World Voting, located at http://www.WorldVoting.net, is the world’s first attempt at spreading the democratic process outside of traditional national boundaries. WorldVoting.net allows anyone with an Internet connection and an opinion to participate in a poll for any heads of state (or heads of go...

No matter what standard one might use to measure the extent of the current financial crisis, all the results confirm what the average consumer has known for a long time -- we are in hard times and they are getting more difficult. An article in The Economist insists that "the integration of the ...

Communication. Community. Commerce. These words share ancient Latin linguistic roots, and they all indicate some sort of coming together. War has been described variously as a breakdown of one or all of them.  The mainstream media typically portray the Middle East as a desert of war, but scattered ...

As much as the internet has fueled innovation through the free exchange of ideas and collaboration with anyone across the globe, are we also remaking a market economy that only benefits those on top who control the mass lines of distribution? Wired considers the pitfalls of crowdsourcing - a phenome...

...Old Habits Die Hard From RGE Global Monitor: Global Stocks: 2008 a Year of Historic Losses. 2009 More of the Same? Of the 83 stock markets around the world, just 10 are up year to date as of March 2, 2009, with China leading the way at 14.97%. Venezuela, Colombia, Abu Dhabi, and Israel have also ...

For example: … It’s hard to imagine just how much corn is required to make a usable amount of ethanol. Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute has a great quote that sums it up: “The grain required to fill a 25-gallon SUV gas tank with ethanol will feed one person for a year.â€� A year ...

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Snydeq writes "For the past several months, Microsoft has engaged in an far-reaching public mea culpa about Vista, holding a series of press interviews to explain how the company's Vista mistakes changed the evolvement process of Windows 7. Chief among these changes was the purposefulness to 'define...

The ways our food is produced, packaged and shipped stand at the center of an ongoing debate about the health of our planet and ourselves, but the key to creating a sustainable system may rely on our collective ability to accept a realistic solution as a opposed to a perfect one. And this involves a...

An interactive map published by the NY Times allows you to find the immigrants, all the way back to 1880, just before my own ancestors came over from various parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The data is broken down into ten-year intervals and various countries and regions. Now that the presiden...