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Last login: 36 hours agoJosh is a single guy from Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.
My name's Josh and I'm in my third (last) year of Robotics & Automation (at college). I enjoy challenging my Critical Thinking skills and raising my social conciousness. I love intelligent conversations, especially the TED talks.

Of course I keep my sanity in check with a good sense of humour and mellow attitude. I have strong opinions on things like climate change and social responsibility, but I'm also very practical and realistic with my ideas and actions for improving society.
Canadian HIV vaccine ready for human tests
Jul 1, 8:23pm    (1 review)  health, hiv, science, canada  http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/07/0...
whoa, really? I didn't even hear anything about this before now.
SPACE.com -- NASA Sports Drink Gives Everyone the Right Stuff
Jul 1, 7:50pm    (1 review)  health, nutrition, science, space, nasa  http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/09...
NASA releases its super duper sports drink to the public after 20 years in R&D... Now that's a drink I'd trust to work as advertised and I bet it tastes bad too (it should taste like sweat essentially).
Chinas toxic green light bulbs - 16 Jun 09
Jun 16, 7:58am    (1 review)  environment, video  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPWTFuDjS...
Use of LED lights... They're brighter, more efficient and last longer. The only downside is they don't diffuse as well, but you'll just have to find a model you like.


Daily Kos: State of the Nation
May 21, 11:46am    (29 reviews)  psychology, socialism, society, happiness  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/5...
Sweet Canada ranked 6th on world's happiest people.
Get to Know Your Soil &124; CMHC
May 21, 4:38am    (1 review)  gardening, canada, ontario, soil  http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/co/maho/la...
good information about soil.
Darpa: Heat + Energy = Brains. Now Make Us Some. | Danger Room
May 10, 5:29pm    (4 reviews)  chemical-eng, darpa, science, neuroscience, brain  http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/05/...
Darpa wants to create a thermodynamic model of the brain based on first principles... sweet.
Extras - KTLA
May 6, 5:24pm    (2 reviews)  health, immortality, science, life-extension, technology  http://www.ktla.com/news/extras/ktla-liv...
Methuselah Foundation does an interview... good to see them being active :)
THE MARK & NEWS AND PERSPECTIVES DAILY
May 5, 9:23pm    (2 reviews)  politics, canada, society, bussiness, news  http://themarknews.com/
New Canadian news website. It appears to aggregate a lot of other sites as well as have its own articles.
Pirate Party Banned from Social Networking Site | TorrentFreak
May 1, 8:29pm    (2 reviews)  internet, democracy, politics, p2p, rights-and-freedom  http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-ban...
From the page: "StudiVZ is a Facebook-style operation and itâ€s Germanyâ€s largest web-based social networking site. With the European Parliament elections in sight, the website recently opened up to established political parties for election campaigning. Not for all parties though, as they chose to ban the Pirate Party. "

From the page: "StudiVZ is a Facebook-style operation and itâ€s Germanyâ€s largest web-based social networking site. With the European Parliament elections in sight, the website recently opened up to established political parties for election campaigning. Not for all parties though, as they chose to ban the Pirate Party. "
globeandmail.com: Canada placed on copyright blacklist
Apr 30, 2:33pm    (1 review)  politics, p2p, canada, copyright, net-neutrality  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/s...
From the page: "Canada now joins a group of countries designated as being especially lax in protecting intellectual property, including Algeria, China, Russia, Pakistan, Indonesia and Venezuela."

I think there's two major kinds of piracy that I'm afraid are going to get one solution. There's the bad IP infringers that produce fake drugs/vitamins/toothpaste etc. which I agree Canada can do more about. But the US DMCA has done nothing to curtail online piracy and I think it's the wrong approach for Canada. We need strong fair-use policies and perhaps levies for artists paid through tax or on blank media which can be used to fund Canadian arts and media.

I agree with this approach digital policy blip.tv/file/1937322 [blip.tv/file/1937322]