Attending #ChefConf!

Welcome to the American Spring

Via Scoop.itDemand Transformation

This week, the American Spring began. It was a celebration of what’s best in America — civic community and self-expression. But last night I also saw the worst of America.
Via www.huffingtonpost.com

China’s budget backs science : Nature News & Comment

Via Scoop.itDemand Transformation

This year, central-government expenditure on science and technology is set to rise to 228.5 billion renminbi (US$36.1 billion), a 12.4% increase on last year’s spending, which slightly trails the country’s overall projected budget increase of 13.7%.

 

Of that science budget, 32.5 billion renminbi will go towards basic research, a 10.1% increase on the 29.5 billion renminbi spent in 2011.

 

Wen also stressed the government’s continuing commitment to improving agriculture, promising an additional 10.1 billion renminbi — a 53% rise on last year — for developing new agricultural technologies and modernizing China’s seed industry.

Via www.nature.com

Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don’t get it #OWS

Via Scoop.itDemand Transformation

Douglas Rushkoff: Media derides the Wall Street protest at its peril. The net-driven movement is a preview of a new sustainable disussion on disconnect in U.S.

Via edition.cnn.com

Pot Legalization Foe Getting Rich off the Drug War

Via Scoop.itDemand Transformation

Lobbyist who fought California’s Prop. 19 cashes in helping cop shops milk the feds for drug-enforcement money.
Via motherjones.com