Month: November 2017

Can Cuba preserve ecosystems while profiting from tourism?

11.09.17.

For more, go to: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/can-cuba-preserve-ecosystems-while-profiting-from-tourism
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Network The Earth

11.05.17.

Farming used to be about luck. And until the invention of nitrogen-based fertilizers, which allowed the average farmer to get nearly twice as much food out of the ground, bad luck could spell disaster, maybe even death. Those dark days seem to be behind us. But the explosive reproductive power of humans means our population…
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Why The AI Revolution Is Happening Now

11.05.17.

Right now, saying the words “artificial intelligence” at the end of a business pitch is one of the quickest ways to fool a roomful of people into handing you money. The power of the phrase is so intoxicating that in 2016, at NIPS, a top academic conference for artificial intelligence, a group of friends sent…
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The Internet of Things Touches Everything

11.05.17.

Take everything you own — your reading lamp, your toaster, the door of your home — and add wi-fi capability to each one, maybe add a few sensors as well. Imagine that instead of living in a world where you have to flip everything on and off, it’s all a coordinated network of gadgets and…
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Make The Web Faster For Some, Or Free For All?

11.05.17.

Net neutrality sounds boring and complicated, but it’s actually a red-hot controversy that’s pretty easy to understand. Basically, when the Internet was invented, the idea was that every piece of information should move across it at the same speed, so that anyone who wanted to put up a site could reach the world just as…
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Storm-proofing New York is slow going five years since Superstorm Sandy

11.02.17.

For more, go to: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/storm-proofing-new-york-is-slow-going-five-years-since-superstorm-sandy
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