Participated in a podcast on the Speculist about the Future of Fit and Fat

Sunday night Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon hosted a panel on The Future of of Fit (and Fat). The panelists were PJ Manney, Brian Wang, and fitness expert and entrepreneur Shawn Phillips. Shawn Phillips is an author, entrepreneur, and expert in the area of performance training and nutrition. He created the Full Strength® Premium Nutrition …

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Molecular Genetics of Aging conference september 24-28, 2008

The fourth meeting on the Molecular Genetics of Aging is being organized by Steven Austad, University of Texas Health Science Center; Judith Campisi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Buck Institute for Age Research and David Sinclair, Harvard Medical School Judith Campisi is working on one of the major SENS life extension projects to deal with too …

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Carnival of Space Week 60

Carnival of Space week 60 is up at slacker astronomy This site submitted an article with a preview of the space elevator and lunar lander games. The article heavily focused on the space elevator. Centauri Dreams talks about really big and slow space colonization ships (multi-generational Arks with 10 thousand year travel times). There is …

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Approximate visible light cloak simulated and practical device within reach

Silicon photonic crystal has holes of the right sizes and waveguides In computer simulations, the researchers have demonstrated an approximate cloaking effect created by concentric rings of silicon photonic crystals. The mathematical proof brings scientists a step closer to a practical solution for optical cloaking. “This is much more than a theoretical exercise,” said Harley …

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North Dakota Bakken oil increasing 5000-7000 barrels per day each month, Saskatchewan’s Bakken oil increasing too

The state (North Dakota’s) Industrial Commission reports that North Dakota oil wells pumped an average of 150,578 barrels a day in April. The previous high of 147,774 barrels a day was set in August 1984. North Dakota reported 5700 more barrels of oil per day in March, 2008 March production was 143738 bopd versus February …

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Blog Economics

Chitika, an ad network, had a study of the revenues of the top 50,000 blogs for 2006 Chitika made the assumption that an estimate of total advertising revenues for a blog would be 3 times as much as the Chitika revenue for the blog. Using revenue trends and statistics from a representativesample for the 12000+ …

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Obama’s plan to tax the rich won’t work

Businessweek discusses Obama’s plan to increase the marginal tax rate back to the level under Bill Clinton and before the Bush tax cuts Of the 149 million households filing federal income taxes for 2006, some 3% reported income between $200,000 and $500,000; fewer than 1% claimed income above half a million dollars. The Bush administration …

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