Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation The mysteriously funded centrist group is winning ballot access… The dingbats behind “Americans Elect,” a shadowy centrist third-party effort to get an Internet petition onto actual presidential ballots, refuse to reveal who’s funding their efforts, because their donors are very worried that someone might call them dingbats.Via www.salon.com
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Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationRepublicans censor Democracy. Moments later, someone at C-SPAN took to Twitter and explained: “C-SPAN has no control over the U.S. House TV cameras – the Speaker of the House does.” It’s for reasons just like this, one might infer, that Boehner told C-SPAN back in February it would not be allowed control its own…
Via Scoop.it – Creating the FutureHONG KONG (Reuters) – China became the world’s top patent filer in 2011, surpassing the United States and Japan as it steps up innovation to improve its intellectual property rights track record. China is recapitulating the under-developed to developed country evolution but an order of magnitude faster than the last couple of generations of…
Via Scoop.it – Creating the FutureResearchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have reported the first solar cell that produces a photocurrent that has an external quantum efficiency greater than 100 percent when photoexcited with photons from the high energy region of the solar spectrum.Via www.nrel.gov
Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationEtiquette-based prohibitions on speaking ill of the dead should apply to private individuals, not public figures…Via www.salon.com
Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Get Your War On comic nails Hollywood. Why the world is doomed if Hollywood controlled the web (#SOPA passed).Via getyourcensoron.com