Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-11-02
Posted by macengr on November 2, 2012
I may have to do this more than once a week…
10h I read Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi http://bit.ly/SjiA08
13h Actually, this scares me: Health Care of the Future http://bit.ly/TWZsV3
17h Biomedicine Update: Are We About to Slay Viruses Forever? Mark 2022 on Your Calendar http://bit.ly/RuH2hx
17h Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and the US Trafficking in Persons Laws http://bit.ly/PJKXZs
20h The War on Terror Opens A New Front http://bit.ly/U0K67U
20h Self-Healing Concrete and Other 21st-Century Miracles http://bit.ly/Sf6vJi
20h Resource Rapture: China’s play for African gold, at what cost?http://bit.ly/Sf6tBb
20h Egyptian security official dismisses reports of foiled terror plot in Sinaihttp://bit.ly/VcCyPm
21hNukes of Hazard @nukes_of_hazard Latest IAEA report on #Iran released on August 30. Ehud Barak now touting its conclusions. Better late than never http://ow.ly/eWsms
20hSarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff The Communist Manifesto, illustrated, http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/11/01/fernando-vicente-communist-manifesto/ … via @brainpicker
21h Rachel Armstrong @livingarchitect Astronauts take spacewalk to find ammonia leak (Update)http://phys.org/news/2012-11-astronauts-spacewalk-ammonia-leak.html … via @physorg_com
21h Rachel Armstrong @livingarchitect New discovery shows promise in future speed of synthesizing high-demand nanomaterials http://phys.org/news/2012-11-discovery-future-high-demand-nanomaterials.html … via@physorg_com
21h Bloomberg Businessweek shows another reason its subscribership is declining: http://bzfd.it/SzKrN9
21hLaura Walker @LauraWalkerKC
What really happened in Benghazi? - http://CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/01/opinion/bennett-benghazi-obama/index.html … Blistering and pointed #Benghazi#7HoursofHell
21h What Could the Future of Work Look Like? http://bit.ly/VFJGiQ
22h Ai Weiwei: The Internet vs. The Chinese Government | The Way of Ai Weiwei | Big Think http://bit.ly/RufTeB
22h Good question: Does Culture Trump Strategy? http://bit.ly/TVYLLH
22h G-Class Outliers: Musings on Intelligent Life http://bit.ly/SeVUhh
22h Unraveling Animal Speech http://bit.ly/VFDQOE
22h Palestinians Caught Up in Syrian Conflict http://bit.ly/QWw7Mh
31 Oct @VenessaMiemis Group Deck of Cards: Coversations that matter:http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2012/10/30/conversations-that-matter/ …
31 Oct A Sign of Things To Come: Israeli Police Network Hackedhttp://bit.ly/ScFEh6
31 Oct George W. Bush signed off on 50 drone strikes, Obama has approved more than 350: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7a4114be-19ce-11e2-a379-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2Al61vAXy …#pleasereturnpeaceprize
31 Oct Game theory and war: Regional Variation in the Explanatory Power of War and Reason http://bit.ly/VDtpLu
31 Oct Video reportedly shows key suspect from Benghazi attackhttp://bit.ly/TudCkm
31 Oct Tom Barnett endorses Romney http://bit.ly/Uh1fEV
31 Oct Swansong Earth: Refuges for Life http://bit.ly/RsyZC5
31 Oct The Long Third War – By Micah Zenko http://bit.ly/Sv5eBd
31 Oct EPIC FAIL: UN Peacekeeping in Africa http://bit.ly/T5lkiw
31 Oct The Benghazi Debacle http://bit.ly/Scb3QH
31 Oct What Jesus Might Say About Sandy http://bit.ly/T5l5UH
31 Oct I read What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Is… by Bernard Lewishttp://bit.ly/Q62NWF
30 Oct The passion of Jonah Lehrer, and a people addicted to Insightshttp://bit.ly/RuhTSy via @ericgarland
30 Oct The long-term threat of debt http://bit.ly/SspovM
30 Oct Surprise – the man who ‘jumped from space’ doesn’t like space exploration http://bit.ly/XTEGuV
30 OctLeah Farrall @allthingsct RT @zenpundit: “On behalf of Charles Cameron…..” http://zenpundit.com/?p=16400
30 Oct Fascinating. Many links from this story: Bank of England’s Haldane: Occupy was right http://bit.ly/SsjVVD
30 Oct futurist-foresight: Trends: Looking at the tech trends of the future…http://bit.ly/VBtLSA
30 Oct Plot to attack tourist sites in Sinai reportedly thwarted http://bit.ly/SalmVb
30 Oct Satellite pictures suggest Sudanese weapons factory hit by air strikehttp://bit.ly/Ssg0Z5
30 Oct These Unbelievable Pictures of Sandy’s Destruction Are Actually Realhttp://bit.ly/VBhs93
30 Oct Asteroid Deflection: The Paintball Solution http://bit.ly/SbnqfU
30 Oct Technology and War – Part 3: War’s Impact on Transportation Technology http://bit.ly/TTj16C
30 Oct Afghan policeman kills two British soldiers in Helmand http://bit.ly/TRSSPH
29 OctJ. Scott Shipman @jscottshipman Mark Helprin: America’s Capsizing Naval Policy - http://WSJ.com http://j.mp/TPZH4a
30 Oct US AFRICOM @USAfricaCommand #Dempsey hits rumors about #Africom chief’s departure http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/29/dempsey-hits-rumors-about-africom-chiefs-departure/ …
29 Oct Voice of the Martyrs @VOM_USA Several Christians have been arrested in a mostly-Muslim nation. For security reasons, we can’t say more. Please #pray for them.
