While Seattle approaches its housing issue by building dormitories s for workers podments, — Last year Beijing made nearly 1,880 affordable commercial apartments available to buyers, rekindling average income-earners’ hopes of having a house of their own. BEIJING, June 23 2014 (Xinhu[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ideas’
CHINA: A Communist Approach to Affordable Housing In a Capitalist Real Estate Market
Anthony Washington: Black Lives Matter, Cuban Americans and the Tea Party
The Black Lives Matter movement cannot squander the momentum and support gained on the national level. The BLM movement needs to expand from just a cultural phenomenon, to a social, economic and political entity. The movement has taken steps in the right direction creating a plan deemed, “Campai[...]
February 26th, 2015 - 4:01 am § in Misc.
Pharyngula: Return of Superwater?
Has another Nobelist gone over the deep end? … from PZ Myers at Pharyngula: Luc Montagnier, the Nobel prize winning co-discoverer of the human immunodeficiency virus, …. claims in several papers that the DNA of pathogenic bacteria emits an electromagnetic signal, and further, that if you[...]
Anniversary of SS Struma
The SS Struma, whose passengers fled Romania and docked in Istanbul, was denied entry to Palestinian territory by colonial power Britain. On Feb. 23, 1942, Turkey towed the vessel to the Black Sea and set it adrift. A Soviet torpedo sank it the next morning, and only one person survived. The episode[...]
February 21st, 2015 - 4:03 am § in Uncategorized
How to argue with a scientist: A guide
from The Contemplative Mammoth, by Jacquelyn Gill ? December 6, 2011 ? I notice it all the time– on Facebook, in the comments of a science blog, over family gatherings, or listening to a radio talk show. Someone, maybe you, is patiently trying to explain how vaccines cause autism, perhaps, or why [...]
December 8th, 2014 - 1:47 am § in The Ave Scene
Zirx . the next BFT
Smart phone driven valet parking app! $15 day $5/gal for gasoline fill 5-7 minute pick up or deliver car. ZIRX is an on-demand valet startup that charges $15 a day to park your car (and bring it back to you)… And it just raised $6.4 million from Norwest Venture Partners and Trinity Vent[...]
November 2nd, 2014 - 10:20 pm § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Reuven Carlyle: Massive Expansion of the UW School of Medicine
Reuven Carlyle Thinks Big: Let the University of Washington Buy The Amgen Campus First it was Washington State University proposing to create a new medical school in Spokane for the absurdly low annual cost of 24 million dollars. Now, over at his blog, State Representative Reuven Carlyle h[...]
WHy is Cory Booker not praised in the Black community?
Recently a friend of mine asked me why New Jersey Senator, Cory Booker does not receive more recognition in the Black community as a leader? Although I do not speak for all black people I will attempt to give my friend an answer from my perspective. Although I do feel Cory Booker should be admired[...]
Letter to the President of the University of Washington
Dear President Young, My name is Anthony Washington. I am a former student-athlete at the University of Washington. I played under Lorenzo Romar from 2002-2004, before leaving after my sophomore year with 96 credits. A few days ago a friend of mine sent me a link to a story on ESPN by Adam Ritte[...]
US Government Building A Positronic Brain?
Will The NAS Build Asimov’s Brain? All current computers you and I use are based on lots of switches that go on and off ..the Xs and Os. Quantum computers .. using lots of different values .. would be hugely more powerful. Imagine a chip where every switch can work in three dimensions, each [...]