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Understanding demographics of American voters

November 13, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management

Evolution of the American voter: ‘The tectonic plates of politics are shifting’
Gary Younge in Albuquerque, guardian.co.uk

As US demographics change – becoming less white, less religious, more urban – the electoral rhetoric of Republicans and Democrats is failing to keep up. Gary Younge reports

Kasha Nelson, 31, was only supposed to go hiking with a friend. But in t…

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Scripps scientists discover ‘lubricant’ for Earth’s tectonic plates (esciencenews.com)
Congestion in the Earth’s mantle: Why plate tectonics stagnates in some places (phys.org)
Interactive: Predicting GOP’s demographic problem (news.yahoo.com)

Republican civil war

November 13, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management

Republican right weeps over Obama’s victory – then begins internal civil war
Paul Harris in Pella, guardian.co.uk

The clash between diehard conservatives and modernisers will dictate the fate of a party which increasingly seems to appeal only to angry, older white Americans

The town of Pella, Iowa, looks an almost too perfect vision of smalltown America.…

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Obama data geeks

November 13, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Obama’s data geeks add up to four more years
John Naughton, guardian.co.uk

Mastery of the numbers game meant the president’s team was able to exploit its database more effectively than Romney, reeling in £1bn in donations

Some years ago I went to a lecture given by Professor David MacKay, who in addition to being a…

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Property: Canary Wharf welcomes geeks bearing gifts (standard.co.uk)
The White House shows us how to recover from a geek gaffe (io9.com)
Obama Loses Geek Cred After “Jedi Mind Meld” Comment, White House Makes Up for It (geekosystem.com)
Bill Gates addresses cybersecurity threats, then gets hacked (geekwire.com)

The end of the ridiculous war on drugs

November 13, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

As US states legalise marijuana, is this the end of the drugs war?
Eugene Jarecki, guardian.co.uk

The director of a landmark documentary which chronicles how the current penal approach has resulted in social disaster says the greatest legacy of the US elections may be shifting attitudes towards illegal narcotics

Last week was a momentous wee…

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Eugene Jarecki and the campaign to end America’s war on drugs (guardian.co.uk)
Brad Pitt: America’s war on drugs is a charade, and a failure (guardian.co.uk)
Russell Simmons: the war on drugs made victims of the black community (guardian.co.uk)
The Vast Majority of People in US Prisons Shouldn’t Be There, Period, But They Are Profitable Chattel (lockupreform.wordpress.com)

Nokero Sunray solar charger saved my life

November 12, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy, Systems Science

How The Nokero SunRay Pro Power Solar Charger Saved My Skin & My Sanity During Hurricane Sandy
Jill Fehrenbacher, inhabitat.com

When Hurricane Sandy hit last week, and the power in my lower Manhattan apartment went out, my first thought, as I dug around for candles and LED lamps was “Well this will be a fun little off-grid adventure!” I naively harbored some…

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Is This Energy Source a Key to National Security? (dailyfinance.com)
The Solar Elevator Has Arrived (solarfeeds.com)
First Solar Buys 150 MW California Solar Power Plant (To Be Done 2014) (cleantechnica.com)
Is This Energy Source a Key to National Security? (fool.com)

Floating sheep: mapping racist tweets in election

November 12, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Design UX, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama’s Re-election
Matthew Zook, floatingsheep.org

Note: for questions about the methodology/approach of this post, see the FAQ (added 16:20 EST 11/9/2012).
Note: as of 11:00 EST 11/10/2012, we have disabled commenting on this post.

During the day after the 2012…

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Judge who sent racist email to retire (politico.com)

Why we need better voting systems

November 12, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

Shame on the Republicans Who Curtailed Early Voting
James Fallows, theatlantic.com

Hours-long election lines stretching many city blocks are a national embarrassment. And those responsible should be condemned across ideological lines.

In 32 states and Washington, D.C., voters are eligible to cast their ballot early with …

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From the Director of the Film That Made a Pilot Divert a Plane – James Fallows – The Atlantic (theatlantic.com)
Invading Iraq: What We Were Told at the Time – James Fallows – The Atlantic (theatlantic.com)
James Fallows doesn’t trust Google not to kill each new product it spawns (boingboing.net)

The decline of the Fox News brain trust

November 12, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management

‘There is some holy hell to pay’
Steve Benen, msnbc.com

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I’ve never fully understood how Karl Rove developed a reputation as a strategic genius.

In 2000, it was Rove’s idea to keep George W. Bush in California in the campaign’s waning days, instead of stumping in key…

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Karl Rove Responds To Sarah Palin’s CPAC Thrasing, Rips Her For Quitting As Governor (mediaite.com)
Karl Rove: ‘I Could’ Imagine Next GOP Presidential Nominee Supporting Gay Marriage (abcnews.go.com)
Karl Rove Mocks Sarah Palin Tenure As Governor (huffingtonpost.com)

Charles Darwin gets 4000 write-in votes against Rep. Paul Broun in Georgia election

November 12, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

upi.com

Remember Rep. Paul Broun, the Georgia Republican whose speech decrying evolution and the Big Bang Theory (the science, not the hit TV show) as lies “from the pit of hell”?

At least a few Georgia voters did: at least 4,000 of them wro…

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Charles Darwin gets 4000 write-in votes against Rep. Paul Broun in Georgia election

Senate Hopeful Admits Eating a Lion (abcnews.go.com)
Lion-Eating Senate Hopeful Has Taste for Controversy (news.yahoo.com)
Georgia congressman says Paul Ryan is just too damn liberal (dailykos.com)

Do natural disasters redistribute wealth?

November 10, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy, Systems Science

NYC Crime Rate Drops After Storm
thedailybeast.com

HURRICANE SANDY

Hurricane Sandy may have devastated areas of New York City, but there was one silver lining in the otherwise massively destructive storm cloud: the city’s overall crime rate dropped 27 percent compared with the sam…

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A History of Disaster Capitalism (motherjones.com)
How capitalism stacks the deck on disaster (grist.org)
Biggest summer storms in 50 years hit Chiang Rai, Thailand (disaster-report.com)
How Sandy Has Altered Data Center Disaster Planning (datacenterknowledge.com)

The new green barons

November 10, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Health Informatics, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Network Science, Systems Science

The New Pot Barons: Businessmen Bank on Marijuana
By Tony Dokoupil, thedailybeast.com

Pot use in the United States is rising sharply, and voters may make it fully legal in two states this fall. Smart businessmen are banking on that happening.

Full dark in downtown Denver, and inside one of the twinkling high-rises that make th…

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Power grid flaws exposed by Sandy hurricane

November 9, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy, Systems Science

Superstorm Shines A Light On Power Grid Vulnerabilities
Scott Neuman, npr.org

The storm that has spawned so many worst-ever superlatives managed a few more when it comes to electricity, with record-breaking power outages across 18 states stretching from Michigan and Indiana to Maine and North Carolina, according…

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Preparing The Grid For The Next Superstorm (forbes.com)
Better power grid synchronization may enable smart grids to self-recover from failures (phys.org)
National Grid to Lead LIPA ‘Blizzard’ Response (longislandpress.com)
Some of State’s Most Powerful Lobbies Oppose PSE&G’s $4 Billion Grid-Upgrade Plan (njspotlight.com)
Should You Add Backup Batteries to Your Grid-Tied Solar Array? (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
Off-Topic – Re: 750,000 Households in America have gone off-the-grid (disclose.tv)
NJ Frets Over Smart-Grid Technologies, While U.S., Other Countries Move Ahead (njspotlight.com)

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