30 Oct Six storms that changed the course of history: Winds of Change – By Ty McCormick http://bit.ly/VBaAZ8
30 Oct Iran dispatches warships to Sudan after Israeli airstrike on missile base http://bit.ly/VBae4P
30 Oct Superstorm Sandy Seen In a Beautiful Map of Pure Windhttp://bit.ly/PEIqQc
30 Oct Curiosity Sits on Rocks Similar to Ones in Mexico http://bit.ly/fYkQSh
30 Oct No One Knows When New York’s Subway Will Reopen http://bit.ly/TT8R67
30 Oct Why You Should Text, Not Call to Check on Loved Ones Post-Sandyhttp://bit.ly/TT8uZg
30 Oct International Jihadis Descend on Mali http://bit.ly/RtFmDm
30 OctNoah Raford @nraford And it begins RT @nils_gilman: Bioweaponry meets the drone imaginary (“targeted killing” vs. WMD): http://bit.ly/SZTaW5 #biogreygoo
30 OctSmall Wars Journal @smallwars Russian COIN in Chechnya – Winning the Battle, Losing the War, 1994-1996 http://bit.ly/SXch3c
30 Oct On The Relevance Of Celtic Christianity To Today http://wp.me/p1xhs-6q
30 Oct I read Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife by John A. Naglhttp://bit.ly/SaUODC
29 Oct Open Foresight: A New Model for Public Futurism http://bit.ly/VzOd6A
29 Oct Boyd: A3, Einheit, and the conceptual spiral http://bit.ly/RjS9Xf
29 Oct Nanotubes Rescue IT Revolution http://bit.ly/PDmmpn
29 Oct Military strategy is like Battleship Game Theory – By John Arquillahttp://bit.ly/TR36Wr
29 Oct The Arctic is the Mediterranean of the 21st century: Open Seas – By James Holmes http://bit.ly/WWnZ3h
29 Oct Lessons Learned from Red Bull Stratoshttp://www.itstactical.com/centcom/news/ ing-the-envelope-lessons-learned-from-red-bull-stratos/ …
29 Oct Detecting Fake Hurricane Photographs http://bit.ly/VzKd5O
29 Oct The Benghazi mess and its consequences http://bit.ly/WWmBgS
29 Oct Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From? And How Can We Stop It? http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-08/out-wild …
29 Oct Will Future Mobility Lead to Future Instability? http://bit.ly/SVer3j
29 Oct America’s Foreign Legion http://bit.ly/Spv6hW
29 Oct Was an ExxonMobil Executive Assassinated in Brussels? http://bit.ly/S9xXZf
29 Oct Trying to Start Religious War in Nigeria http://bit.ly/VzIP3e
29 Oct A Tour of the Cell http://bit.ly/TqXekw
29 Oct The failure of light-footprint intervention to provide long-term stabilityhttp://bit.ly/QQJ3TV
29 Oct Hello, Pittsburgh? Does Your City Need a Transit Riders Union?http://bit.ly/SplYKi
29 Oct Hurricane Sandy Is a Category 1 Cyclone, But It Has the Eyewall Of a Category 3 http://bit.ly/RjzOcQ
29 Oct Fellow Christians: fastest way to alienate unbelievers – say this storm is God punishing us. #seriously? #eyeroll
29 Oct Benghazi Attack Timeline: http://wecheck.org/wiki/Benghazi_Attack_Timeline …
29 Oct Reading about Environmental Security is apropos as Hurricane Sandy approaches. Specifically, the work of Jon Barnett of U of Melbourne
29 Oct Small Wars Journal @smallwars Rebalancing the US military for 21st Century Threats: An Interview with Janine Davidson http://bit.ly/Tixx18
29 Oct Nukes of Hazard @nukes_of_hazard As Hurricane Sandy bears down, re-upping @Nickolas_Roth on why nuclear weapons arent a good way to prevent major stormshttp://ow.ly/eQCqH
29 Oct Photo: Hurricane Sandy vs Hurricane Irene: Sandy is MUCH bigger:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203880704578084502987456668.html?mod=e2tw#project%3DSLIDER_1027SANDY%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive …
