Air temperatures in the Arctic are increasing at least twice as fast as the global average. What worries climate scientists about the Arctic summer of 2019? And why does it matter for the rest of the world? Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/climate-change-warming-arctic-means-for-the-rest-of-us…
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Do We Need To Rethink What Free Software Is?
Matthew Garrett is a security developer at Google and a Linux contributor who in 2014 won the Free Software Foundation’s annual “Advancement of Free Software” award. But now he’s asking if we need to re-think what free software is:
If users can pay Amazon to provide a hosted version of a piece of software, there’s little incentive for them to pay the…
Earth’s Oceans Are Getting Hotter and Higher, And It’s Accelerating, UN Report Warns
According to a new report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ocean warming is accelerating and sea levels are rising more quickly. “The report is a synthesis of the most up-to-date climate science on oceans and ice, and it lays out a stark reality: Ocean surface temperatures have been warming steadily since 1970, and for the past 25 years…
Was Venus ever habitable?
Today, Venus is hot, dry … hellish. But maybe not always. Scientists created 5 new computer simulations of Venus, all with some water coverage. All 5 models showed Venus as stable, temperate and with some water for 3 billion years. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/was-venus-ever-habitable…
Could Venus have been habitable?
Venus may have been a temperate planet hosting liquid water for 2-3 billion years, until a dramatic transformation starting over 700 million years ago resurfaced around 80% of the planet. A study presented today at the EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019 by Michael Way of The Goddard Institute for Space Science gives a new view of Venus’s climatic history and may have…
Grow a Vertical Garden [Chapter7] Homestead Handbook
Grow a Vertical Garden and save space on your homestead. Follow these backyard gardening tips to start your very own vertical garden, and enjoy all the fresh vegetables it will produce in minimal space. You are reading Chapter 7 of our gardening series in The Homestead Handbook: How to Grow All The Food You Need In Your Own Backyard…Continue Reading
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Exploring curiosity with Simon Brown, Chief Learning Officer at Novartis
Coursera sits down with Novartis’ Chief Learning Officer, Simon Brown, to learn how he and his team are fostering curious minds and a desire to learn across 130,000 employees in pharmaceutical and healthcare. Coursera: What drew Novartis to Coursera as a preferred learning solution? Simon: At Novartis our mission is to reimagine medicine, and we […]
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How Top-Valued Microsoft Has Avoided the Big Tech Backlash
Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple are targets of government investigations and public outrage, facing accusations that they abuse their power in various ways, from exploiting personal information to stifling rivals. Conspicuously absent from most of that criticism? Microsoft, a tech company worth more than them all. From a report: The software giant, valued at more than $1 trillion by investors, is…
What’s new on Coursera for Business – August 2019
By Kyle Clark, Senior Skills Transformation Consultant Coursera released 44 courses on our platform in August. We are particularly excited to announce a range of new courses from the manufacturing, architecture, and engineering design software industry leader, Autodesk, on Generative Design and CAD/CAM for manufacturing. Here are our top picks for enterprise for this past […]
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When did humans start altering Earth?
The ArchaeoGlobe Project assessed knowledge on human land use over the past 10,000 years, through the contributions of more than 200 archaeologists. It concluded that, by 3,000 years ago, most of Earth was already transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers and pastoralists. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/when-humans-start-altering-planet-earth-anthropocene…