The problem isn't optimization of the kind that you're talking about, with traffic. Greenfield is concerned because the smart city extends the logic of traffic optimization to everything: pedestrians, governments, law enforcement. He's worried that parts of the city's social life will be destroyed by making them…

Seems appropriate to link to this article here.

Really? This is what keeps you up at night? You know besides months, US states also have "official" birds and flowers, right? I say go bolder on your crusade, don't start with a kids magazine that is finding a fun, FUN, way to learn the different names of gems. But seriously, you may want to tune down your histeria,…

Are we American's so disconnected that we don't get that much of China's pollution is directly related to production for American consumption?

"The Universe vibrates complete. With some it is a sound so sweet. Vibrations reach out to become light, then through gamma and out of sight. To name this sound is important to some, so they give it a word and the word is AUM." The Moody Blues 1971

Looser logic, through chemistry.

While I applaud this in the way I applaud the "dihydrogen monoxide" hoaxes, I still think the ingredient list in a banana would be something like "banana, peel, seed."

definite misdirection. nothing to worry about here.

THANK YOU. I was looking for this but after 5 mins I gave up and posted this:

I think you're absolutely right, but with this crowd you'll have to keep this up all night. They want to feel superior to creationists; it's not enough to feel differently than the creationists, to these people, the creationists have to be wrong.

I wouldn't worry about it. Just take heart with this little snippet from Dean Radin:

Insensitivity over a serious occurrence noted. The levity was over the general subject but in poor taste none the less. Apologies.

Rather sure that Rupert Sheldrake (Cambridge & Harvard), Dead Radin (IONS), Russell Targ (CIA), Thomas Campbell (NASA), Hal Puthoff (SRI), F Homes Atwater (ARMY), the entire Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab (...at Princeton) The Rhine Center, and a few dozen more homies and places in the US alone would…

This just in: And so is transhumanism, added scientists

The real BS here is the title. I note the use of the word "debunkery," so in that same spirit, the title is a fraud and a trick, because the article itself says absolutely nothing about ESP of the sort explored by J.B. Rhine at Duke University, among others. The article itself merely suggests that there is a limited…

I think there are more things on this planet than science could ever explain. This study doesn't disprove or prove anything, only that the mind has capabilities we don't fully understand.

This study has nothing whatever to do with "ESP". Awful article.

So, to clarify: a test of something that isn't precognition disproves precognition? Gotcha.

Isn't this more an example of a misunderstood study?

I don't think cost-effectiveness is the only criteria to be considered here.

Ah, Next Gen. Even more gray, brown, gritty, and depressing.