Although only a handful of economists think India’s growth will outpace China’s next year, a larger number believe it will do so this decade. The reasons are largely demographic. China’s economy cannot go on rapidly expanding once its labour force starts shrinking. Thanks to its one-child policy, introduced in 1978, the number of young Chinese …
Hi, This is Joseph Friedlander on a guest post for Next Big Future. Here we discuss long wave theory (56 year cycles involving booms, busts, wars, exuberance expeditions and scientific and engineering adventurism). I have spent a few days on and off looking at the 21stCenturyWaves.com site and wanted to give a digest for Next …
Phil, Stephen, and special guest Brian Wang discuss the possibility of average life expectancy jumping up to 100, 200, or 500 — or even older Fast forward radio at blogtalkradio The show starts at: 11:00 Eastern/10:00 Central/9:00 Mountain/8:00 Pacific. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks …
China is targeting 112 to 120 GW of nuclear power by itself for 2020. McKinsey indicated that China is targeting 120 GW for 2020. So the combined China, India and Vietnam target for the next 15 years is probably over 250 GW of new build. There is a mention in the Wall Street Journal article …
1. Kurzwelai reports that a European consortium has developed the Megaframe Imager, an ultrafast camera capable of recording images at one million frames per second. It allows for cellular and sub-cellular imaging, neural imaging, biosensing, DNA and protein microarray scanning, automotive collision studies, and high-sensitivity astronomical observations. Fluorescence lifetime biosensing with DNA microarrays and a …
The Carnival of Space 179 is up at Weird Sciences This site provided : What was the best way to use the Saturn V to reach the moon in retrospect ? Lunar Surface Rendezvous and other methods would have enabled 3 times more payload to be landed on the moon and if what was landed …
Astronomers have used powerful instruments on the Keck Observatory in Hawaii to detect the faint signature of red dwarfs in eight massive, relatively nearby galaxies called elliptical galaxies, which are located between about 50 million and 300 million light years away. They discovered that the red dwarfs, which are only between 10 and 20 percent …
McKinsey forecasts that China will have over one billion people living in cities by 2025 and India will have 590 million people in cities by 2030 Mckinsey Indian city report is 234 pages * Indian cities will create 70 percent of new jobs, and these will prove a powerful magnet. MGI projects that the urban …
New research from Tel Aviv University has found that “endurance exercises,” like a Central Park jog or a spinning class, can make us look younger. The key, exercise, unlocks the stem cells of our muscles. Prof. Dafna Benayahu and her team at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler School of Medicine say their findings explain for the …
Long-lived mitochondrial (Mit) mutants of Caenorhabditis elegans utilize a novel metabolism The secret to a long life comes from how we extract energy from our food. Scientists compared one class of long-lived C. elegans, called the Mit mutants, with non-mutant wild type C. elegans. Their comparison showed significant metabolism changes, suggesting that their cellular engines …
McKinsey – China’s Green Revolution (140 pages) Feb 2009 Recommendations – 1. Get coal generated power down to 34% of electrical generation or less (costs increase to 50 billion euros per year) 2. Go 100% electric cars and vehicles by 2020 (cost 70 billion euros/year) 3. Manage waste in high emission industries (steel, cement, chemicals, …