Ouroboros continues writeups of the recently completed SENS 4 antiaging conference. Previous nextbigfuture coverage: Part 2 of 3 summary of Ouroboros SENS4 coverage The Seconds half of the SENS4 schedule with links to abstracts Part 1 of 3 summary of Ouroboros SENS4 coverage SENS4, Session 21: Tissue engineering Gabor Forgacs gave a very interesting talk …
United States presidents have thrown out the first pitch of the baseball season since President Taft. The path for Curt Schilling to throwing out the first pitch of the baseball season. 1. Enter and win the US Senate Race for Senator of Massachusetts Newsweek notices the advantages that Schilling would have in running for the …
An MIT team found that the calcium-silica-hydrate in cement isn’t really a crystal. It’s a hybrid that shares some characteristics with crystalline structures and some with the amorphous structure of frozen liquids, such as glass or ice. “Now that we have a validated molecular model, we can manipulate the chemical structure to design concrete for …
New Scientist magazine has a review of materials that are nearly as hard as or harder than diamond. Wurtzite or w-BN, which is comparable to a diamond-like form of carbon known as lonsdaleite. It had been made since the 1970s by using high pressure or explosive shock waves to squeeze h-BN, but had only been …
Researchers at the UK’s Birmingham University have recovered uranium from the radioactive waters of uranium mines using bacteria and inositol phosphate, a chemical parallel of a cheap waste material from plants. The same technology can also be used to clean up nuclear waste. Professor Lynne Macaskie Sunday presented the group’s work to the Society for …
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita predicted the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks that are scheduled for December 2009. The Wall Street Journal reports that UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said “UN.-led talks in Copenhagen in December to reach a global deal on cutting greenhouse gas emissions to avert climate change are in danger of …
Nextbigfuture previously looked at Bruce Bueno de Mesquita’s predictions on Iran and his method of prediction. Bruce is a famous math professor who uses a computerized game theory model to make accurate political predictions. More Predictions The COP-15 (copenhagen Dec 2009) climate talks in Copenhagen will fail. “The New Nostradamus article by Good Magazine Though …
Hook and loop fasteners made of spring steel have now been developed at the Institute of Metal Forming and Casting of the Technische Universitaet Muenchen. These fasteners are resistant to chemicals and can withstand a tensile load of up to 35 tonnes per square meter at temperatures as high as 800°C. It appears that there …
STAIf 2007- Mach-Lorentz Thruster (MLT)Applications presentation by Paul March. 1-G Space Drive One-G constant acceleration and deceleration space drive would mean Earth-to-moon in 4 hours, Earth to Mars in 2-5 days, Earth to Saturn in 8-9 days. If the Mach Effect is real [mass fluctations) and behaves as theorized (with some experimental confirmation) by James …
Forbes has a list of other US Legislation [besides Healthcare, climate change and finance regulatory reform. Appropriations: Aside from health care reform, this will be Congress’ main task between now and December, as the Senate has only approved four of the 12 appropriations bills. Defense spending: Perhaps the most contentious of the spending bills now …
From the Wall Street Journal: American and Chinese officials said all the right things during this summer’s inaugural round of their Strategic and Economic Dialogue. President Barack Obama pledged to “forge a path to the future that we seek for our children.” Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo wondered aloud whether America and China can “build …