Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationChina Digital Times verifies a long list of banned keywords on Sina Weibo’s search function that combine “occupy” (占领) with a place name inside China: “provincial capitals, economically developed regions, and few symbolic local areas.”Show original
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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
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…
Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Hyped like subprime mortgages, school loans now run to hundreds of billions with no relief in sight…Show original
Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation OWS supporter Lisa Simeone says she was dismissed after right-wing attacks… “I said, ‘Can you explain how?’” Simeone went on. “Scott Simon writes Op-Eds. Cokie Roberts [is paid] tens of thousand of dollars in fees talking to business groups. Moira Ellison goes on Fox TV to express her opinions. They all report on the…
Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation At first sight, it’s hard to understand why the Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission, a homeless shelter and clinic in Louisiana, would lobby the Federal Communications Commission.Show original