TREES SHIFT UPWARDS AS CLIMATE WARMS, DATA SHOW by D Perlman. SFGate, 12 June 2010 : Link

What I find amazing about this is that I often think it takes long for nature to adapt to change.   According to this article it actually happens a lot quicker than we think.    It is faster than the pace companies sometimes take to adapt to a changing business environment.    ....well maybe its because at least the trees know that their environment is changing...

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WHAT THE INTERNET IS DOING TO OUR BRAINS by P Tucker. The Futurist, Jul/Aug 2010 : Vol 44 Issue 4, p61-62

Some food for thought in here especially since I can identify with "The more we use the Web, the more we train our brain to be distracted, to process information very quickly and very efficiently but without sustained attention".   I do think there are some fundamental differences if I compare the mental activity of "working through a complex analysis problem" vs "doing research scanning the web".

Maybe the important thing is to learn how to do both and not let the one completely dominate the other.

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THE COMING AGE OF THE ELDERLY by F Pearce. New Scientist, 4 October 2010 : Vol. 205 Issue 2755, p26-27

Interesting article discussing the aging world population and the impact of that on the world and national economies as well as the family and geopolitical order.

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