Visigraf.com We see what you mean.

The recent trend in politics to "take the hard line" and to demonize social programs as evil is both heartless and stupid, as it weakens our society just when we want to rebuild our way out of this depression. Meg Whitman bases her gubernatorial campaign in California on tearing down the few social programs left, further destroying educational funding, cutting foster care, and slashing the state budget.

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Just back from the brink of extinction, a pair of Peregrine Falcons raised 4 eyases (baby falcons) on a ledge high above Mission Street downtown in San Francisco this spring. The first flight for a baby falcon, the first fledge, is fraught with danger, particularly in an urban environment.

Sunday, May 23, 2010
Tragedy of the Commons and the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon disaster

by Bruce Bagnoli

The surviving crew member's account May 16,2010 on CBS 60 minutes of the pre-accident problems with the blowout preventer that failed when the Deepwater Horizon sank had chilling familiarity. [ see the report here: Michael Williams tells his story of survival to Scott Pelley. ]

Here is a link to my images from the 2009 Planetary Dance, Marin, California:

http://brucebagnoli.home.comcast.net/~brucebagnoli/Events/PlanetaryDance...

A gathering with music, food,dance, spoken word, and more. A healing tree, a meadow and drums, sunlight and brown grass, blue sky, children and folks of 89 and 93, 4 generations. Repeated in many locations, a community moving together.

http://blogs.parc.com/blog/2009/07/augmented-reality-increasing-collecti...

Augmented Reality: Increasing collective intelligence
Posted 23 July 2009 | Lawrence Lee

In my recent blog post

We like to keep a list of items that I want to read, analyze, or evaluate, perhaps study, or discard. An intellectual pantry.

If you have comments: Bruce.Bagnoli@gmail.com

A search that results in several things that I'd like to read:

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Clostridium ljungdahlii represents a microbial production platform based on syngas

Here is a link to the Visigraf photo gallery

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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0867193573/schildnet0c

Dreams of Tamalpais

On GoogleBooks

Extensive Methane Venting to the Atmosphere from Sediments of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf
Natalia Shakhova, Igor Semiletov, Anatoly Salyuk, Vladimir Yusupov, Denis Kosmach, and Örjan Gustafsson
Science 5 March 2010: 1246-1250.
Methane emissions from this region of sub-sea permafrost are comparable to previous estimates for the world ocean. Abstract »| Full Text »| PDF »| Supporting Online Material »| Podcast Interview »|