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• Update: End Of Rockefeller Foundation’s ‘100 Resilient Cities’ Perplexes Recipients

  12-04-2019 17:20 via technocracy.news
  Cities left in the lurch are wondering what happened to the 100RC initiative. Resilience is prescribed in Sustainable Development Goal #11: “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.”  ⁃ TN EditorIn Accra, Ghana, some 70 percent of commuters get around by trotro—privately operated minibuses that charge just a couple of quarters per trip. But trotros are also a bane. Drivers are notorious rule-breakers, jamming i
  
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• ‘The Walking Dead’ Creator Turns To Dystopian Nightmare Of ‘The Feed’

  12-04-2019 16:50 via technocracy.news
  While science fiction is typically futuristic, The Feed is based on currently developing technology designed to use brain implanted chips to interface with the Internet. Some are already comparing The Feed to Nineteen Eighty Four and Brave New World. ⁃ TN EditorChanning Powell, the creator of the hit horror television series “The Walking Dead”, is not someone who is easily spooked.
  But Powell is scared, “terrified actually” of what big tech might be up to.
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• Health Risk: Citizens Push Back On 5G Towers In Moraga, Calif

  12-04-2019 16:20 via technocracy.news
  Cities potentially have significant clout to change the 5G landscape, but are typically too timid to do so. Most lay off decisions to Federal and State regulations. Meanwhile, 5G companies have become schoolyard bullies by threatening endless lawsuits. ⁃ TN EditorAn East Bay neighborhood’s fight against 5G is the topic of a town council meeting scheduled for Wednesday night. Moraga residents are expected to turn out and demand the city do more to protect people from cell phone radiat
  
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• Abbott questions climate change science

  12-04-2019 06:10
  
  A month after dropping his push for Australia to leave the Paris climate agreement, Tony Abbott has questioned the credibility of some climate change science.
  
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• STEM Ambassador provides catalyst for local science community

  12-04-2019 02:24
  Designed to foster collaboration and connections between Australian STEM professionals and Federal Parliamentarians, the STEM Ambassador program has already catalysed some meaningful action. For example, the science and technology community in Melbourne’s electorate of Wills are mobilising to help inform policymaking in Canberra. Candice Raeburn is the STEM Ambassador in Wills, and she has been […]
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