From the Wall Street Journal: American and Chinese officials said all the right things during this summer’s inaugural round of their Strategic and Economic Dialogue. President Barack Obama pledged to “forge a path to the future that we seek for our children.” Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo wondered aloud whether America and China can “build …
Dan Yurman has an updated interview of the CEO of Hyperion Power Generation. John (Grizz) Deal is an expressive driver of an entrepreneurial start-up that has spun out unique nuclear reactor technology from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). It’s not a conventional reactor with fuel rods and cooling systems. Instead, it is a 25 …
A study on the ethics of human enhancement has been completed. Entitled “Ethics of Human Enhancement: 25 Questions & Answers,” the 50-page report serves as a convenient and accessible starting point for both public and classroom discussions, such as in bioethics seminars. The 50 page pdf is here and is available for free download. Some …
Wired reports that Tom Baker [the fourth of 11 actors who have played Dr. Who] stars in Doctor Who: Hornet’s Nest, a five-part adventure series for BBC audio dramas. The first episode (”The Stuff of Nightmares”) will be released Thursday in the United Kingdom, with subsequent episodes arriving Oct. 8 (”The Dead Shoes”) and Nov. …
Africa Has Had About 6% Annual GDP Growth and 3% per Capita GDP Growth Since 2001 In 2009, the economic crisis has hurt growth but much of Africa is heading back to 4-5% growth in 2010 and probably back to 6% growth in 2011 onwards. Economic Growth Has Had a Positive Impact on Poverty Reduction …
A pdf of a 2006 presentation updating the work to design plants to survive on Mars [this article was posted on Oct 26, 2006 and has been updated] Gluthathione Reductase (GOR) from Colwellia psychrerythraea was cloned and overexpressed in E coli and is cold active. [Times were from a late 2006 timeframe] They are putting …
Business Week reports on the BP (British Petroleum) project to modernize the Rumaila oil field to nearly double its production and restore Iraq’s power in OPEC. A lot of the underproduction of “easy oil reserves” is in Iraq and Nigeria. Brazil, Russia, China, United States, Kazakhstan and Canada have key oil megaprojects that are non-OPEC …
Jeff Welser Interview Here is the Jeff Welser interview by Sander Olson. Dr. Welser is the Director of the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI). The NRI was established in 2004 in order to develop post-silicon CMOS computing technologies, which will be needed by 2020 if not earlier. The NRI is hoping that a post-CMOS technology will …
The wealthy and affluent are 2.5 times more engaged than the poor in offline politics and over 4 times more engaged than the poor in online politics. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. …
Seekingalpha looks at some deficit scenarios: Current law commits to the Bush tax cuts only until the end of 2010 ($7.1 trillion in deficits); but President Obama has proposed to extend most of the Bush tax cuts in his budget proposal ($9.1 – $10.3 trillion); and therefore Obama Administration tax policy is not that different …
ACS Nano reports that a step toward high throughput continuous nanoimprinting has been made. Nanoimprinting could eventually achieve 2 nanometer features. Currently this higher volume method is at about 50-300 nanometer features. The research team has performed some 50 nm large area nanoimprinting but this roll to roll process (higher speed) is at 300 nanometer …