Global Warming is unpopular because it says that humans at 6.9 billion and counting are responsible for global weather processes. Global Warming occurs primarily due to the release of CO2 and other gases into the upper atmosphere to levels that gradually raise the temperature around the world and lead to more radical and disruptive...
Here is an idea that is being adopted around the World, but would never take root currently in America because of divisive partisanship – Pay to Get Rid of Poverty. The city of Rio de Janeiro is infamous for the fact that one can look out from a precarious shack on a hill in...
For the past 2-3 months, ye Takethe5th editor had hoped to apply a new theme to Takethe5th which would allow for more of a magazine style story format. Unfortunately, the way browsers display the theme is quite mixed as a recent tour of different browsers and screen sizings revealed. Sometimes the stories were 2...
The Winter Olympic Closing Ceremonies were such an example of new “I believe” bravado rippling across the Canadian landscape and yet a wonderful opportunity missed. Sorry, USA and the rest of the world – humble, self-effacing, meek and reliable Canadians will for the time being become more like uhhh … ugly American Wall Street...
If you are like me, just pining for an eReader that is robust, light, strong, with huge storage, great + economical Wifi connections, and is not linked to Amazon only for books and other media resources – then thank CES 2010 for just hosting a pan full of promising eReader nuggets. In fact, the...
What makes this story/slideshow about Ford’s new Electric vehicles so fascinating is where it appeared. No, not in Car and Driver or Popular Mechanics. No not Forbes or Business Week – but in eWeek, a leading Corporate IT trade press source. Figure that one out as you get a great look see at what...
Google has been putting together some fine tools for manipulating and displaying stock results. Taketh5th readers were alerted to the quality of the Google Finance Stock display and associated stock data at the beggining of this year. Now Google Finance has added a Stock Screener that is the cats meow. The only limitation is...
The references to algae as a climate changer is beginning to do the media’s exponential growth – and flourish like a dank warm pond covered with … uhh, algae. First, the July 25-31st issue of the New Scientists has a story about Geneticist Craig Venter and research he is doing with a bunch of...
Both fascinating and frustrating reading. The story of Joseph Needham collecting together the history and legacy of China's technological triumph's is utterly fascinating. But frustrating is the failure of Winchester to shed clear light on why a)China did not already have such a hitorical trove in Beijing and b) why did China miss out on the Industrial Revolution while Japan, even more reclusive, did not.
