Reads for Tuesday 24 Feb 15

Microsoft's Secretive Hololens Project Combines Virtual Reality With Reality: Neuromancer Here We Come! (Wired Magazine) 

The Deep Intellect of Octupi (Orion Magazine)

Businessmen Vie To Open The First Ferry Charters Between Florida and Cuba (Business Insider) 

Wal-Mart's Minimum Wage Breakdown (Barry Ritholtz in Bloomberg)

Intel To Announce Their New 10 Nanometer Silicon Manufacturing Process; Will Move Away From Silicon When Moore's Law Takes Them Down to 7 Nanometers (Ars Technica) 

Department of Justice Opens Investigation Into At Least 10 TBTF Banks' Manipulation of Metals/Precious Metals Markets (Bloomberg)

"The Pentagon & Climate Change: How Deniers Put National Security At Risk" (Rolling Stone Magazine)

Bikram Yoga Founder Accused of New Rape Charges/Human Trafficking (The Guardian UK)

How having the proper "Growth Mindset" can help us all become better investors (John Reeves - Motley Fool)

Today, Alaska Become 3rd State To Legalize Marijuana Growing and Smoking (ABC News)

California Drought Exposes Boats, Man Made Reefs and Other Detritus In Drying Up Lakes (NPR) 

Russia/Exxon strike oil in the vast Arctic

Rolling Stone Magazine: "Inside The Koch Brothers' Toxic Empire`

Occupy Central in Hong Kong has entered Day 2 and has now grown to 50,000 civil disobedient protesters

The Automatic Earth: The US has no banking regulation and it doesn't want any

Climate Change And The 2012 Drought: NOW Interviews Dr. Jeffrey Sachs of the Earth Institute and Eric Bates of Rolling Stone

Alex Wagner on NBC's NOW interviews Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He talks about the drought plaguing the U.S., its political implications, and what it means about changing the views of denialists on climate change.

Ms. Wagner also has on Eric Bates, Executive Editor of Rolling Stone Magazine, which recently published an alarming and much discussed story about climate change, Global Warming's Terrifying New Math by Bill McKibben. Published more than a month ago on its website, this story is still the number one article on its "Most Popular" sidebar.

Both Wagner and Bates lacerate lobbyists and big money men from Big Oil -such as the Koch Brothers - who buy and payoff politicians to give distorted views on science and the environment.

As climate change causes more disturbances in weather, and as more Americans wake up to how climate change can negatively affect farmers, food prices, and those businesses, small and large, downstream, the more pressure will be put on the Kochs, Murdochs and Trumps of this world who deny climate change is here and is for real:

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