Jamais Cascio does not like the Singularity University and suggests a Futurist liberal arts program. No corporate executive will pay $25,000 for future social studies/liberal arts crash course with a future twist. The target is Singularity executive MBA and advanced tech business brainstorming. People who have money or super techie geeks who have money or …
A presentation by Penn West, a Senior Canadian Oil Company, on its oil drilling plans. [34 pages] They are making a significant allocation to enhanced oil recovery. Horizontal multi-stage fracturing can be 44% of the cost of conventional oil drilling approaches for certain oil formations. Horizontal multi-stage fracturing should draw billions of barrels of oil …
Ouroboros has extensive coverage of The Molecular Genetics of Aging conference. The conference had ten sessions:Session I: Genetics of simple organisms Presenters covered research into worms, yeast, flies and more. Session IIa: Genome stability, damage & repair -Christian Beauséjour argued that mice do not clear DNA-damaged cells-Philipp Oberdoerffer (from David Sinclair’s lab) asked: What drives …
Sandia National Laboratory led by Sandia researcher Peter Van Blarigan that has been testing physical components of free-piston engines which could be 50% efficient. This is about twice as good as current gas combustion engines and about as efficient as fuel cells. Fuel cells are too expensive. He is assembling a complete free-piston engine prototype, …
September 25th, China successfully launched Shenzhou 7 for their first space walk and the first module of a space station. The Shenzhou 7 spacecraft blasted off atop a Long March 2F rocket shortly after 9pm (2300 AEST) under clear night skies in northwestern China. The spacewalk by one of the astronauts is expected to take …
Advanced Cell Technology is the company behind the new stem cell blood breakthrough which could supply unlimited disease free blood. The company is only up 50% to a valuation of 6.7 million. Biotime is a related company Robert Lanza is the chief scientist behind Advanced Cell Technology and was featured in Discover Magazine. He is …
Some people worry that if oil supplies were to radically drop that there would not be enough fuel to build non-fossil fuel replacement. They then promote the use of draft animals and small windmills. This article will show that there is enough oil and fuels to supply a transition build and that even if supplies …
Scientists have identified biomarkers that indicate telomere shortening. CRAMP, stathmin, EF-1α, and chitinase are proteins that they found to be secreted from telomere-dysfunctional bone-marrow cells of late generation telomerase knockout mice. Their study, which was published this week in PNAS, showed an increase in expression of these markers in the blood of aging and geriatric …
Half of the people do not respond to current cholesterol drugs, but one dose of a new RNAi treatment lowers LDL cholesterol by 60% in mice and monkeys. The Alnylam Pharmaceuticals drug might one day provide another option for patients who are resistant to existing cholesterol-lowering drugs due to genetic factors, or it might also …
From MIT Technology Review, a Canadian company, Carbon Sense Solutions (CSS), says that its curing process can store 60 tons of carbon dioxide inside 1,000 tons of precast concrete products, such as concrete blocks, while saving energy. CSS has plans for a 5000 ton per day plant by 2011 and increasing 25,000 tons per day …
Human trials starting for Zheng Cui’s LIFT ‘cancer cure’ H/T to Alfin For the upcoming study, the researchers are currently recruiting 500 local potential donors who are 50 years old or younger and in good health to have their blood tested. Of those, 100 volunteers with high cancer-killing activity will be asked to donate white …