Logic Buildup To An EBO
Via NYkrinDC – Victor Comrast at CTBlog – provides the logic for build up to an EBO in reaction to Iran:
[W]e cannot rely solely on sanctions that narrowly target a few Iranian banks, individuals or entities. We must target wider sectors, including Iran’s leaders, Iran’s energy sector, and Iran’s growing commercial class. Barring a credible threat of such broader sanctions, the current measures simply won’t deliver the effect we seek.
Heh
Over the Hedge has been doing a run on bee colony collapse.
On Disappearing Networks
Via Smart Mobs – RU Newswire –
Using an electron microscope, they discovered that the developing worm’s neural network, which had not previously been mapped, was completely different from that of the mature animal. “A large number of embryonic neurons are heavily interconnected by gap junctions,” says Bargmann, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. “They all grow to the midline, communicate with each other and create a conduit of information that links together these two different sides of the brain.” Then, after the gap junctions do their job, they disappear. “This network is transient; we only know about it because we were able to look at this early period.”
On Information Plantains
In the end, though, the internet seems to be following the same pattern that has always characterised popular media. A few huge outlets come to dominate readership and viewership and smaller, more specialised ones are consigned to the periphery. Most of the largest sites are now in the midst of acquisition sprees or expansion programs intended to extend their dominion.
The key difference is that classic media constrained users to a few key networks. New media’s hubs are chosen.
The Digital Dump
Foreign Policy photo essay:
Technology drives the forces of globalization. But when we replace our computers and flat-screens with the newest in high-tech cool, what happens to the hardware we throw away? Welcome to the digital dumping ground, where the poor make a living off other people’s spare parts.