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Etiqueta: Industrial Revolution

  • Earth Tipping Point Study In Nature Journal Predicts Disturbing And Unpredictable Changes

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    This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012. By Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Earth is rapidly headed toward a catastrophic breakdown if humans don’t get their act together, according to an international group of scientists. Writing Wednesday (June 6) in the journal Nature, the researchers…

  • Hurricane Katrina and the Hyperreality of the Image

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    Katrina y la hiperrealidad de la imagen (Spanish) Hurricane Katrina and the Hyperreality of the Image by Jorge Majfud Translated by Bruce Campbell September 2, 2005 In the 16th century, the Dominican brother Bartolomé de las Casas wrote an empassioned chronicle about the brutal conquest by the Spanish Empire of the new world. The denunciation…

  • One Bolivia, White and Wealthy

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    Una sola Bolivia, blanca y próspera (Spanish)   One Bolivia, White and Wealthy   The rapid Conquest of Amerindia would have been impossible without the Mesoamerican and Andean cosmology. Otherwise two mature empires, with millions of inhabitants and brave armies would never have succumbed to the madness of a handful of Spaniards. But it was…

  • Intellectual Capital

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    Intellectual Capital In 1970 the General Motors workers’ strike cut the U.S. GDP by 4 percent and is estimated to have been the reason for the poor 2 percent growth that the country experienced in the following years. Today the decline of all U.S. automotive industries affects just one percentage point. Almost all of the…