Penn World tables 7.1 has been released and has an internet forms interface which html, SAS and text file formats. The data is up to 2010. They have two methods for calculating China’s PPP and have a result of 10.8 trillion or 11.7 trillion. India’s PPP GDP 2010 Penn World Tables 7.1 was 4.69 trillion …
EETimes – Parrot, is a “universal receiver” that can link with any mobile phone. Parrot, based here, has developed what Seydoux describes as “a counterpart to a smartphone” that enhances voice quality for hands-free car phones while improving audio acoustics. A voice recognition feature provides access to the smartphone’s address book. Parrot’s AR.Drone 2.0 captures …
A seamless graphene/nanotube hybrid created at Rice University may be the best electrode interface material possible for many energy storage and electronics applications. Led by Rice chemist James Tour, researchers have successfully grown forests of carbon nanotubes that rise quickly from sheets of graphene to astounding lengths of up to 120 microns, according to a …
Annalee Newitz makes several points in an article at io9 that the “future is not accelerating”. 1. The future is not coming at us any faster than it ever has. 2. We will not become immortal cyborgs with superintelligent computer friends in the next twenty years. 3. We can’t expect all the efforts we make …
George Dvorsky at io9 reviewed the Harold White work on Warp drive at NASA Eagleworks. The main new statement is that if this research were to fully pan out and get developed then we would be able to travel to the stars in weeks instead of decades. The Next Step – experimentally detect warping of …
Foreign Affairs Magazine – The Broken BRICS by Ruchir Sharma. Ruchir is head of Emerging Markets and Global Macro at Morgan Stanley Investment Management and the author of Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles. I think that Ruchir is overly pessimistic about China. I do agree that many other nations have to …
New Scientist – One of the two new studies shows that last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in 2007, underestimated actual sea level rise. That’s because the IPCC’s fourth assessment report (AR4) did not include contributions from the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. So, for the years …
A team of researchers from the University of Waterloo has built the world’s largest simulation Spaun Anatomical architecture (credit: Chris Eliasmith et al./Science) “This is the first model that begins to get at how our brains can perform a wide variety of tasks in a flexible manner—how the brain coordinates the flow of information between …
LPP’s chief scientist Eric Lerner explains who’s who in the world of fusion energy research and what’s the latest in plasma physics and nuclear fusion. This presentation was hosted by the Center for Economic and Environmental Partnership at the Ernst & Young location in New York City’s Times Square, on October 12 2012. This is …