridan 10 May 2013 WASHINGTON (AFP) – The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has broken above 400 parts per million for the first time in human history, US monitors announced Friday, indicating a record level for greenhouse gases. Climate scientists say that the symbolic threshold should serve ...
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• Social Media Stars Killed Social Media

  
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  Social Media Stars Killed Social Media The days of the social media rockstar are drawing to a close. We’re starting to see the end of social media as a standalone, magical mysterious thing that we do — something every startup embraced, every small business resisted, and every corporation fled from in fear — ...
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• Video: Timelapse satellite views of human destruction of the biosphere over three decades

  
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  By Jeffrey Kluger (TIME) – Spacecraft and telescopes are not built by people interested in what’s going on at home. Rockets fly in one direction: up. Telescopes point in one direction: out. Of all the cosmic bodies studied in the long history of astronomy and space travel, the one that got the least attention ...
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• ‘Why I 3D printed an iPhone shoe’ | Video

  
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  BBC News – ‘Why I 3D printed an iPhone shoe’ .
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• The Disruption Of Education-From AVC: ‘Video Of The Week: Mark Suster Interview of Clayton Christensen’

  
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  Post here . That’s a VC, or Fred Wilson , venture capitalist (comments are definitely worth a read). As Christensen  argues in the startupgrind video below, universities have competed together to move upmarket, with rock walls , high-end facilities, and more and more amenities .  All the while, they’ve ...
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• Embrace Self-Disruption Using the Business Model Canvas

  
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  Your business is unsustainable in its present form. It doesn’t matter what you make, or sell, or offer. If you continue to embrace “business as usual,” you are doomed. That was Alexander Osterwalders message for his keynote at the Front End of Innovation conference in Boston. Continue reading →
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• Climate Science for Everyone: how much heat can the air and ocean store?

  
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  Water stores a lot more energy than air does. So when energy stored in the oceans is released back into the atmosphere, the results are dramatic.
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• Decline in snow cover spells trouble for many plants, animals – ‘Snow cover is becoming shorter, thinner, and less predictable. We’re seeing a trend. The subnivium is in retreat.’

  
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  By Terry Devitt 6 May 2013 (UW–Madison) – For plants and animals forced to tough out harsh winter weather, the coverlet of snow that blankets the north country is a refuge, a stable beneath-the-snow habitat that gives essential respite from biting winds and subzero temperatures. But in a warming world, ...
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• The Dark Side of #EDTECH & #MOOCS

  
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  Thinking about the negative implications of innovation and technology on campus. From Marc Perry at Chronicle of Higher Education: Companies, colleges, and columnists gush about the utopian possibilities of technology. But digital life has a bleaker side, too. Over the weekend, a cross-disciplinary group of ...
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• Vocational Training The Missing Middle?

  
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  Andrea Bohnstedt writes : ...I think vocational training is something that the new government should urgently look at, and not just fleetingly, but in depth. Better skills will allow more value creation through all sectors, help build stronger companies, and create more and better-paid employment. This is also ...
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• Flood protection – how to make sure it doesn’t sink your business

  
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  A Soggy Outlook 2012 was one of the wettest years on record . O ver 52 inches of rainfall splashed down on Britain, despite the country experiencing a drought over the first three months. Over 8,000 homes and businesses were battered by heavy rain, storms and flash floods. UK agriculture suffered as crops were ...
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• 3D Printed Gun Sparks Debate

  
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  This week’s 3D printing headlines illustrate that the revolutionary technology can be both a blessing and a curse. The world’s first fully 3D-printed gun “The Liberator” was successfully test-fired, setting off alarm bells with congressman like Steve Israel who vowed to ban such firearms.  Just days later ...
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• Indigenous occupation of Belo Monte dam site enters sixth day – Government refuses to negotiate, ejects journalists from site on World Press Freedom Day

  
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  By Lucy Jordan 7 May 2013 BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL (The Rio Times) – The federal government said Monday it would not negotiate with indigenous groups which on Tuesday entered their sixth day of occupying the controversial Belo Monte dam construction site. In the inflammatory statement, the Secretariat General of the ...
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• Giant swamp rats are literally eating Louisiana – ‘I just don’t know how these people who love their home so much are going to go on living here’

  
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  By Joanna M. Foster 7 May 2013 (Takepart.com) – On the southern edge of Louisiana, there is almost as much water as land. You cant drive to anyones house, you have to travel by boat, and sometimes there are hours of water between neighbors. It takes a special breed to make a home here, in the swamp , amongst the ...
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