US Crude oil production reached a new peak since Reagan was President with 8.428 million barrels per day of crude oil and 13.2 million barrels per day of all oil liquids. North Dakota production in March, 2014 was 977000 barrels per day. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator …
Frederik George Pohl was an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy-five years — from his first published work, the 1937 poem “Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna”, through the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led and articles and essays published in 2012. From about 1959 until 1969, …
Elon Musk tweeted two days ago tha Spacex has figured out how to design rocket parts just with hand movements. Spacex will post a video of the process next week. They then use 3d printing to make the parts. The director of the Iron Man movie Jon Favreau tweeted Musk asking: “Like in Iron Man?” …
The AWARE series of DARPA multiple cameras show that optics and electronic sampling provide no barrier to camera information capacity. They already have 10 gigapixels and will soon have 50 gigapixels. There is a technical plan to achieve petapixel imaging (a million gigapixels). Capacity is ultimately limited by photon flux and atmospheric turbulence. There is …
Dwave’s 512 qubit system can speedup the solution of Google’s machine learning algorithms by 50,000 times in 25% of the problem cases. This could make it the fastest system for solving Google’s problems. Google and Dwave have been working on sparse coding, deep learning and unattended machine learning with Dwave’s quantum computer helping to get …
Researchers at the Center for Turbulence Research set a new record in supercomputing, harnessing a million computing cores to model supersonic jet noise. Work was performed on the newly installed Sequoia IBM Bluegene/Q system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. Stanford Engineering’s Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) has set a new record in computational science by …
USA Today – The American Council on Education, a non-profit organization that represents most of the nation’s college and university presidents, is preparing to weigh in on massive open online courses — MOOCs, for short — a new way of teaching and learning that has taken higher education by storm in recent months. A stamp …
A new study by researchers at MIT and Rice University has shown that even lighter materials may be more capable and effective than Kevlar. The key is to use composites made of two or more materials whose stiffness and flexibility are structured in very specific ways — such as in alternating layers just a few …
MIT.edu – in the event that a giant asteroid is headed toward Earth, you’d better hope that it’s blindingly white. A pale asteroid would reflect sunlight — and over time, this bouncing of photons off its surface could create enough of a force to push the asteroid off its course. How might one encourage such …
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner Blue Origin has successfully fired the thrust chamber assembly for its new 100,000 pound thrust BE-3 liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen rocket engine. As part of Blue’s Reusable Booster System (RBS), the engines are designed eventually to launch the biconic-shaped Space Vehicle the company is developing. Blue Origin is a …
A survey of American adults indicates that the biggest health concerns for American kids are Inactivity (39%) Obesity (38%) Smoking (34%) Drug abuse (33%) Bullying (29%) Stress (27%) Alcohol abuse (23%) Teen pregnancy (23%) Internet safety (22%) Child abuse and neglect (20%) If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator …