Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Weird Science posted a response in our back in forth on future energy. Bruce at Weird Science has some fundamental inconsistencies in how he views the future which are problematic. Contradictions and Inconsistencies and Unjustified Criteria Weird Science talks about accepting fossil fuels for 70 years …
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Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. A small blood lab that fits into the pocket of a jacket can quickly analyze the risk of blood clots in legs prior to a long distance flight; a sensor wristband for measuring electric smog can warn pacemaker patients of life-threatening exposure: “Smart plastics” can …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Oocyte Cryopreservation is the freezing of a woman’s eggs for later artificial insemination inpregnation. A 2009 study showed 936 babies had been born from frozen eggs worldwide, with no increase in birth defects. It costs about $9,500 to freeze eggs. A private company may have an …
I looked at nuclear winter and city firestorms a few months ago I will summarize the case I made then in the next section. there is significant additions based on my further research and email exchanges that I had with Prof Alan Robock and Brian Toon who wrote the nuclear winter research. The Steps needed …
Ad Support : Business Success How to Make Money Executive Jobs Paid Surveys DARPA has 58 pages of specifications around what kind of flying car they want. * flying/driving range of 250 miles * measure no more than 30 feet long by 8.5′ wide and 9′ high * perform vertical take-off and landing * carry four …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software HPCwire covers unleashing the Memristor EEtimes covers the Nanoletters paper on two memristors being used to emulate neural learning HP claims memristor memory can handle up to 1,000,000 read/write cycles before degradation, compared to flash at 100,000 cycles. Memristors can be scaled down to single-digit nanometer …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Mike Treder had a piece about transhumanism and used a classic four box structure to analyze what might happen in the next 15-20 years If you can make the following substituation: new technology in place of transhumanism or science in place of transhumanism and have the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Carnival of Space 149 is at starry critters. This site provided: A spacecraft on a computer chip prototype should be launched this year. If this works it would open the door to cheap computer chip spacecraft that would act as sensors and monitors all over the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Here is the Noah Goodman interview. Dr. Goodman is a research scientist at the Computational Cognitive Science Group at MIT. The Computational Cognitive Science Group examines the computational abilities of the human brain. Dr. Goodman believes that artificial general intelligence may be only twenty years away. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software The candidate liver cancer biomarker is Golgi Protein-73 (GP73), which was first discovered in Dr. Fimmel’s lab in 1998. Subsequent studies have shown that the blood levels of GP73 are consistently higher in patients with liver cancer than in healthy individuals. In addition, levels were not …