Singularity University is a departure from traditional education that will host its first class of 30 graduate students this summer. The nine a nine week course it offers will explore ways in which technology can improve the life and welfare of humankind, rather than harm it. Plans for Singularity will be announced today in Long …
Archives for 2009
Anti-Goverment Protests in Russia Over Economic Strife
Anti-government demonstrations took place in Moscow and throughout Russia on January 30, 2009, by demonstrators who expressed their frustration the country slips deeper into depression. A drop in oil prices, global economic downturn, government spending of billions to bail out failing banks and companies, rising unemployment and a rapidly devaluing ruble were all part of …
Iceland’s Government Collpases Amid Financial Turmoil
Iceland's Prime Minister, Geir Haarde, resigned on Monday, January 26, 2009 in lieu of the failing banking system and financial collapse of the country. During heavy protests demonstrators had burned an effigy of the Prime Minister on January 21. The Social Democratic Alliance party was formed to fill the void and the new coalition Jóhanna …
Attacks on USA on September 11, 2001
The attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001 took down both towers of the World Trade Center in New York, and destroyed part of the Pentagon Building in Washington, DC. This is an advent of the 432-year Emotional Cycle that periodically reaches a critical period of transition and crises. The Cycles comes into …
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act
The first act signed into law by President Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act which he did with Lilly Ledbetter by his side. Lilly Ledbetter had worked at a company for 19 years not knowing that her male counterparts were being paid more for doing the same job. In comparison, she lost …