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Densely-linked cluster of 147 companies control 40% of world’s total wealth – Boing Boing

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation…it found much of it tracked back to a “super-entity” of 147 even more tightly knit companies – all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity – that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. “In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to…

W. enters my wife’s schoolboard race

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Our family gets a close-up look of how big money has taken over politics — even at the local level…Show original

Robot Builds Itself With Foam : Discovery News

Via Scoop.it – Creating the FutureThe Modular Robotics Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, in a project led by Shai Revzen, has created a robot that can be assembled from foam that hardens and pieces that allow the robot to move. The “foambot” looks ungainly, and it is. But once you have a shape — and a task — in…

Student loan debts crush an entire generation

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Hyped like subprime mortgages, school loans now run to hundreds of billions with no relief in sight…Show original