by Rajiv | Oct 30, 2012 | Economy, Technology
I recently read an article in Fortune magazine that keeps creeping back into my thoughts. It was a short profile on a farming business in Illinois, and how they are using data science to improve their crop yields. The article says, ” Jeff Hodel farms 6,000...
by Miles_Mason | Oct 22, 2012 | Environment, Geoengineering, Technology
Russ George is a geoengineer who has received quite a bit of attention this week for recently dumping hundreds of tons of iron sulfate into the ocean in an effort to encourage plankton population growth. He has been painted as a criminal, despite the fact that he is...
by Miles_Mason | Sep 29, 2012 | Environment, Genetic Engineering, Technology
Extinction is one of the most extreme forms of scarcity. As such, environmental groups have been using the looming specter of species extinction and the subsequent loss of biodiveristy as a pathos-driven moral high ground to unleash a vicious cycle of...
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