China has a relatively profitable foreign policy by only investing in reconstruction, trade deals with dictators and not committing troops to alter other countries. China will let whoever is in power in Iraq, Iran, Syria and other places. Those leaders do what they need to do and partner with whomever they need to partner with …
Asia could pass South America on per capita GDP around 2025. China and ASEAN countries are growing GDP at 5-7% per year and India is growing at 6-8% per year. South America has basically flat growth on GDP per capita basis. Africa remains far behind. Asia could pass Europe on per capita GDP in about …
Canadian research (Alberta) shows that the use of bridged nucleic acids to guide Cas9 can improve its specificity by over 10,000 times in certain instances — a dramatic improvement. Basil Hubbard, Canada Research Chair in Molecular Therapeutics and an assistant professor in the U of A’s Department of Pharmacology, and his team have filed a …
SpaceX has growing revenue which is crushing Amazon stock funded Blue Origin. Blue Origin new Glenn rocket might be flying by 2020 and could have 3 to 8 commercial flights by 2023. By the end of 2020, SpaceX should have 100 more commercial launches and by 2023 will have 200+ commercial launches and should be …
SpaceX has growing revenue which is crushing Amazon stock funded Blue Origin. Blue Origin new Glenn rocket might be flying by 2020 and could have 3 to 8 commercial flights by 2023. By the end of 2020, SpaceX should have 100 more commercial launches and by 2023 will have 200+ commercial launches and should be …
This might be the smartest mining opportunity in 2018. It’s not coal, oil, copper. Nor is it silver, gold or platinum. But one little-known miner called Vatic Ventures (TSXV:VCV.V) with a simple business strategy… is sitting on a potential find that could make a real difference in Asia. Their strategy? Scour the globe with the …
Ray Kurzweil discusses having a universe filled with Computronium. He discusses this happening within 200 years if wormholes or some other means allow faster than light travel. What would the computation limits of computronium be? There are several physical and practical limits to the amount of computation or data storage that can be performed with …
Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Griffin warned Congress the USA is falling behind China on hypersonic cruise missile. (Video and transcript from C-Span, from 14 to 17 minutes in the video) China has fielded or can field … hypersonic delivery systems for conventional prompt strike that reach out thousands of kilometers from …
Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Griffin warned Congress the USA is falling behind China on hypersonic cruise missile. (Video and transcript from C-Span, from 14 to 17 minutes in the video) China has fielded or can field … hypersonic delivery systems for conventional prompt strike that reach out thousands of kilometers from …
A team of Renewable Energy experts from the University of Exeter has pioneered a new technique to produce hydrogen from sunlight to create a clean, cheap and widely-available fuel. The team developed an innovative method to split water into its constituent parts – hydrogen and oxygen – using sunlight. The hydrogen can then be used …
The subcommittee on Emerging Threats and capabilities met Dr. Michael Griffin undersecretary of defense for Research and Engineering on accelerating new technologies to meet emerging threats. Rapid technological advancements have the potential to change the very character of war. Michael Griffin said “We need to have 100-kilowatt-class weapons on Army theater vehicles. We need to …