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e are a few petitions i have just signed in no special order abolish abstinence only education from us public schools promote enforce the teaching of evolution over creationism keep the united states out of a war with iran we need investment at home not another dumb war abroad lower the national debt by expanding the government s use of free software such as gnu linux and libreoffice end the destructive wasteful and counterproductive war on drugs propose legislation that would make all federal election days national holidays to increase voter turnout that s not all but it will do for the purpose i should note that you can ask to see petitions by category and you can search for particular words in petition statements what would you like to tell the president his advisors his opponents and the world don t be shy don t pretend that it doesn t matter only a few hundred thousand people have voted there so far so your influence is out of proportion to your number and let any students that you come into contact with know that they can do the same without having to reach legal voting age for official elections added later i have created a new petition requesting federal funding for a program to create open education resources for all subjects at all levels giving the reasons that readers of this blog are familiar with we need 150 votes to get this to be visible to everybody on the white house web site please vote and pass it on i m off to twitter facebook google and elsewhere to spread the word posted in country tagged civics petition vote white house 1 comment great news from sonora mexico posted on 2012 02 22 by mokurai today s post is a straight press release from olpc about the plan for saturation one to one computing in the state of sonora mexico and about deployments elsewhere in mexico now we need to talk to them about digitizing and softwareizing spanish language textbooks computerizing their curriculum and upgrading their teacher training miami feb 21 2012 business wire one laptop per child olpc a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide every child in the world access to new channels of learning sharing and self expression announced today that the state of sonora mexico is distributing 5 000 xo laptops to elementary school children adoption of the olpc program is part of the state s larger plan to extend internet connectivity to all its citizens in accordance with the un s declaration of internet access as a basic human right sonora is the first state in mexico to establish connectivity as a human right in its constitution the olpc project in sonora will be implemented by nueva generacion sonora a c new sonora generation a nonprofit organization whose goal is to provide every child in the state access to the knowledge economy through strategic use of information and communication technologies and programs during the next three years 350 000 xo laptops will saturate all elementary schools in sonora in addition xo laptops will be implemented in more than 100 community centers that will offer connectivity and technical and pedagogical support to students and teachers and for local projects to benefit their communities the olpc project has the full support of governor guillermo padres and the mayors of sonora as well as the social development secretariat sedesol of the federal government improving children s education is a key goal for my administration said governor guillermo padres of the state of sonora society and government must work together to support projects that will ensure a better future for all our citizens education is everyone s responsibility sonora is the latest mexican state to launch an olpc program in september 2010 500 xo laptops funded by procter gamble were distributed to indigenous children in san felipe del progreso state of mexico in august 2011 the general department of indigenous education of the ministry of education distributed 1 800 xo s to remote schools in the state of nayarit in western mexico as part of this project the sugar learning environment is being translated into several indigenous languages huichol cora and mexicanero 1 900 xos are also in the process of being distributed to children in the state of san luis potosi in north central mexico for this region sugar has being translated into teenek our progress in mexico is based on partnerships between the public and private sector said rodrigo arboleda chairman and ceo of the one laptop per child association mexico is a very diverse country and we are focused on projects that bring learning to all children including those who speak indigenous languages about one laptop per child one laptop per child olpc at http www laptop org is a non profit organization whose mission is to provide every child in the world access to new channels of learning sharing and self expression in partnership with the public and private sectors and non governmental organizations and supported by comprehensive implementation and pedagogical services olpc seeks to provide each child with a rugged low cost low power connected laptop that empowers individual learning and growth source one laptop per child posted in country tagged deployment mexico 1 comment the nation calls i answer posted on 2012 02 21 by mokurai chris hayes of the nation that famous liberal bias you can t find anywhere else tweeted chrislhayes can someone write an awesome definitive 8 10k magazine article about the current natural gas boom fracking and climate kthxbai and i tweeted back ed mokurai cherlin mokurai chrislhayes i could but i m too busy educating millions of poor children so that they all will be able to do it this is not rocket science even if nasa satellites are one of our most important sources of data we are talking about measuring temperature and its causes and effects then we have to think about the causes of the causes and the effects of the effects all of the scientific concepts required but not all of the experimental techniques and certainly not the supercomputer modeling are well within the limits of high school physics chemistry and biology of course there are also questions of economics and political science involved that nobody is taught correctly for example it isn t a free market if corporations have the power to set prices it especially isn t a free market if corporations are able to buy legislative administrative and legal favors including subsidies tenured professorships for their tame economists and favorable treatment in textbooks it isn t a free market if you and i can t find out what is going on behind closed doors at corporations or in government but legislators can trade stock based on information received in closed door hearings which they can do only because congress exempted itself from the insider trading laws it isn t a free market for anybody who isn t permitted to get to it including not just poor people the world over but entire governments of poor countries that have no representation in global financial institutions while the biggest countries often get to name the people running the institutions or may have a veto over any meaningful action it isn t a free market when freshwater great lakes economists market fundamentalists of the milton friedman chicago school can deny the existence of market bubbles and crashes without being hooted out of the room likewise for the arthur laffer school also at chicago of trickle down supply side voodoo economics it isn t