A panel discussion on the Non-Communicable Disease Crisis with Dr Jimmie Rodgers, the Director-General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Ian Anderson from Ian Anderson Economics, and Dr Temo Waqanivalu from the World Health Organisation’s representative office in the South Pacific.
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The academic world took notice in 2011 when a Stanford University professor offered an online course on artificial intelligence for free, and more than 160,000 students from around the world registered for it. Stanford’s success prompted other major universities such as Harvard and MIT to follow suit and that brought increased attention and funding to organizations developing free Internet-based education programs. VOA’s Brian Padden has more from Palo Alto, California.
We live inside Earth’s “global electric circuit,” sharing our atmosphere with sprites, elves, blue jets, and other electric phenomena. Scientists have been studying our planet’s electrical environment for a century or so, from the charged particles at the top of the atmosphere, to electrical storms in clouds, to lightning that sometimes reaches the ground. But we haven’t had a way to study all of it, as a system, until now.
The Global Electric Circuit project is building a virtual representation of Earth’s electric environment in one computer model. The model will allow scientists throughout the world to experiment with the system and advance our knowledge about the electricity in our atmosphere—a central component of the world we live in.
Welcome to Transition Studies. To prosper for very much longer on the changing Earth humankind will need to move beyond its current fossil-fueled civilization toward one that is sustained on recycled materials and renewable energy. This is not a trivial shift. It will require a major transition in all aspects of our lives.
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