Billionaire investor is bullish on agricultural commodities and bearish on all stocks for the next 2-3 years

CNBC – Jim Rogers expects global economic problems to get much worse. Rogers is short because he is not optimistic about what’s going to happen in the world over the next two or three years. “I’m short emerging markets, short American technology, short European stocks – I don’t see much reason to own equities,” he …

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The Future of Science 2021

The Institute for the Future has published “A Multiverse of Exploration – The Future of Science 2021” Invisibility cloaks. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence. A Facebook for genes. These were just a few of the startling topics IFTF explored at our recent Technology Horizons Program conference on the “Future of Science.” More than a dozen …

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Blueseed office seastead to open within 21 months

Blueseed (seasteading startup) plans to launch in the third quarter of 2013, offering living and office space in an elegantly designed modern tech environment so compelling that it will be called the “Googleplex of the Sea”, attracting top entrepreneurial and technology talent from all over the world to Silicon Valley, where they can create companies …

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Google+ on track for 400 million users by the end of 2012

Businessweek – Google Inc. is adding 625,000 new users a day to the Google+ social-networking service, which may total 400 million members by the end of next year, according to independent analysis of its growth. Facebook has more than 800 million users. Google+ has apparently just passed the 62 million user mark. Google can continue …

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Internet teaches you how to kip up and thriller dance

Internet videos not only let you learn physics from Richard Feynmann but also let you learn how to kip up from Ryan Doyle (Parkour expert) and how to dance the Michael Jackson Thriller Dance Learn how to kip up and more Parkour for Beginners Parkour Fight Science Learn how to Thriller Dance – first 6 …

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Hummingbird helicopter drones gets 1.8-gigapixel camera

The U.S. Army is using a hybrid-type acquisition approach to develop a helicopter-like, Vertical-Take-Off-and-Landing Unmanned Aerial System with a so-called ARGUS wide-area surveillance sensor suite designed to beam back information and images of the surrounding terrain, service officials said. Beginning in May or June of 2012, the Army will deploy three Boeing-built A160 Hummingbird Vertical-Take-Off-and-Landing …

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Nuclear, coal and other energy news

1. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano presented a forecast that the number of nuclear power plants would increase by 90 to 350 units in the world between now and 2030. The figure was estimated by IAEA following the accident at the Fukushima I nuclear power station operated by Tokyo Electric …

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