pa·tience// ˈpāSHəns
- The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.
- Synonyms: forbearance – endurance – sufferance – solitaire
“Everything is connected” – Ban Ki-moon urges the developed world to innovate sustainably
Speaking at Davos this year:
The Secretary General of the UN has told industrial leaders they have a social and moral duty to innovate, in the drive to turn around the global financial crisis.
Ban Ki-moon said that many countries were calling for the economy to be revitalised, social inequality to be addressed and the planet to be saved.
Mr Ban said that sustainable development would be a priority for the UN in addressing these issues.
via BBC
An earlier speech on sustainable development in September of 2011:
"Everything is connected" – Ban Ki-moon urges the developed world to innovate sustainably
Speaking at Davos this year:
The Secretary General of the UN has told industrial leaders they have a social and moral duty to innovate, in the drive to turn around the global financial crisis.
Ban Ki-moon said that many countries were calling for the economy to be revitalised, social inequality to be addressed and the planet to be saved.
Mr Ban said that sustainable development would be a priority for the UN in addressing these issues.
via BBC
An earlier speech on sustainable development in September of 2011:
What roads would look like if dominated by bikes not cars
via Joel Epstein
National Signing Day – February 1st – get your fax machines ready
Today is NLI 2012 and unless you’re a crazy fan of college football you didn’t know that!
NLI stands for National Letter of Intent and the first day a recruit can send this in is on February 1. The letter binds the student to school, they cannot switch without incurring stiff penalties, and the school to offer a 1-year scholarship.
Today several thousand high school athletes will commit to a university and prepare to join their new college teams.
I like to think of it as the college football draft. You could also call it the start of the next college football season.
It’s kinda funny in that a signature is required and so today, all across America, college coaches are sitting in front of fax machines. Grown men staring at fax machines waiting for young adults to make or break their career. Yes it’s silly, but fun!
A music video to learn the primary colors with OK Go and Sesame Street
Between performing a dance routine on a group of treadmills and setting up an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine, the rock band OK Go has produced some of the most imaginative and refreshingly fun music videos of the last few years. So when Sesame Workshop decided to make a new video explaining the primary colors to young children, we knew exactly who to ask.
Today we released the music video for the “3 Primary Colors Song,” in which Damian Kulash, Tim Nordwind, Dan Konopka and Andy Ross of the band OK Go help kids learn the colors red, blue and yellow and which colors they make when mixed together. We also released a game starring OK Go that allows kids to mix the colors however they want and make a painting of their own.
If you like this also check out Will.i.am singing with the muppets – “I will always be the best me I can be.”
Around the world social network usage is rising, especially in Egypt and Russia
From the Pew Global Attitudes Project:
In 15 of 21 countries, at least 25% of those polled use social networking sites.
Israel (53%) and the U.S. (50%) top the list.
About four-in-ten of all adults in Britain (43%), Russia (43%), Spain (42%), Lithuania (39%) and Poland (39%). Among this group, Russia is the only country where nearly all internet users are on social networking sites. Only 6% of Russian internet users say they do not go on these sites.
Germany, France, and Japan are the only countries polled where more internet users say they do not go on social networking sites than say they do. While 35% of Germans use social networking sites, 44% go online but do not use such sites; the comparable numbers are 35% and 38% in France and 25% and 33% in Japan.
About three-in-ten are on social networking sites in Ukraine (30%), Turkey (29%), Jordan (29%), and Egypt (28%).
Social networking is generally more common in higher income nations; however, this is largely driven by the fact that wealthier countries have higher rates of internet access. People in lower income nations who have online access use social networking at rates that are as high, or higher, than those found in affluent countries.
In most of the countries surveyed, there has been only marginal change in social networking use since 2010. Two notable exceptions are Egypt and Russia – countries where the role of social media in recent political upheaval has been the subject of considerable attention. In both nations, usage has increased by ten percentage points over the past year, from 18% in 2010 to 28% in 2011 in Egypt and from 33% to 43% in Russia.
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New Star Wars T-Shirts for the release of Episode 1 in 3D — by web designers
R2 Graffiti – Artoo is conflicted. He hates it when taggers mistake him for a mailbox, but at the same time… street art is in right now, he looks kind of dope. Designed by Reece Ward.
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Inside an artists studio – Anish Kapoor
Is the nuclear industry suffering from “regulatory capture”?
I was doing a little research on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission when I found the following statement:
“Some observers have criticized the Commission as an example of regulatory capture“
Just what does that mean?
In economics, regulatory capture occurs when a state regulatory agency created to act in the public interest instead advances the commercial or special interests that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating. Regulatory capture is a form of government failure, as it can act as an encouragement for large firms to produce negative externalities. The agencies are called “captured agencies”.
via Wikipedia
Sounds eerily similar to what happened with Wall Street and the housing market.
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If you’re interested in learning more about how this can happen the NY Times has a great article on regulatory capture:
“The commission’s defenders often argue that it must be cautious because increased costs from safety requirements could kill the nuclear power industry. But the cost of generating electricity from existing plants is actually low: the construction expenses have been paid off and running them is relatively cheap. Requiring the operators of plants to install new safety systems would not result in them being shut down…”