28 Oct Tanja Hichert @TanjaHichert RT @iftf: The World’s First Commercial Vertical Farm Opens in Singapore - http://inhabitat.com/the-worlds-first-commercial-vertical-farm-opens-in-singapore/ … #FoodFutures
29 Oct @faineg Saw this article this weekend:http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/myanmar-how-quickly-things-can-change-9065/ …
28 Oct Wall Street Journal @WSJ Hurricane #Sandy is wider, stronger than Irene. A side-by-side comparison: http://on.wsj.com/SQ8WTo
29 Oct Richard Florida @Richard_Florida The 66% – America’s Growing UnderClass – My latest in@AtlanticCities - http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/10/66-americas-growing-underclass/3618/ …
29 Oct Adam Elkus @Aelkus Anatol Lieven on Afghan war after 2014 http://americanreviewmag.com/opinions/The-Afghan-gamble …
29 Oct Crispin J. Burke @CrispinBurke The Iliad and the Long War http://vsb.li/7B99gE
29 Oct Jodi Beggs @jodiecongirl #hurricaneentertainment RT @WSJ: All of WSJ is free for everyone to read and share today: http://WSJ.com
29 Oct Provocative: Why the UK doesn’t want to prosecute financial crimeshttp://bit.ly/RrGVls
29 Oct Pentagon annual Rept on China Military – hopefully more accurate than Soviet military reports were: http://www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/2012_CMPR_Final.pdf …
29 Oct Ediplomacy: The revolution continues http://bit.ly/S83xXk
29 Oct Founder of African Institute for Technology: TEDxChange TEDxAMS – Ndubuisi Ekekwe http://bit.ly/S83smi
29 Oct Prayers out for all in its path: Hurricane Sandy’s Track: 10 Million People Could Lose Power http://bit.ly/PC8Vpr
29 Oct What Tumblr can tell us about the future of media — Tech News and Analysis http://bit.ly/S83avR
29 Oct attackerman @attackerman Only “30 to 50 percent” of Predator & Reaper drone data feeds are encrypted, 4 years after Radio-Shack Iraq hack. By @dangerroom &@daxe.
29 Oct New estimates: Sub Saharan African countries lost $814bn in capital flight http://bit.ly/STBHib
29 Oct Google Activates Hurricane Sandy Tracking Map http://bit.ly/S6JDN0
29 Oct Sony Playstation 3 Master Key Leaked http://bit.ly/RoNYgf
29 Oct Cool History of Congress partisan and ideological make-up infographic at XKCD: http://bit.ly/PfYmaj
29 Oct Schwab Foundation @schwabfound Apply by Nov 16 @acumenfund Global Fellows Programme ,world-class leadership training for social entrepreneurs http://wef.ch/l1Z9t
28 Oct Kelsey D Atherton @the_boy there’s a cartoon with a story arc about supporting an insurgency. Over at #BlogTarkin, @CrispinBurke dives into ithttp://blogtarkin.com/2012/10/28/charlie-kenobis-war/ …
28 Oct SpaceX @SpaceX Raw video of #Dragon‘s splashdown into the Pacifichttp://youtu.be/W_bF6ZciBxQ
28 Oct US Navy tests first drone…ship: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2224165/Now-drones-seas-U-S-Navy-launches-unmanned-combat-boats-firing-missiles-time.html …
27 Oct The World Is Not Enough: Google and the Future of Augmented Reality – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic http://bit.ly/Tn8Tkk
27 Oct Mechanical Pencil That Draws Carbon Nanotubes Developed By MIT Researchers http://bit.ly/VvM3VA
27 Oct CIA Found Terror Links A Day After Libya Attack http://bit.ly/RmBUvP
27 Oct Syrian War Threatens Regional Stability http://bit.ly/Tn8CxX
27 Oct Do Ceasefires Ever Work? – Page Fortna http://bit.ly/Pci1b9
27 Oct Italy Sinks Further Into Chaos http://bit.ly/RmiKqb
27 Oct Foreign jihadists continue to pour into Mali http://bit.ly/Rb8q0w