Population growth and climate change explained by Hans Rosling 

Inca Tern: The Magnificently Mustached Bird

Seen on: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/inca-tern-mustache-bird

Photo credit: Salamander Photography

Big Data, Small Government? Or What Happens When We Expect Silicon Valley to Do the Job of Politicians

More information theRSA

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Researchers at the International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology (aka, BIOFAB) have just announced that they have, in effect, established rules for the first language for engineering gene expression, the layer between the genome and all the dynamic processes of life…

… allowing researchers to engineer the function of DNA more precisely, and to better predict the resultant behavior.

More info: http://biofab.org/content/bootstrapping-biotechnology-engineers-cooperate-realize-precision-grammar-programming-cells

We know what cybercrime looks like, but what about cyber war?

Yves Daccord is the Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross Directorate at TEDxHelvetia.

John Cleese on creativity and productivity

The key to get in a creative state, is to avoid interruptions.

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Beautiful video: “The Shoemaker” by Dustin Cohen.

More info: http://dustincohen.com/

"Drones are just the latest in a long line of military technologies augmenting the process of death-dealing, but they are among the most efficient, the most distancing, the most invisible. These qualities allow them to do what they do unseen, and create the context for secret, unaccountable, endless wars."