John Mauldin has a free newsletter on financial information. Millenium Wave Securities. He discussed stem cell breakthroughs with ISCO (International Stem Cell Company) and Biotime ISCO can turn blood into Parthogenic stem cells into Organs 50 stem cell types (like blood cell types) can cover 95% of humanity and matching would prevent rejection. Eventually there …
At 5:52 PM EST March 25, 2012. James Cameron has reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench on a solo dive UPDATE – Cameron found small shrimp like creatures at the bottom and other details have been put together of the dive. His depth on arrival: 35,756 feet (10,898 meters)—a figure unattainable anywhere else in …
BBC News – A shortage of available organs means many die on waiting lists and those that get an organ must spend a lifetime on immunosuppressant drugs to avoid rejection. The idea is that using a patient’s own stem cells to grow new body parts avoids the whole issue of rejection as well as waiting …
IOwa State identified the behaviors of people who live a longer life 1. It takes a village (and a family, some money, and a care facility). You’ve got to have family, or community, or care facilities. And you also need economic support — the financial resources to last into very late life. 2. Individual characteristics. …
Vintage Space has the Carnival of Space 232 Top ten space trends for 2012 from 21st century waves 1. Wildcards and tipping points A few well-known wildcards – and potential tipping points — that face the U.S. and the world in 2012: a. A major recession in the Eurozone could trigger a global depression. b. …
Automobile air emissions are a well-recognized problem and have been subject to considerable regulation. An increasing concern for greenhouse gas emissions draws additional considerations to the externalities of personal vehicle travel. This paper provides estimates of the costs for automobile air emissions for 86 U.S. metropolitan areas based on county-specific external air emission morbidity, mortality, …
A guest post by Joseph Friedlander Professor John McCarthy, who died recently, had many innovative ideas. He was an original thinker with many surprising insights– and he had an idea for an amazing transportation system as well: We quote first in his own words from his site (which we hope will be maintained) at: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/future/skywires.html …
Thermoelectric materials are also currently used in the type of cooler bags that keep things cold without making use of their own cooling elements. These cooler bags are full of the elements Lead and Tellurium. Both of these substances are also toxic. “We want to replace them with inexpensive and readily available substances. Moreover, there …
The mayor of Burnaby, B.C., says he’s concerned about the development of a fusion reactor in his city as revealed in a CBC News report on October 3, 2011, and wants assurance the company involved has the proper licensing and oversight. Nuclear energy is prohibited in B.C., but that can change — although it would …
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute developed a new method for creating a layer of gold nanoparticles that measures only billionths of a meter thick. These self-assembling gold coatings with features measuring less than 10 nanometers could hold important implications for nanoelectronics manufacturing. This new discovery could offer new solutions for scaling down the features of …
n a report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, regenerative medicine is called the “next evolution of medical treatments.” The report says the field not only “holds the realistic promise of regenerating damaged tissues and organs in the living body” but “empowers scientists to grow tissues and organs in the laboratory and …