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- What would we do without bees?In Climate & Geoengineering·February 7, 2022Unfortunately, the bee population is rapidly declining. To reverse the decline of bees, organisations are looking into technology to analyse ecosystems and create innovative tools to face this problem. For instance, the World Hive Network©, a global network of beehives, collects data found with the help of AI, IoT and Big Data to monitor and improve the health of bees and consequently the environment. This Network offers researchers, policy makers, beekeepers and farmers valuable insights to ensure sustainable practises and ecosystems. "For the global community we offer a ground-breaking solution, the world’s first global bee health data platform that can also connect people to the global movement to protect pollinators. The World Hive Network© is the first and the most ambitious effort ever undertaken to track the health of the global honey bee and eventually wild bee populations. We are building a system that will connect the world’s beehives to a single global network. As well as directly safeguarding bees it will harness the power of bee derived intelligence for solutions to wider issues of biodiversity, climate change, food security and human wellbeing." Source: https://worldbeeproject.org/2020/12/08/world-hive-network/ #bees #pollution #biodiversity #climatechange106
- HOW CLOSE ARE WE TO FUSION POWER?In Hydrogen·March 28, 2022"Since the first laboratory demonstration of a fusion reaction in the early 1930s, scientists have been trying to figure out how to harness the kind of energy that powers the Sun and the stars. A fusion device that produces more power than required to sustain the reaction—a result called net energy—is the holy grail. The power would be clean, reliable, and inexhaustible. It would generate significantly more power per kilogram of fuel than any other source in our grasp, including nuclear fission. What’s more, it wouldn’t emit a drop of particulate matter, carbon dioxide, or any other noxious byproduct. So far, no one has managed it. But we’re closer than you might think." Source: https://www.cosmopolitanglobalist.com/how-close-are-we-to-fusion-power/ #Fusion #FusionPower106
- How serious is climate change?In Climate & Geoengineering·February 15, 2022How Bad Is the Western Drought? Worst in 12 Centuries, Study Finds. - The New York Times (nytimes.com)1012
- We are just past the half-way markIn Towards a Global Science ·February 16, 2022In 2011 the International Science Council published its scenarios for 2031. The half way mark is a good point to reflect on past foresight foresight-report-1.pdf (council.science)1014
- Global science and global goodIn Towards a Global Science ·February 17, 2022In this post I would like to begin to outline a vision of global science as a force for the global good. A vision that is built on the belief that reason and truth must be important values in global affairs and that a global scientific community is the best way to ensure that these values are upheld. Seeds of this vision are found in interventions of scientists in world affairs such as the recent letter of Nobel Prize Winners that "calls on all countries to jointly reduce military spending by 2% each year and instead contribute to a global fund to tackle climate change, pandemics and extreme poverty" (Put defence money into planetary emergencies, urge Nobel winners (nature.com)). In our foresight we developed a view of global science for global good during the exercise that supported the 3rd Strategic Plan of Horizon 2020 (Strategic foresight - Publications Office of the EU (europa.eu)). In that work we linked explicitly global challenges with an opportunity for peace and the evolution of a global conscience. The title in the report was "Facing climate change, oceans and space as pacifying / unifying projects". It continued.... "The climate, the oceans and space are global commons which can give rise to pacifying / unifying projects for humanity as a whole. Many of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals require global governance related to the environment, resource use and climate change. The IPPC, a global scientific effort to help global governance, illustrates how research on climate change can help decisions dealing with global commons and can inspire other areas such oceans and space. Space exploration could constitute in itself a 'great challenge for humankind' for which nations could collaborate. ..... " Since this work was published in 2016 there are more signs of a global conscience emerging around the vision of global science. Let's see if we can build it up.1010
- The Anthropocene: emergent or designed?In Climate & Geoengineering·May 24, 2022There is a rising conscience of the effects of humans on the planetary system. A new book Altered Earth: Getting the Anthropocene Right by Julia Adeney Thomas, Ed. Cambridge University Press, 2022, contains 12 essays by 19 scholars, that seek to set out the scientific evidence and the “human terms”’ that define the Anthropocene. Between Harari's Homo Deus and Thierry Gaudin's "planetary gardening" (see The world in 2025: A challenge to reason (fiuc.org) the search for appropriate planetary governance is on. In a review of Altered Earth in the journal Science, E C.Ellis and M Maslin (https://www.science.org/doi/ full/10.1126/science.abq1474) comment: "Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this book is what is left out.... Where is the essay on defining the Anthropocene in relation to the wealthiest people on Earth—those most responsible for climate change? Where are the billion black Anthropocenes (A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None — University of Minnesota Press (umn.edu)) and the communities who suffered as a result of European colonialism? What of the Indigenous peoples who have sustained Earth’s biodiversity for millennia? In Altered Earth, this fertile and important ground for discussion is left to others.103
- Metabolism Tracking, Smart Health Devices for the positive purpose of understanding and maintaining a healthy body weight.In The Future of Health·February 2, 2022E-Health solutions including telemedicine, measure and monitoring health data combining smart devices, wearables, virtual trainers, automation, digital helpers, monitoring and tracking data related to our daily health... and much more belong to the Top 19 EU Targeted Scenarios to invest and work in the following 20 years: "Assisted Living". Below are the Top Smart Devices that track our metabolism to understand our own metabolism, so we can leverage this information to improve athletic performance and weight loss or maintenance.107
- An anti-kleptocracy movement...In Criminal & Lawful Activities ·May 27, 2022gains from the drive to sanction Russian oligarchs... see Power and plunder: Putin’s gift to the counter-kleptocracy movement – POLITICO106
- On the disputed origins of COVID 19In The Future of Health·May 30, 2022Did US Biotechnology Help to Create COVID-19? by Neil L. Harrison & Jeffrey D. Sachs - Project Syndicate (project-syndicate.org)103
- The next evolution of digital money? It’s happening nowIn New Money·April 4, 2022"In October 2020, the Bahamas released a new kind of digital currency: “sand dollars.” These digital tokens are issued by the country’s central bank and are legal tender, with the same legal status as their old-fashioned money — paper notes and coins. The sand dollar is cash; it just doesn’t have a physical form. Residents of the Bahamas can now download an e-wallet onto their phones, load it with sand dollars, and spend away with a simple tap." Source: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2022/next-evolution-digital-money-happening-now #NewMoney #DigitalCurrency102
- Key development for the future of IPRIn The Future of IPR·February 14, 2022NATURE PODCAST: 11 February 2022 Coronapod: How African scientists are copying Moderna's COVID vaccine (nature.com)106
- At doom’s doorstep: It is 100 seconds to midnightIn Sandbox·February 16, 2022https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/1010
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