Right now, all over the world, projects are underway to store seeds. Biodiversity has plummeted in the last 50 years, and scientists fear climate change will kill varieties of apples, yams and many fruits and vegetables. Dick talks with seed collectors.
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Saving Seeds | The Story
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Zoos Cruise w/ Avery Edison | Pre-Recorded | Funny interviews, improv and sketch comedy
A former (?) economic assassin details her exploits working for Her Majesty’s Totally Super Secret Service, trying to undermine other national economies. On the lighter side, the cruise director for the annual Zookeepers Convention talks to us about this year’s festivities. Featuring Avery Edison on Twitter @aedison, and Landon Kirksey on Twitter @itslandon.
http://www.pre-recorded.com/2013/03/zoos-cruise-w-avery-edison/
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Nicholas Carr On The Internet And Our Brains (Rebroadcast) | WFAE
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Paul Brodsky: Central Banks Are Nearing The ‘Inflate Or Die’ Stage | ZeroHedge
Submitted by Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity Paul Brodsky: Central Banks Are Nearing The ‘Inflate Or Die’ Stage"It’s impossible to have a political solution to a balance sheet problem" says Paul Brodsky, bond market expert and co-founder of QB Asset Management. The world has simply gotten itself into too much debt. There are creditors that expect to be paid, and debtors that are having an increasingly difficult time making their coupon payments. No amount of political or policy intervention is going to change that reality. (Unless a global "debt jubilee" transpires, which Paul thinks is unlikely). Looking at the global monetary base, Paul sees it dwarfed by the staggering amount of debts that need to be repaid or serviced. The reckless use of leverage has resulted in a chasm between total credit and the money that can service it. So how will this debt overhang be resolved? Central bank money printing — and lots of it — thinks Paul. At this point, the danger posed by the instability of our monetary and fiscal house of cards is so great that trying to time an investment program to when this avalanche of printing will occur is too risky, in Paul’s opinion. It’s time to shift your remaining capital into hard assets and sit on the sidelines to watch the carnage play out. On The Imbalance Between Debts and Money Supply We are seeing — not only in the US but in Europe and in Asia, as well — separating bank assets and base money. Base money is comprised of currency in circulation plus bank reserves that are held at central banks — at the Fed or that is at the ECB, the Bank of Japan, so on and so forth. This is how the global economy rolls, as they say. Bank assets are loans mostly. And the amounts globally are staggering: something approaching $100 trillion in global bank assets. And in the US we think that is somewhere around $20 trillion held in the US and abroad. And the numbers for the monetary base are much, much lower.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/paul-brodsky-central-banks-are-nearing-inflate-or-die-stage
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HRT - Razmišljanje dopušteno - Bankarske naknade
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The 404 906: Where Qwikster delivers the booty (podcast) | The 404 Podcast - CNET Blogs
Tune into The 404 Podcast today for the latest headlines, including Netflix splitting into two companies, PS3 users helping to find a cure for AIDS, a giant satellite plunging toward Earth, and a review of the interactive theater experience ‘Sleep No More!’ Read this blog post by Justin Yu on The 404 Podcast.
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13952_1-20108343-81/the-404-906-where-qwikster-delivers-the-booty-podcast/
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SitePoint Podcast #141: Pygg with Andy White » SitePoint
Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict) interviews Andy White (@arcwhite) from startup incubator Pollenizer on their social payment startup, Pygg
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Stresstest bij banken
"Vanavond worden de resultaten bekend gemaakt van de stresstest bij de 90 belangrijkste Europese banken. De test zorgt in elk geval voor stress en politiek gekrakeel. Want twee Spaanse banken hebben al bekend gemaakt dat ze gezakt zijn. En een Duitse bank wil niet meer mee doen en is boos. Financieel redacteur André Meinema legt uit waarop de banken werden getest."
Zie http://nos.nl/audio/256327-waarop-worden-de-banken-nou-getest.html
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Listen to News: World Bank wants to Refocus Aid
Listening practice for English learners with gap-fill exercise, comprehension quiz and discussion question based on this week’s news ~ World Bank wants to Refocus Aid
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Public Lectures and Events: The Haves and Have Nots
This event was recorded on 8 February 2011 in Old Theatre, Old Building.
Inequality is a surprisingly slippery issue, involving not just straightforward comparisons of individuals, but also comparisons of price and consumption differences around the world – and over time. In this lecture Branko Milanovic, the lead economist at the World Bank’s research division, will approach the issue in a new and innovative way, focusing on inequality in income and wealth in different time periods and contexts: from inequality in Roman times (and how it compared with inequality today), to depictions of wealth inequality in literature (Pride and Prejudice and Anna Karenina), to inequality across generations of a single family (the three generations of Obamas illustrating this theme). As for global inequality today, the talk will examine its main cause (differences in average incomes between countries), the role China and India might play, and, perhaps most importantly, whether global inequality matters at all, and if does, what can we do to reduce it. Branko Milanovic is one of the world’s leading experts on inequality. He is lead economist at the World Bank’s research division in Washington DC, a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and the author of The Haves and Have Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/publicLecturesAndEvents.htm
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