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State Welfare Rolls Feel Impact Of Recession
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:21:00 -0400
Welfare caseloads have been going up in most states over the past year, but not in all of them. In fact, cases are going down in some of the hardest-hit areas. That's raised questions about whether the program is an adequate safety net for families in need.
In Defense Of The Flag (Created For History Class)
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:53:00 -0400
Bob Heft, who sewed the 50-state flag as a high schooler, received a B- for his project. Heft's history teacher accused him of not knowing how many states were in the union at the time. The teacher changed the grade when the design was accepted by Congress.
Hundreds Of Calif. Homeless March For Land Rights
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:47:00 -0400
In Sacramento, hundreds of homeless demonstrate in hopes of securing land to sleep on. In recent months a tent city and a city shelter have closed. With laws that prohibit sleeping in public places, these individuals say it is now illegal for them to exist.

The Talk of the Town

Lauren Collins: Track School
Lauren Collins Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0000
June marks the onset of what one Village resident refers to as “devil-baby season”--the time of the year when the temperature climbs and New Yorkers start doing crazy stuff. This year, the weather stayed cold, and damp. Things still got weird. On Long Island, a newborn was found . . .
James Surowiecki: Caveat Mortgagor
James Surowiecki Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0000
In 1937, the Massengill Company began selling a health product called Elixir Sulfanilamide, which contained one of the antibiotic sulfa drugs. Unfortunately, it also contained diethylene glycol, a solvent that happens to be deadly to humans. In a matter of months, the elixir killed more than a hundred consumers. The . . .
Hendrik Hertzberg: Stonewall Plus Forty
Hendrik Hertzberg Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0000
The most improbable of America’s mass movements for civil rights--improbable at the time, inevitable in retrospect--got its start at a most improbable hour in a most improbable place. The hour: two in the morning, forty years ago. The place: the sidewalk in front of the Stonewall Inn, a . . .

 

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A Brief History of the Apocalypse: The Future - A timeline of our apocalyptic future if religious-based predictions all come true.

2012: Dire Gnosis - Prophecies focussed on the year AD 2012 with sources including calendrical systems, visions, religions, archaeology, tribal prophecies, NDEs, OOBEs, contemporary shamanism.

21st century - Wikipedia - User-supported 21st century timeline plus predictions for the future.

A Future Timeline of Humanity and the Universe - Predicts technological and sociological developments over the next millennium, and forecasts the ultimate destiny of humanity and the universe. Gets better the farther out.

Armageddon - Claims Armageddon will come in the year 2006 when Atlantis rises from the Caribbean.

Arthur C. Clarke's Predictions - Science fiction king's predictions about the future on Kurzweil AI Net.

404 Battelle - Technology Forecasts - Battelle Institute predicts technology through 2010 C.E. Includes top ten technologies by 2005, top ten breakthroughs for household products by 2007, and other top ten lists.

Book Review: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, by Ray Kurzweil - Book discusses Moore's Law (computers double in intelligence every two years) and how AI will inevitably surpass human intelligence in about 20 years.
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404 Dr. David Passig - Futurist lecturer-consultant who specializes in technological, social and educational forecasting. Materials in English and Hebrew.

404 Essence: A Few Rules for Predicting the Future, by Octavia E. Butler - A science fiction writer explains how to use the past to come up with useful future scenarios.
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Failing Predictions:. Future society - Claims that predictions usually fail. Nevertheless gives a summary of unsolved conflicts in present-day society that will affect the future.
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Falling Forward - Science fiction writer Brian Dana Akers' predictions for the 21st century.
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Future History (David Cary) - Attempts to predict future technological trends.

Global Change - What Will the Future be Like? - Web TV, online books and features by Futurist Dr. Patrick Dixon: future of life on earth, cloning, biotech, digital age, business, banking, management, marketing, lifestyles, health, politics, economics.
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Humanity's Future - Forecasts humanity's next two millennia to identify technological, sociopolitical, industrial and academic developments.

ICalledIt - Predicting the future, one post at a time - A Net community for forecasting the future publicly in hopes of influencing it.

Life in the Future - General predictions for the year 2010.
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Long Bets - Discussion and wagers on important future events.

Mooneyham's Speculative Timeline - A timeline of the future based on technological scientific predictions.

NY Chinatown's Future Predictions - Audio interviews and links to the predictions of futurists.

Part I: Timeline: past and future - A future timeline based on combining Biblical with extraterrestrial and some scientific sources.

Peering into the future - InfoWorld Test Center's Future Watch. Future timeline of computer technology and enterprise computing.
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Phrenicea - Presents a futuristic scenario based on the ultimate outcome of the Internet and biotechnology revolutions; promotes discussion and debate of present-day technological and social trends.
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404 Planet X - Ceshall - Nibiru - Discussions of Planet X and the impending collision with Earth, related biblical prophecies, astrological signs, and webcam photos.

Prediction - An anonymous clairvoyant makes predictions about the shape of the future world.
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Predictions and Prophesy - Summary of ancient and modern prophecies of the end of the world, plus the Global Disaster Watch.
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Retro Future - Twentieth century predictions of future technology that never happened.

500 Strategy Governmental Future Models - Contains predictions on the future of Europe, domains, agriculture broadcasters, newspapers, media, wireless, real estate, and taxes.
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Take Hold of the Future - Offers many videos, magazine articles, and books on all aspects of the future by Dr. Patrick Dixon.
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The Chronicle of the Future - By the Sunday Times.

The Global Technology Revolution: Summary - Predicts impact of technology on life in the year 2015.

The Millennium Calendar - Chronological schedule of predicted and actual events linked to millennial prophecies, including NASA space launches. Runs from Rapture expected in 1998 to end of the world in 3797.
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The Preparation - Explores the need for space colonization, asteroid mining, and transhumans.
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The World of 2088 - What the world will be like according to the Univ. of Washington.

The Year 2012 - News, speculation, and prophecy on the year 2012.
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Timeline tracks possible future of technology - BTexact Technologies offers a white paper.

Using World History to Predict the Future - Civilizations have predictable life cycles.
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404 Views of the Future - Forecasts of future social and technological developments by BTexact Technologies' staff futurist, Ian Pearson: the future of everything from Christmas dinner to nanotechnology.
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404 What is Really Going to Happen - Running predictions of near-future events.