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To require research to result in "demonstrable benefits to the economy, society, public policy, culture and quality of life" is, even if it were achievable, impossibly constraining. Blue skies thinking, which may be transformative, is endangered. - Andrew Ford Lyons

YEARS AGO I WAS interviewed by a dogmatic pacifist (note to self: bad idea), who in his (grossly inaccurate) write-up said he thought I wanted all activists to think like assassins. That’s not true. What I want is for us to think like members of a serious resistance movement. - Andrew Ford Lyons

The United Nations University’s Traditional Knowledge Initiative has produced a compendium with a wide-ranging overview of more than 400 projects. Advance Guard: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, Mitigation and Indigenous Peoples contains over 400 case studies and research activities specifically related to climate change and indigenous peoples. It provides a sketch of the climate and environmental changes, local observations and impacts being felt by communities in different regions, and outlines various adaptation and mitigation strategies that are currently being implemented. - Andrew Ford Lyons

Early human societies had primitive and inefficient ways of collecting resources, so those that thrived were ones that developed high rates of consumption and new innovations for resource gathering. They also had built up strong identity with their own community and competitiveness with others, and short-term thinking (discounting the future). - Andrew Ford Lyons

AS WORLD leaders arrive in Copenhagen for the crunch phase of the climate conference, the focus turns to what kind of deal is likely to emerge. Pre-eminent climate scientist Prof James Hansen of the Nasa Goddard Institute has already given the entire process the kiss of death. Any political deal cobbled together is, he believes, likely to be so profoundly flawed as to lock humanity on to “a disaster track”, writes JOHN GIBBONS - Andrew Ford Lyons

Since 1965, the percentage of graduates of highly-ranked business schools who go into consulting and financial services has doubled, from about one-third to about two-thirds. And while some of these consultants and financiers end up in the manufacturing sector, in some respects that’s the problem. - Andrew Ford Lyons

Israel has admitted that pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians, and others without the consent of their families – a practice that it said ended in the 1990s, it emerged at the weekend. - Andrew Ford Lyons

15 years ago, the web didn’t look the way that it does now. The web was dull, unattractive and less visually appealing. Interacting with web pages was not possible, and the web was simply a static information space. - Andrew Ford Lyons

Reading Davies, one longs for a return to the golden era of an incorruptible and conscientious media. But did such an era ever exist? Strangely, Davies devotes almost no space in his book to examining the history of journalism or to testing his implied hypothesis that journalists were once successful at truth-telling. - Andrew Ford Lyons

This is where I'll do my expat xmas shopping come next year. Amazon is just a bit generic. - Andrew Ford Lyons

The Hebron Fund is raising vast sums for Israeli settlements that violate the Geneva convention, with little scrutiny - Andrew Ford Lyons

This editorial calling for action from world leaders on climate change is published today by 56 newspapers around the world in 20 languages. - Andrew Ford Lyons

I think he just likes to back a winner regrdless of ideology. - Andrew Ford Lyons

Despite a complete lack of evidence, the leaked emails hysteria has encouraged more deniers to emerge from the shadows - Andrew Ford Lyons

n February 1988, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin discreetly told the Israeli army to break the bones of Palestinians rising up during the first Palestinian intifada. According to the testimony of Israeli soldiers, Colonel Eitam relayed the message to his Givati Brigade, then occupying Gaza. On 7 February, he ordered four of them to break the bones of two brothers from al-Bureij refugee camp. - Andrew Ford Lyons

The Task Force to Save the Nation and the Land, the organization that offered every soldier refusing to evacuate a settlement, and the Kfir Brigade soldiers who publicly demonstrated their opposition to evacuation, NIS 1,000 for every day they spend in military prison, is a registered non-profit organization and has a license to operate. - Andrew Ford Lyons

Rick Warren should be prosecuted in the United States for his human rights violations abroad as outlined in Federal law. He could also be brought to the Hague if this law is enacted. It would be for the better of the world if he were taken out of circulation and put behind bars as while he isn't taken seriously in the US by many, he apparently has some pull abroad. - Andrew Ford Lyons

Oregon actually still thinks it can copyright its laws. Feh. - Andrew Ford Lyons

Mr Davis is adamant that he is not a "denier" of climate change and accepts that it has "probably" been caused by human activity. But he is worried about the economic cost of meeting emissions targets. He wants other voices to be heard in the debate and a "middle way" found instead of the name-calling between "deniers and liars" on each side. - Andrew Ford Lyons

I do not know why people need to drum up fake stories about Islam in order tp spread fear about it, and singling it out is sort of weird. Now if you want to look at the dangers of theorcratic regimes in general, you could be on to something. - Andrew Ford Lyons

Another great list by Web Design Ledger with some tools I need to check out. - Andrew Ford Lyons

Fantastic list. - Andrew Ford Lyons

Since the reported theft of emails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, conservative media figures have aggressively claimed that those emails undermine the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activities are causing climate change, dubbing the supposed scandal "Climategate." But these critics have largely rested their claims on outlandish distortions and misrepresentations of the contents of the stolen emails, greatly undermining their dubious smears. - Andrew Ford Lyons

We can now feed the world. - Andrew Ford Lyons

About 45 minutes ago, the Wave was opened with just a few people in it. Already, there are over 100 people in here now communicating quickly with updates. Included are Wave elements with links to police scanner audio, live video footage of the search, a suspect description, and information about local schools on lockdown. It’s actually quite amazing to watch this unfold and get updated before your very eyes. - Andrew Ford Lyons

How much social benefit is the state that hosts Microsoft losing as a result of it doing its taxes like it does its programing? - Andrew Ford Lyons

"Ministers fear the inquiry into the Iraq war will create a new public backlash that will harm the Labour Party's prospects at the general election. " A miliion + killed and this is what Labour worries about? - Andrew Ford Lyons

dpwatchdog.com is a rightwing group that aims to tie any criticism of Israel or support of Palestinians to anti-semitism. - Andrew Ford Lyons

Another case showing how the Olympics has become an industry causing more harm than good, it increases paranoia and hampers free speech. - Andrew Ford Lyons

What conservatives think, if you could call it thinking. - Andrew Ford Lyons