Earth Day: Mycelium Running
Lambert here. If your heart goes pit-a-pat when you hear the phrase "mycelial mat," these presentations from mycological entrepreneur Paul Stamets, taken from the Agricultural Innovations podcasts of 2007, are for you.
The Big Picture (hat tip) put up two short, much more focused and, though I say it, investor-friendly TED talks from...
Links 4/17/12
Memory Foraging: When the Brain Behaves Like a Bee Scientific American
On the Border Between Matter and Anti-Matter: Nanoscientists Find Long-Sought Majorana Particle Science Daily (furzy mouse)
All Five Star Trek Captains Unite at London Event Vancou...
Dirk Bezemer: Creating a Socially Useful Financial System
By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Here's more material from this iNet "Paradigm Lost" conference in Berlin (from which Yves has just returned). Hat tips to readers BT and JurisV for suggesting it.
Links 4/15/2012
‘Sounds of Silence’ Proving a Hit: World’s Fastest Random Number Generator Science Daily (Server)
Paper and model show climate impacts of methane leakage from natural gas Environmental Defense Fund
Fracking concerns raised over N.C. h...
Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals
By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Some of us became aware of primatologist Frans de Waal back in 2008 through his concept of inequity aversion:
[W]e did a study in which capuchin monkeys received either a grape or a piece of cucumber for a simple task. If both monkeys got the same reward, there never was a...
The Rule of Capital
By Sell on News, a global macro equities analyst. Cross-posted from Macrobusiness.
In the movie Margin Call, which is broadly about the financial crisis and the insidiousness of the financial sector, one of the characters laments about how he used to be an engineer who did useful things like build bridges (he calculates that...
Michael Hudson: Debt: The Politics and Economics of Restructuring
By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
I imagine there will be more material to come on this year's iNet "Paradigm Lost" conference in Berlin, but for now, here's a teaser in the form of a video of Michael Hudson's talk.
Links 4/14/12
A team of scientists at the MPQ realizes a first elementary quantum network based on interfaces between single atoms and photons Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Julia W)
The World’s First 3-D Chocolate Printer Fast Company
High-frequency trad...
Fukushima Dai-Ichi No. 4: An earthquake before spent fuel rods are moved to safe storage would be “the end”
By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
This clip from TV Asahi is a lucid explanation of the biggest ongoing news story in the world today: The catastrophic consequences if an earthquake strikes the Fukushima Dai-Ichi No. 4 power plant before its spent fuel rods are moved to safe storage place, a process that will not even...
Speculation and Criminal Manipulation of Food and Commodities Prices
Lambert Stether blogs at Corrente.
Yet another market where the rule of law doesn't apply. Check out the video from RNN:
Abigail Field: Hiding the Enforcement Fraud at the Heart of the Mortgage Settlement
By Abigail Caplovitz Field, a freelance writer and attorney who blogs at Reality Check
On Thursday, April 5th U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary M. Collyer announced she had decided to sign off on the "$25 billion" Mortgage Settlement. By "announced", I mean
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