09-28-2015, 01:47 AM
Yet, as Nesvetailova observes, it may be Russia’s complex and increasingly financialised economy — including its connections to an offshore nexus — which may prove a greater threat for the country’s stability than just low oil prices. According to Nesvetailova, financial channels which once underpinned the success of Putin’s Russia now work as crisis transmission mechanisms instead.
Unravelling Russia’s offshore financial nexus | FT Alphaville
Researchers demonstrate a wearable system for tracking chemicals in saliva that may correspond to fatigue and other health issues.
Fitness Tracking Expands to Saliva with Mouthguard Sensors | MIT Technology Review
The 1996 welfare reform had a carrot and a stick. The carrot was that, by expanding work-related aid — most importantly the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) — it dramatically improved government benefits for the working poor. In fact, the U.S. spends much more on poverty relief today than it did before the reform. But as a stick, the country's cash welfare program was eliminated and replaced with a much less generous one, one that provided benefits for only a limited time and required recipients to find jobs. The reform did what it was supposed to. In the wake of the law, aided by a booming economy, previously non-working welfare recipients flooded into the workforce. Child poverty dropped and never returned to its previous peak; the EITC today lifts 3 million children above the poverty line. Even what the government calls "deep poverty" — half the poverty line — fell among never-married mothers.
Those Welfare Reform Left Behind | RealClearPolicy
Printed batteries, posters capable of detecting touch, WiFi-blocking and noise-absorbing paper, these are just a selection of innovations brought together by the ‘Paper Evolutions: Exploring digital and physical paper futures’ exhibition hosted by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland on September 9th in Finland.
The future of print and paper: digital hybrids - Electronics Eetimes
A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego announced Tuesday that they had developed a proof-of-concept wireless transmission system that is both more efficient and more secure than Bluetooth. It works by sending data signals through your body's natural magnetic field instead of over the air and could lead to a new class of ultra-low power wearables.