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Jeffrey Sachs steps away from the Kool-Aid
Corrente —
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Actually, Google shows Sachs has been stepping away from bullshit like this * for some time. But its always nice to read material like this in Scientific American : The Obama administration has not put forward one coherent plan as a detailed policy proposal . Every major piece of public policy has been turned ...4 hours ago -
It’s Just Cool: Switchblade Flying Motorcycle
Toolmonger: The Week In Tools —
Authority: 560
Just when you thought it was safe to take the old flying car out for a spin, Samson Motorworks brings out its flying motorcycle, the Switchblade™ Multi Mode Vehicle (MMV). I recently saw this gem in the Scientific American newsletter. DIY kits should be available in 2011 after the flight testing program is ...5 hours ago -
How We Will Die In The Future: Homemade Plane-Bikes
The Awl —
Authority: 756
Californian engineering firm Samson Motorworks is developing a motorcycle that will transform into a mini two-seater airplane: “The company is building a prototype of its Switchblade Multi Mode Vehicle, or flying motorcycle, and hopes to sell a $60,000 do-it-yourself kit as early as 2011. (Engine and avionics are ...1 day ago -
Totally Bogus?
New Hampshire Public Radio —
Authority: 133
Play Totally Bogus with the editor of Scientific American.1 day ago -
Hybrid Solar Panels Combine Photovoltaics with Thermoelectricity
Innovation Toronto —
Authority: 140
Columbia University and N.Y. engineering firm Weidlinger Associates are developing a layered approach that will draw electricity from the sun’s energy in multiple ways Tar and shingles are hardly environmentally friendly materials, so the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) hopes to soon help homeowners and businesses ...1 week ago -
Are Engines the Future of Solar Power?
Innovation Toronto —
Authority: 140
Image by Synthesis Studios via Flickr Stirling engines might be the best way to harvest the power provided by the sun Nearly 200 years after their invention, and decades after first being proposed as a method of harnessing solar energy, 60 sun-powered Stirling engines are about to begin generating ...1 week ago -
Combating climate change by observing the Earth
Innovation Toronto —
Authority: 140
Image via Wikipedia As part of the U.S. charm offensive at the recent Copenhagen summit on climate change , a roughly one meter-diameter orb helped display a decade’s worth of climate data collected by NASA satellites. “This is the golden age,” NASA’s Jack Kaye told me. As associate research director ...1 week ago -
The Long Shot
Innovation Toronto —
Authority: 140
Image via Wikipedia Two rival scientific teams are locked in a high-stakes race to discover other Earth-like worlds —and forever change our own. From the Chilean seaside town of La Serena, it’s a journey of 80 kilometers to the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), through the Elqui River ...1 week ago -
Nano-Risks: A Big Need for a Little Testing
Innovation Toronto —
Authority: 140
Image via Wikipedia The EPA must act swiftly to evaluate the possible health risks of nanotechnology A decade ago the great worry about nanotechnology was that it could quite literally destroy the planet. As Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy warned in his essay “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us,” ...1 week ago -
Woo Woo is a Step Ahead of (Bad) Science
Deepak Chopra - Official Website —
Authority: 136
It used to annoy me to be called the king of woo woo. For those who aren’t familiar with the term, “woo woo” is a derogatory reference to almost any form of unconventional thinking, aimed by professional skeptics who are self-appointed vigilantes dedicated to the suppression of curiosity. I get labeled much ...1 week ago -
Christopher Monckton on Scientific American’s Defense of Climate Alarmism
The Beacon —
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In an editorial article in its December 2009 issue, “Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense,” the popular-science magazine Scientific American claims that the Climategate revelations and the findings from an increasing number of scientists who question climate alarmism are ignorant, irrational and ...1 week ago -
Herpes
Health 2 u —
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Herpes simplex Would you believe herpes gladiotorum? No, it is not another form of herpes. It is the same herpes simplex that may give you a cold sore or worse, plague you with painful genital herpes. Apparently herpes is so common among wrestlers, they have their own name for it. This is because of the unclothed, ...2 weeks ago -
Scientific American - Kool-Aid Psychology: Realism versus Optimism
Integral Options Cafe —
Authority: 450
Theres much to like in the positive psychology movement, but its rejection of traditional therapeutic work is not one of them. I have had some serious issues with their whole ethos of focusing only on the positive, and Ive mentioned that here before. In this article, Michael Shermer (of The Skeptic) riffs on Barbara ...2 weeks ago -
Konarka’s Power Plastic Turns Buildings into Power Plants
Innovation Toronto —
Authority: 140
Solar energy innovator Konarka is out to prove that you can have your sustainable cake and eat it, too. The Massachusetts-based company has launched a pilot project that will integrate its proprietary Power Plastic solar panels into the non-loadbearing exterior wall of a building, called a curtain wall. Solar ...2 weeks ago -
Unusual deep sea species
The Art of Science —
Authority: 127
More scientific art. I’m a sucker for pretty pictures and photographs of bizarre animals. Compiled by Scientific American : More than 340 scientists from around the world have been working over the past nine years to complete the Census of Marine Life , a project that has sent out dozens of expeditions to ...3 weeks ago -
Emit fo worra.*
Communion Of Dreams —
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Nice – here’s another show for “ The Explosions Channel “: Jim Downey (Via MeFi . *Apologies to Sean Carroll. )3 weeks ago -
On a Roll: Autonomous Navigation Lasers and Robotics Push “Smart” Wheelchair Technology to the Cutting Edge
Innovation Toronto —
Authority: 140
Image via Wikipedia One of the latest attempts to build a commercially viable smart wheelchair is leveraging lessons learned from the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge Engineers can build autonomous vehicles capable of cruising city streets without the aid of a human driver, as demonstrated two years ago in ...3 weeks ago -
Worst Case Scenarios
NEWS, VIEWS & SERENDIPITY —
Authority: 124
"If the worst-case scenario played itself out - not the potential or likely, but the worst - would that be acceptable?"This is the advise that James M. Wilson offers clinical scientists. This comes from experience of the saddest kind. In 1999, James M. Wilson was the head of the institute that ran a gene therapy ...3 weeks ago -
Setting Boundaries: 10 Guidelines to Save Earth
Innovation Toronto —
Authority: 140
Image via Wikipedia Scientists propose a set of safe limits for human impacts on Earth The scale of humanity’s impact on the globe is becoming ever more apparent: we have wiped out species at a rate to rival great extinction events of all geologic time as well as contributing to a rapidly acidifying ocean, ...3 weeks ago -
Zoning for Oceans: Balancing Our Competing Needs in the Seas
Innovation Toronto —
Authority: 140
Image via Wikipedia The time when we could do anything we want anywhere we want in the oceans is over For decades the seas off U.S. shores have been roiled by controversies over where to drill for oil, how to reel in overfishing , and whom to blame for toxic streams of continental runoff. A failure to manage ...3 weeks ago
