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Hunger in the World... 4.7 billion people live in underdeveloped countries. 40,000 people is dying of hunger every day, one person every 2 seconds. More than 1 billion people are in severe conditions of endemic malnutrition. 1.5 billion do not have access to clean drinking water. 12 million children perish due to starvation and extreme povertry. 6 millon people die from drinking contaminated water, which equates to more than 16,000 daily... |
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| THE NEXT FOUR BILLION | |
| 72% of the World population is considered "poor", but a recent
and exhaustive survey performed by the World Resources Institute reveals that
those 4,000 millions of people have a purchasing power higher than 3.7 trillion
euros. This report (164 pages, PDF, 11 MB.) is entitled "The next four billion: market size and
business strategy at the base of the pyramid".
This population segment forming the ‘Base of the Economic Pyramid’ (BOP), constitutes a $5 trillion global consumer market. |
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| EMERGENCY MEDICAL UNITS IN MOBILE CONTAINERS | |
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The WTSC Corporation supplies emergency medical units in mobile containers. It distributes of more than 6,500 modules to regions of Africa,
South America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
WTSC Corporation distributes and assembles emergency medical units in mobile containers through its WTSC foundation. These units are made up of completely equipped modules, enabling the provision of first aid service and basic medical specialties at any site where the container is transported and installed. |
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| REAL-TIME COUNTER | |
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Real-time counter of people dying, now and and today, of hunger.
Every day, almost 40,000 children die from hunger-related causes--one child every five seconds. More than 2 billion people worldwide suffer from micronutrient malnutrition, also called the "hidden hunger". 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water. Poor nutrition and calorie deficiencies cause nearly one in three people to die prematurely or have disabilities. Every year, more than 20 million low-birth weight babies are born in developing countries... |
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| POWERS OF TEN | |
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Powers of Ten illustrates the universe as an arena of both continuity and change,
of everyday picnics and cosmic mystery. Discover the relative size of everything
in the universe. Powers of Ten is based on a amazing film: "Powers of Ten" produced by The Office of Charles and Ray Eames. Format: "Streaming", 9 min. |
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| THE RAY KURZWEIL READER | |
| The Ray Kurzweil Reader is a collection
of essays by Ray Kurzweil on virtual reality, artificial intelligence, radical
life extension, conscious machines, the promise and peril of technology,
and other aspects of our future world. The 30 essays, organized in seven
memes (such as "How
to Build a Brain"), cover subjects ranging from a review of Matrix Reloaded
to "The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine" and "Human Body
Version 2.0." © Ray Kurzweil (a brief career summary) Format: PDF, 228 pages, 4.2 MB. |
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| WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2006 The most important press photo contest of the year |
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The international jury of the 49th annual World Press Photo contest selected a color image of the Canadian photographer Finbarr O'Reilly of Reuters as World Press Photo of the Year 2006. World Press Photo jury chairman James Colton described the winning image: "This picture has haunted me ever since I first saw it two weeks ago. It has stayed in my head, even after seeing all the thousands of others during the competition. This image has everything - beauty, horror and despair. It is simple, elegant and moving." |
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| VIRUS AND DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM | |
| "...The boss of a senior hexagon found a code as confusing as the others,
but one that had two almost homogenous lines. He showed his discovery to an itinerant
decoder, who told him they were drafted in a Babylonian code. Others told him
they were drafted in Yiddish. Centuries later a voice was heard from beyond: "No, don't do it like that... |
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