Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation The wars on drugs and terror have given police departments a lot of deadly toys and dangerous attitudes…Via www.salon.com
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Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationTheir target: The congressional supercommittee and the Bush tax cuts for the rich…Via www.salon.com
Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation If the big banks aren’t scared yet at the power of social-media grass-roots activism, they’re not paying attention… 650,000 consumers across the nation have joined credit unions in the past four weeks, that’s more than all of 2010 combined.Via www.salon.com
Via Scoop.it – Internet of the absurd Jon Stewart and co.extend one of the pundit’s controversial statements to its logical extreme VIDEO…Via www.salon.com
Via Scoop.it – Creating the Future China’s unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft successfully docked with the prototype space lab module Tiangong 1 Wednesday (Nov. 2). The orbital meet-up is a key step in China’s plan to build a space station in orbit by 2020. “We can never count on other countries to sell their mature technologies to us, so we…
Via Scoop.it – Creating the Future“We’ve shown there is a causal link between these senescent cells and age-related decline in tissue function,” The results were striking: in tissues that contained the labeled cells, including everything from fat to muscle to eyes, selective removal appeared to postpone age-related damage. Treated mice had no cataracts, and showed increased muscle mass, strength,…