Collapsitarians are described the Technium. Former President Reagan defined a recession as when your friend lost his job and a depression as when you lost your job. Collapse is when no one has a job; in fact, there are no longer any such things as jobs to be had. Various types of doomers/collapsitarians/dystopians: * Luddites, …
The Invariant Set Hypothesis: A New Geometric Framework for the Foundations of Quantum Theory and the Role Played by Gravity. Ted Palmer studied general relativity at the University of Oxford, working under the same PhD adviser as Stephen Hawking. He has worked for the last 20 years as a leading mathematical climatologist. The Invariant Set …
The latest gene therapy treatments that are working through clinical trials are targeting problems that are localized in the body. Eventually there will be gene therapy success on non-localized problems. There is work to improve delivery of gene therapy without using viruses to avoid triggering immune response. There is also work on making genetic engineering …
Joe Eck continues to find materials with higher Meissner Transitions which indicate superconductivity. Since we are now just a “stone’s throw” from room temperature, he has placed this discovery into the public domain without patent protection. Other researchers are encouraged to examine this material and its structure. 40 degrees below zero is cold by any …
Engineers at Vanderbilt University’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) have developed a system that can give soldiers just such an edge by turning their combat helmets into “smart nodes” in a wireless sensor network. Soldiers can carry personal digital assistants that can display the location of enemy shooters in three dimensions and accurately identify …
Kindle 2 has text entry and and a basic web browser for text centric sites and wireless connectivity via Sprints data network. So you could use it to post blog entries and enter comments on other websites. The cost and value of wireless connectivity is one of the key differences. If you have internet connected …
About a 45 minute interview of the cold fusion researchers. Free Webcam Chat at Ustream Organizer, Jan Marwan, first 5 minutesSteven Krivit, New Energy Times, 6-10 minutes. Overview of the last 20 yearsAntonella De Ninno, 10-13 minutesPamela Boss, 13-17 minutes, Navy researcher who detected neutrons John Dash, 17-22 minutesMahadeva Srinivasan, 22-28Q & A 29-45 minutesTriple …
The Black Swan theory (in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s version) refers to a large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare event beyond the realm of normal expectations. Taleb regards many scientific discoveries as “black swans” — undirected and unpredicted. He gives the rise of the Internet, the personal computer, World War I, and the September 11, 2001 attacks as …
Carnival of Space Week 95 is up at the Orbital Hub Centauri Dreams looks at the chances for habital earth sized worlds around Red Dwarf stars This site submitted a technical update on the research of General Fusion towards making a fusion reactor using a variation on magnetized target fusion. Nancy Atkinson, writer for Universe …
From presentations at the American Chemical Society conference. 1. Excess heat, gamma radiation production from an unconventional LENR device —Tadahiko Mizuno, Ph.D., of Hokkaido University in Japan, has reported the production of excess heat generation and gamma ray emissions from an unconventional LENR device that uses phenanthrene, a type of hydrocarbon, as a reactant. He …
Futurismic has some of Karl Schroeder twittered short predictions of likely surprises for 2009. eBook Readers become as common as iPods. So ebook sales to track which part of the iPod quarterly sales jumps ? 240,000 kindle sales first half of 2008 Estimated 2008 Kindle sales are 500,000 So iPod like sales tracking would be …