The heart of the planned ballistic missile Ohio Replacement (OR) program will be built around a drive that will not need to be refueled for the 50-year life of the boats and cuts out potentially noisy direct mechanical connection to the drive train. In other words, the Navy’s next-gen subs could be almost silent, and …
Los Alamos research on magneto-resistance in thin films is reported in Arxiv. We report magneto-transport studies of topological insulator Bi2Te3 thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition. A non-saturating linear-like magneto-resistance (MR) is observed at low temperatures in the magnetic field range from a few Tesla up to 60 Tesla. We demonstrate that the strong …
A talk by Randal Koene covers the motivation for human technological augmentation and reasons to go beyond biological life extension * Life-extension in biology may increase the fragility of our species & civilization… More people? – Resources. Less births? – Fewer novel perspectives. Expansion? – Environmental limitation. * Biological life-extension within the same evolutionary niche …
Psy’s Gangnam style video has made it to the one billion view mark on Youtube. Lipdubs, spoofs and commentaries of Gangnam Style are seen an estimated 20 million times a day. Here is another parody – NASA Johnson style If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks …
Accultured – at long last, George Lucas has decided to get out of the moviemaking business. He’s selling out Lucasfilm, including all of its properties and moneymaking storylines, to the Mouse. This is a good thing. Maybe even a great thing. Disney is a bloodless corporate behemoth. But at least they will try to hire …