The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts and Smart Dubai are making the first Court of the Blockchain. They will expand existing dispute resolution services and explore how to aid verification of court judgments for cross-border enforcement. The plan is to streamline the judicial process, removing document duplications, and driving greater efficiencies across the entire …
I have maintained a 16-hour Intermittent fasting, Myfitness Pal and Exercise plan. I have lost a few more pounds, since I first blogged about starting the new plan. It has been an average loss of one pound a week for 7 weeks. I have been able to most confine eating to between noon and 8pm. …
Banning plastic straws and plastic bags are justified to as part of a solution to plastic in the oceans and reduction of landfill. Even advocates admit that these regulations will not solve the ocean problem. Straw bans are intended as a gateway plastic to encourage the movement to biodegradable trash. Many people with disabilities need …
America needs to get serious about its spacefaring future. There needs to be an aggressive political, economic, and military strategy to help transition to space-based sustainable energy to replace fossil fuels. A fully reusable SpaceX BFR will enable space-based solar power to be a clean energy source that is lower cost than coal. In order …
In 2014, scientists succeeded in bringing a frozen animal (Tardigrades are also known as ‘water bears’ or ‘moss piglets’ ) back to life after 30 years. Nemotode worms were brought back to life and were moving and eating after being frozen for 42,000 years. The Pleistocene nematodes have some adaptive mechanisms that may be of …
The fictional Captain America was frozen and came back to life after about a few decades. Now in reality, roundworms from two areas of Siberia came back to life in Petri dishes after being frozen for 42,000 years. Neanderthals were just going extinct about the time these worms were frozen. The first human aboriginal settlements …
Luke, Leia and Lando will be in Star Wars IX. Unused footage from Star Wars the Force Awakens will be used for the Carrie Fisher / Princess Leia scenes. It is difficult to see how unused footage could be used to significantly advance the movie plot. It would likely to be part of an onscreen …
The lymphatic vessels long thought not to exist are essential to the brain’s ability to cleanse itself. UVA researchers were able to use a compound to improve the flow of waste from the brain to the lymph nodes in the neck of aged mice. The vessels became larger and drained better, and that had a …
In California, both wind and solar generation are about ten times less in the lowest months versus the top three months. If California reaches the 80% mark for renewables there will be massive amounts of surplus generation during the summer months and would need 9.6 million megawatt-hours of energy storage. Achieving 100% would require 36.3 …
The US has highest maternal death rate in the developed world. Many US hospitals are not following the best practices for the delivery of babies. Thousands of women suffer life-altering injuries or die during childbirth because US hospitals and medical workers skip safety practices that are known to prevent problems. Doctors and nurses should be …
Researchers found at 26 garment factories in India that temperature was over 85 degrees inside the factory that for every extra degree it got hotter, productivity went down by 3% and profits went down by 2.2%. LEDs reduced the temperature on the factory floor by over 4 degrees. The increased profits covered the cost of …