Category: Future Predictions


No Longer Terrorism but Social Unrest is Now the Focus of Worry as the Speed of Change is Ten Years in Just Ten Months

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February 5, 2012

Moody’s warns of ‘social unrest’ as sovereign debt spirals

Pundits, Professors and their Predictions


The world’s leading opinion-shapers from the media and academia debate scenarios for 2012 and beyond as what was change in ten years is happening in just ten months.


• Thomas L. Friedman, Columnist, Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, USA
• Kishore Mahbubani, Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Global Agenda Council on China
• Gideon Rachman, Associate Editor, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times, United Kingdom; Global Agenda Council on Geopolitical Risk
• Nouriel Roubini, Professor of Economics and International Business, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, USA; Global Agenda Council on Fiscal Crises
• Robert J. Shiller, Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, Yale University, USA

Moderated by
• Nik Gowing, Main Presenter, BBC World News, United Kingdom

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The Future of Cardiology Treatment Prescribes Yoga as it Has Been Shown to Reduce the Number of Potential AF Cardiac Episodes by up to 40%

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February 4, 2012

Yoga may have positive effect on anxiety, depression, and arrhythmia [Atrial fibrillation (AF or A-fib) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia (irregular heart beat]. Source: Cardiology Today

“Emotional stress is very well correlated with AF. A lot of patients with AF complain of significant anxiety and depression, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, MD, director of the Center for Excellence in AF and EP Researcher at the University of Kansas, told Cardiology Today. “However, it is unclear whether anxiety and depression bring on the AF or if AF brings on the anxiety and depression.”

During a session here, Lakkireddy presented unpublished data from a study that measured quality of life, anxiety and depression in patients with AF. The study included 49 patients who participated in two 60-minute yoga sessions a week for 3 months. Researchers measured quality of life, anxiety and depression scores at baseline and again at the end of 3 months. Additionally, yoga reduced symptomatic AF episodes from 3.8 at baseline to 2.9 at 3 months. The number of asymptomatic AF episodes was also reduced after yoga practice, Lakkireddy said. Yoga was also associated with improved quality of life, anxiety and depression scores at the end of the study period. Correlation analysis showed that change in anxiety and depression correlated with the change in the number of AF episodes.

“There was a 35% to 40% reduction in the number of AF episodes in this study,” Lakkireddy said in an interview. “Yoga doesn’t completely cure AF, but in gross terms, the number of AF episodes was significantly lowered to reach statistical significance.”

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World’s Largest Aquarium Big Tank, Atlanta

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February 4, 2012

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Predictions: Discovery Next World Series Unlocking the Future

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February 3, 2012

Brought to you by Discovery Channel

The Discovery Channel series NextWorld reveals the technologies that will shape our tomorrow.

Discovery.Next World 1 of 6 – Future of life on Earth

Discovery.Next World 2 of 6 – Future Intelligence

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Future of Debt a Result of the Cost of War

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February 3, 2012

U.S. SPENDING PROJECTIONS THRU 2055 AS REVENUE THEN WON’T EVEN COVER DEBT INTEREST COSTS

[Source Peterson Foundation]

WHAT IS DEBT? A HISTORY OF DEBT OVER THE PAST 5,000 YEARS!

GROSS DEBT, AS OF GDP, PER CAPITA STATISTICS FOR THE TOP 20 WORLD’S MOST IN DEBT COUNTRIES

The U.S.A. ranks 20th…

20. United States – External debt (as % of GDP): 101.1%
Gross external debt: $14.825 trillion
2009 GDP (est): $14.66 trillion
External debt per capita: $48,258

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