A major national study examining British men’s attitudes to their appearance reveals that over four in five (80.7%) men regularly engage in conversation about one another’s body and that most are unhappy with their muscularity. The study found that men talk most about their unhappiness with their stomach, referred to most commonly as their beer …
The two physics stories that dominated the news in 2011 were questions rather than solid scientific results, namely “Do neutrinos travel faster than light?” and “Has the Higgs boson been found?”. However, there have also been some fantastic bona fide research discoveries over the last 12 months, which made it difficult to decide on the …
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory recently validated greater than 41 percent efficiency at a concentration of 1,000 suns for tiny cells made by Semprius — one of the highest efficiencies recorded at this concentration. Semprius’ triple-junction cells are made of gallium arsenide. Low-cost lenses concentrate the sun light onto the tiny …
Technology Review – Paul G. Allen, who cofounded Microsoft in 1975, is a philanthropist and chairman of Vulcan, which invests in an array of technology, aerospace, entertainment, and sports businesses. Mark Greaves is a computer scientist who serves as Vulcan’s director for knowledge systems. Rather than the ever-accelerating advancement predicted by Kurzweil, we believe that …
I predict that Tiger Woods will regain number one golf ranking No PGA tour golfer won more than twice in 2011. The leading scoring average is 69.31 in 2011. Tiger was at 68.8 in 2009. Luke Donald has the top golf ranking of 10.7 and the number two has 7.7 Tiger had golf rankings of …
A Formula One tycoon has teamed up with the Dutch airline, KLM, in a project which is set to rival Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic. Space Expedition Curaçao is selling tickets at $95,000 each. this is half the Virgin Galacitc price and so far 35 people have signed up for missions which would leave from …
The International Energy Agency has an update for energy generation up to June 2011. The OECD (Western Europe, north america, japan, south korea) nuclear generation was down 2.1% for the first half of the year and was down 7.5% for June, 2011 versus June 2010. A problem for my world nuclear generation bets is that …
Schwarzenegger confesses to fathering baby with house staff member, but explains that child is destined to bring down SkyNet in 2031. (George Takei twitter) The Governator is now the inseminator. Schwarzenegger proves that he really is part of the Kennedy clan SNL’s Seth Meyers: Assuming Schwarzenegger had to come clean b/c there was a 10-year-old …
Alan Boyle at Cosmiclog (MSNBC) interviews Jaeyoung Park who is working at EMC2 Fusion (Bussard, Inertial Electrostatic Fusion) EMC2 Fusion has a $7.9 million Navy contract to test a plasma technology known as inertial electrostatic confinement fusion, also known as Polywell fusion. Some of the leading team members went on leave from Los Alamos National …
NASA has selected a mission to Saturn’s Moon for Discovery Program Development. The Titan Mare Explorer, or TiME, would perform the first direct inspection of an ocean environment beyond Earth by landing in, and floating on, a large methane-ethane sea on the cloudy, complex moon. The TiME capsule would launch in 2016 and reach Titan …
Pure Energy Systems reports that Andrea Rossi has stated that there are currently 105 E-Cat modules in continuous operation. Rossi claims these are modules that will be used in the one megawatt plant, and that he is personally constructing additional units every day. Andrea Rossi has announced that an E-Cat unit will be sent to …