Space-borne sunshades, crowdsourcing the news, Bush more of a threat than Kim Jong-il, HAPTEX…

• 1 – Space sunshade might be feasible in global warming emergency
  “The spacecraft would form a long, cylindrical cloud with a diameter about half that of Earth, and about 10 times longer.” And people accuse science fiction of ignoring simpler solutions!
  (tags: futurism geoengineering cloud shade sun orbit space technology warming global)
• 2 – Climate change special: State of denial
  “If the acrimony were to become so intense that American scientists were forced to stop helping in the preparation of IPCC reports, it could seriously dent the organisation and rob the world of some significant voices in the climate change debate.”
  (tags: perception science debate anthropic warming global corruption denialist politics US change climate)
• 3 – Gannett to Crowdsource News
  “Gannett, the publisher of USA Today as well as 90 other American daily newspapers, will begin crowdsourcing many of its newsgathering functions.” The times they are a-changing.
  (tags: blogging community collective crowdsourcing media newspapers journalism Gannett publishing news US)
• 4 – British believe Bush more dangerous than Kim Jong-il
  “…research also shows that British voters see George Bush as a greater danger to world peace than either the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, or the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.” Largely because Bush’s weapons *aren’t* vapourware.
  (tags: threat peace world Bush global politics danger British report survey UK)
• 5 – Haptic simulation of virtual textiles
  “It is easy to choose colors and sizes of clothes on many websites, but it’s impossible to touch the material. So, European scientists are using [...] haptic simulation, to reproduce the sense of touch when interacting with virtual textiles.”
  (tags: shopping online textiles fabrics texture tactile simulation remote haptics technology science Europe HAPTEX)