a free market of ideas when creationists and pandering politicians can claim that global warming is a hoax without being hooted out of the election cycle a creationism in schools bill was introduced in indiana where i live only a few weeks ago it appears to have been hooted off the stage i blogged here about it and about how much science you have to disbelieve in order to be an informed creationist but let s get back to climate science here is the most important single fact about global warming the reality is consistently worse every year than the supposed worst case scenarios in the scientific models of previous years yes the models are all wrong it s worse much worse in fact we don t even know how much worse yet but it is a safe bet that it will get worser and worser as lewis carroll s alice might have put it the sea air ice and land are all warmer than scientists thought possible by now and will therefore continue warming at a faster rate for longer than they thought possible the seasons are shifting and animal habitats are moving toward the poles or further up the mountains except for species already living on mountaintops with nowhere to go we are having more and worse storms along with more and worse droughts as evaporation increases and wind patterns shift arctic permafrosts are melting faster they have been holding in vast amounts of methane which is a stronger greenhouse gas than co 2 glaciers are shrinking everywhere from greenland to tibet to mt kilimanjaro to antarctica and sea levels are correspondingly rising sea levels are also rising from expansion of the water as it warms something like a quarter of the excess carbon dioxide is dissolving in the oceans making them more acidic carbonic acid h 2 o co 2 h 2 co 3 and weakening the calcium based skeletons and shells of corals shellfish and other ocean life warmer ocean water is killing corals and putting at risk everything that lives in or around coral reefs the facts on natural gas are easy methane has the formula ch 4 and octane as in gasoline is c 8 h 18 so the ratio of hydrogen to carbon is better in methane by a factor of almost 2 to 1 and natural gas is thus only half as carbon intensive as gasoline and other petroleum based fuels coal is nearly all carbon so it is the most carbon intensive so natural gas is better than oil which is better than coal and we should substitute it in many power plants however better is not the same as good cutting our carbon footprint in half is nowhere near good enough so the self congratulatory advertising you see from oil companies if you watch tv at all about how wonderful their natural gas production is comes down in the language of the unfortunately unreliable politifact to pants on fire lies surrounding irrelevant truths we need renewable carbon neutral energy and even more than that we need carbon negative conservation which turns out to save money right on the corporate bottom line unfortunately conservation managers usually don t get no respect inside corporations the issues around fracking are harder to explain clearly not because of the inherent difficulty in the subject which does exist but is not essential for understanding the issues the real problem is that it is harder to winnow the facts out of the propaganda from both supporters and opponents again the essential points require no more than high school level science here is what i think i know so far fracking can be done safely but sometimes occasionally frequently is not only a modest number of wells apparently drilled by a few rogue companies have been definitely found to have gone bad leaking natural gas into groundwater out of the many thousands drilled a few companies have not used the proper bore sealing techniques for the parts of the holes penetrating groundwater formations and those that have been caught have been penalized sometimes even barred from further drilling many more companies have been found mishandling used fracking fluids returned up the boreholes allowing them to contaminate soils water and air here enforcement appears to be lagging the fracking industry operates under the so called halliburton exemption to the clean water act championed by former vice president dick cheney previously ceo of halliburton among other things this prevents the epa from requiring disclosure of fracking fluid composition water wells can penetrate gas bearing formations notably in pennsylvania this occasionally results in water that can be set on fire at the tap there are isotopic tests that can distinguish these from gas coming out of much deeper shale formations via fracking but there appears to be no public data source covering enough such test results neither the corporate right nor the populist left is willing to discuss such results in public noted fracker t boone pickens has publicly denied the existence of any of the known problems others in the industry have compared the opposition to fracking to an insurgency and claim to be using military counter insurgency and psychological warfare techniques on opponents on the other side the documentary gasland fails to acknowledge that gas contamination of wells can come from natural sources as with global warming we have a question capable of scientific answers which is unfortunately mired in pseudo economics and partisan politics all of this can as i said above be explained at the high school level and should be addressed in open education resources we also need to put this to elementary school students and find out how much of it we can explain to them what would happen if we could teach a billion children at a time about all of this stuff and get them together to discuss what to do about it posted in economics tagged economics fracking global warming political science science leave a comment open shmopen posted on 2012 02 14 by mokurai open apis are the new open source by jay lyman linuxinsider 02 14 12 5 00 am pt there was a time 10 years ago or so when open source was good enough that is it served as a viable often lower cost lower hassle alternative to the proprietary software of the day today all software is generally more open and i believe we ve reached a point when non open source software is often open enough at first i couldn t believe that i was reading this in a linux publication we don t need open source much less free software with all of its freedoms we should apparently rejoice in vendor lockin where a company insists that we can only run its software on its web site because it has deigned to allow us to access its api to write software for its benefit that s plenty open according to jay lyman i commented open apis are still closed source and non free mokurai posted 2012 02 14 the point about free software is not that you can write software to work in somebody else s walled garden but that you can modify it and distribute the results under the same or compatible licenses this is true just as much for cloud computing as for desktops and other devices being able to use only the vendor s instance of software is not nearly open or free enough i work with floss manuals on collaborative documentation of free software and i have had an instance of their booki booktype free software set up for my other work as program manager for replacing textbooks at sugar labs it is vital to what we do that we can modify this software for use on our own server not least that we can localize it for those writing textbooks for millions of 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