The technique has already been used to print repairs into real animal bones By harnessing the capabilities of Solid-Freeform Fabrication (SFF) – also known as Rapid Prototyping (RP) – Cornel researchers can create living tissue of arbitrary 3D shapes directly from computer-aided design (CAD) data. The “printing ink” is a cell-seeded alginate hydrogel. The alginate …
Ideas for Space Industrialization in the spirit of G. Harry Stine’s The Third Industrial Revolution By Joseph Friedlander Space Products And Potential Earthly Markets. The original Space Age (say 1958-68 and to a lesser degree all the way to 1975) was not merely the successor to the Atomic Age (immediate post WW2 say 1945-57) but …
What is the Mach Effect thruster pushing on? What is the relative velocity of the Far-Off Active Mass? On Earth, if you drive a car you’re pushing on the ground to go faster, and it’s very efficient, but it’s not over-unity because the ground is at a set reference velocity and doesn’t move to help …
Solar array: The rectangles on this wafer are solar cells made of multiple semiconductor materials. Credit: Solar Junction MIT Technology Review – A startup called Solar Junction says its pilot manufacturing plant is producing solar cells units that are more efficient than the best ones on the market today. The advance, based on new semiconductor …
What makes a nation, a people, a lifestyle productive of wealth? And what would living that way feel like? By Joseph Friedlander Note: This is a very long article Brian Wang has written extensively on the concept of the Mundane Singularity (Singularity lite) in analogy to beverages, which does not include the full Eric Drexler-like …
ACS Nano – Toward Chemical Propulsion: Synthesis of ROMP-Propelled Nanocars The synthesis and ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) activity of two nanocars functionalized with an olefin metathesis catalyst is reported. The nanocars were attached to a Hoveyda−Grubbs first- or second-generation metathesis catalyst via a benzylidene moiety. The catalytic activity of these nanocars toward ROMP of 1,5-cyclooctadiene …
Gizmag – Move turns Killzone 3 from a fantastic first-person shooter to the most immersive, visceral experience you’ll find on a console today. Guardian UK – Killzone 3 added some well thought-out tweaks to the control system, such as twisting to reload and a melee attack which is launched with a stabbing motion. Online, Killzone …
Der Spiegel discusses how China would like to make the yuan one of the world’s anchor currencies, forcing other countries to maintain reserves of Chinese money and providing significant advantages for Beijing. Yet the country cannot continue to keep the value of its currency artificially low if it hopes to become the world’s dominant economic …
James Woodward’s latest paper will be published in Foundations of Physics later this year. It’s about how the Mach Effect can be applied to the Warp Drive and Stargate problem. It covers some new and interesting ground on how to make warp drives and stargates using the M-E’s wormhole and higher terms to generate the …
Minutes of the Fed’s policy-setting meeting Jan. 25-26 showed central bank officials expect U.S. gross domestic product to increase between 3.4% and 3.9% this year. That compares with a November 2010 prediction the economy would expand between 3.0% and 3.6% in 2011. Though the economy looks a bit stronger, central bank officials expect the unemployment …
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