Danielle Morrill describes how Tumblr could have sold for $3 billion instead of the $1.1 billion deal with Yahoo. Tumblr claims 120 million+ daily impressions on Tumblr Radar, which equals 3.6 Billion+ monthly impressions. Assuming $10 – 20 RPM (revenue per thousand impressions), which is within the normal range for premium brand advertising, the total …
Chris Hadfield is a Canadian astronaut who was the first Canadian to walk in space. Hadfield has flown two space shuttle missions, STS-74 in 1995 and STS-100 in 2001, and served as capsule communicator for both Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) expeditions. On 19 December 2012, Hadfield launched in the Soyuz TMA-07M flight …
Professor Steve Hsu has given a Google Tech Talk on human intelligence (presentation in 2011). Steve has worked with the BGI(Beijing Genomics Institute). BGI has been sequencing over 2000 people with an IQ over 160 and 4000 people with an average IQ distribution (controls). The project is trying to determine the exact genetic components of …
Problem: Global annual production of municipal solid waste (MSW) is expected to grow from 1.3 billion tonnes today to 9.8 billion tonnes in 2050. That waste represents 4-5 billion barrels of oil, about 2/3 of the oil the United States uses annually. Solution: Imagine a box that you put on a landfill where you pump …
Nature – Researchers in Germany have claimed a breakthrough: a material that can act as a superconductor — transmit electricity with zero resistance — at room temperature and above. Pablo Esquinazi and his colleagues at the University of Leipzig report that flakes of humble graphite soaked in water seem to continue superconducting at temperatures of …
The Economist magazine examines the question – Is the age of the growth miracle at an end? Harvard economist Dani Rodrik, in which he argued that the age of the “growth miracle” was over. Industrialisation, long the engine of economic development, is becoming less able to support catch-up growth, he suggested, thanks to the falling …
Eurekalert – By sequencing cancer-cell genomes, scientists have discovered vast numbers of genes that are mutated, deleted or copied in cancer cells. This treasure trove is a boon for researchers seeking new drug targets, but it is nearly impossible to test them all in a timely fashion. To help speed up the process, MIT researchers …
Wired – Darpa awarded a $6 million contract to Cubic Corporation’s defense division to develop the device, called the One Shot XG. According to Darpa’s solicitation for proposals, the new device is intended to be a “compact observation, measurement, and ballistic calculation system” that is mounted onto a sniper’s rifle or scope, allowing accurate shots …
Texas field production of crude oil is at 1.834 million barrels of oil per day in May, 2012. Texas production is at oil production levels last seen in 1991. There is a difference in how the EIA is calculating Texas field production versus the Texas railway commission tracking of crude oil production. The Texas railway …
Oil: The Next Revolution, The Unprecedented Upsurge of Oil Production Capacity and What it means for the World. (86 pages) The figure is an all oil liquids prediction (which includes crude oil, natural gas liquids, biofuels etc…). The natural endowment of the initial American shale play, Bakken/Three Forks (a tight oil formation) in North Dakota …
Smart Planet – Danish architects Frederik Agdrup and Nicholas Bjorndal of Eentileen used just a computer, a printer (computerized milling) and 820 sheets of plywood to build a 125 square meter (1,345 square foot) home in four weeks. Named Villa Asserbo, the home is the pilot project of Eentileen’s Print a House project. The designers …