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Above Average Jane (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
from the inbox: Today, Pennsylvania Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-8th District) joined local business owners to announce the expansion of Y-Carbon, Inc. to Bucks County . The CEO of Y-Carbon, James Horan, joined Congressman Murphy to announce a $150,000 Recovery Act grant for the company, and how the green, high-tech business plans to create jobs in Bristol . The grant comes as part of over $18 million...
Foresight Institute Nanodot (Free subscription) | 49 minutes ago
There’s an interesting debate between Bryan Caplan and Robin Hanson on their respective blogs. Caplan writes: … Robin didn’t care about biological survival. He didn’t need his brain implanted in a cloned body. He just wanted his neurons preserved well enough to “upload himself” into a computer. To my mind, it was ridiculously easy to prove that [...]
Foresight Institute Nanodot (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
(Atomic Age, that is.) From the University of Chicago Library site: On December 2, 1942, scientists at the University of Chicago produced the world’s first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in a nuclear pile constructed in a squash court beneath the West Stands of Stagg Field, the University’s athletic stadium. This experiment, crucial to the control of [...]
Foresight Institute Nanodot (Free subscription) | yesterday
IEEE Spectrum: Radios With Micromachined Resonators. It’s likely that better mechanical components, and the cognitive-radio techniques they enable, will usher in the next wave of mobile telephony by giving our cellphones access to much more spectrum. These phones will operate in multiple bands, provide greater data throughput, and minimize if not eliminate the need for wireless [...]
Technical Guidance (Free subscription) | yesterday
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The Web Scene (Free subscription) | yesterday
University of Twente scientists in the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, and from the FOM Foundation, have successfully transferred magnetic information directly into a semiconductor at room temperature. The researchers say that exchanging information at room temperature is a major step toward developing spintronics, a new, more energy efficient form of electronics. In magnetic materials, the [...]...
advanced nanotechnology (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Science Fiction author and blogger Charlie Stross has an article about the myth of the starship Yes, I think human interstellar exploration (and yes, maybe even colonization) might be possible, after a fashion. But to get there, we're going to have to master at least two entire technological fields that don't yet exist, even before we start trying to blast compact disc sized machines up to relativistic...
Foresight Institute Nanodot (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
The Royal society has a new website making freely available a selection of classic papers from the history of science. (h/t Luboš Motl’s The Reference Frame): I am just looking at an Isaac Newton’s letter about light and colors sent to the editor of Cambridge University Press in February 1671/72. It describes some Newton’s basic [...]
The Writing Spectacle II (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Yes, I am well aware that there's still one more day to NaNo (or to be more precise, around 17 hrs). I'm also aware I fell 5211 words short of the 50K goal. However, I'm stopping short and I've got a very good reason for it. I finished the story yesterday. Well, the first draft of the story anyway. I've got a lot of work to do before this book is finished. Still, I'm pretty proud of my accomplishments...
advanced nanotechnology (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Cell mates: This microfluidics chip (top) contains 1,536 minute wells, each designed to force contact between two fluorescently labeled cells. An immune cell and a tumor cell are forced into contact inside a single well of a microfluidics chip (bottom). The setup allows researchers to identify, isolate, and study immune cells with particularly potent anticancer characteristics. Credit: COCHISE Project...
Foresight Institute Nanodot (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
(or a little physics about climate change. Or at least a few clarifications about some of the points being raised.) In the wake of Climategate, a wide variety of mistakes and misapprehensions are being circulated on the Internet (as if that weren’t happening before). For example, in this article from the Telegraph: Phil Jones, the 57-year-old director of [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
MINA, Saudi Arabia — Five people died from swine flu during the hajj, Saudi Arabia said Sunday, a relatively small number considering the event is the largest annual gathering in the world and is seen as an ideal incubator for the virus. But some experts warned the true extent of the virus will not be known until pilgrims return to their home countries around the world. Speaking on the final...
The Speculist (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon begin a two-part series on nanotechnology. In Part 1, they will explore the origin of the concept of nanotechnology and will talk through the basic concepts as outlined in K. Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation....
Renewable Energy Stocks (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Solar Stock news -Leading Solar Cell Manufacturer Expands Production with SOLARIS SOLARIS – Large Order for Oerlikon Systems BALZERS, Liechtenstein---A leading European crystalline solar cell manufacturer places for the first time a large order for multiple SOLARIS systems. The SOLARIS, which offers various advantages with its revolutionary coating technology was introduced to the market just...
Laser Printer Mall .co.cc (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
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