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May 14, 2013
- Amazon Is Developing Smartphone With 3-D Screen
  
  Amazon.com Inc. is developing a high-end smartphone featuring a screen that allows for three-dimensional images without glasse
- First biological evidence of a supernova
  
  Researchers find hints of supernova iron in bacteria microfossils
- State Department Demands Takedown Of 3D-Printable Gun Files For Possible Export Control Violations
  
  The battle for control of dangerous digital shapes may have just begun.
- 78,000 sign up for one-way mission to Mars in first two weeks
  
  Mars One says it has received applications from more than 78,000 people in more than 120 countries for the Mars One astronaut selection program, in hopes of becoming a Mars settler in 2023.
- Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist on Creating the Interplanetary Internet
  
  Working with NASA and JPL, Cerf has helped develop a new set of protocols that can stand up to the unique environment of space, where orbital mechanics and the speed of light make traditional networking extremely difficult.
- Ender’s Game — trailer
  
  Based on the best-selling, award winning science-fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, ENDER’S GAME is an epic adventure starring Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, with Abigail Breslin and Harrison Ford.
- Boosting 'cellular garbage disposal' can delay the aging process, UCLA biologists report
  
  UCLA life scientists have identified a gene previously implicated in Parkinson’s disease that can delay the onset of aging and extend the healthy life span of fruit flies. The research, they say, could have important implications for aging and disease
- A ‘shockingly bright’ gamma-ray burst
  
  A record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a galaxy about 3.6 billion light-years away has wowed astronomers around the world — the highest-energy light ever detected from such an event.
- Chris Hadfield: starman falls to Earth as Soyuz returns from space station
  
  Canadian astronaut who performed Bowie hit Space Oddity as orbital swangsong lands safely with two other crew
- Sun uncorks double-barreled blast
  
  As the solar cycle of sunspot activity reaches its peak, the sun's activity is expected to increase, seen in some recent outbursts.
- The Global Villages Network
  
  Resource page on Global Villages, aggregated by our guest this week, Franz Nahrada
May 7, 2013
- Ray Harryhausen, special effects pioneer, dies at 92
  
  Ray Harryhausen, whose dazzling and innovative visual effects work on fantasy adventure films like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958) and Jason and the Argonauts (1963) augured the explosion of effects-driven cinema over the last 30 years, died in London
- Giants of Industry Converge on the 2013 WIRED Business Conference
  
  Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on what it takes to turn around an internet giant. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs on building a world where everything is connected. Twitter and Medium cofounder Evan Williams on the future of publishing, communication. Free Stream!
- High Level UFO Revelation
  
  Paul Hellyer, former Minister of Defense of Canada who reveals in official testimony about the reality of UFO's the organizations that control the Earth. Awesome revelations to formally come forth now from a very high ranking former government official.
- Viber morphs into full-blown Skype rival by releasing desktop app
  
  Until now, Viber has been a mobile-only play that sits somewhere in between Skype and WhatsApp. Now it’s on the desktop too, and the different platform versions are very tightly integrated
- Does Google Glass Violate Community Standards?
  
  Google Glass is redrawing social boundaries. And society is so worried about its implications, that two communities have taken steps designed to keep Glass in its place
- Mechanical energy harvester replaces small batteries
  
  MicroGen has developed a “piezo-MEMS” (piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems) device that gathers ambient vibrations and converts them into electrical energy.
- Towards a quantum internet
  
  First detection of the spin of a single atom using a combined optical and electrical approach
- Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years
  
  A quantum internet capable of sending perfectly secure messages has been running at Los Alamos National Labs for the last two and a half years, say researchers
- Bringing people back from the dead
  
  A doctor says people can be revived several hours after they have seemingly died, BBC News reports. Should this change the way we think about death?
- How to create a glowing plant- Natural lighting with no electricity or CO2 (or radioactive elements)
  
  Now you can your own glowing plant at home, using synthetic biology and computer software.
- Potential diabetes breakthrough
  
  Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) have discovered a hormone that holds promise for a dramatically more effective treatment of type 2 diabetes, a metabolic illness afflicting an estimated 26 million Americans.
- A noninvasive avenue for Parkinson's disease gene therapy
  
  a new gene therapy approach that may one day stop Parkinson's disease (PD) in its tracks,
- Massive Star Factory Churned in Universe's Youth
  
  Galaxy HFLS3, 12.8 billion light-years from Earth, is producing the equivalent of nearly 3,000 Suns per year, a rate more than 2,000 times that of our own Milky Way.
- How haptics can enhance bionic eyes
  
  Using haptics to improve outcomes for people given visual prosthetics
- 3D-printed ‘bionic’ ear melds electronics and biology
  
  Scientists at Princeton University have used a 3D printer to create a functional ear that can “hear” radio frequencies up to microwave frequencies.
- Bug’s eye inspires hemispherical digital camera
  
  Camera with 'many small eyes on one big eye' delivers unmatched field of view
- Memory implants
  
  A maverick neuroscientist believes he has deciphered the code by which the brain forms long-term memories
- XPrize After Earth challenge
  
  The XPrize Foundation has teamed up with Sony Pictures Entertainment and Overbrook Entertainment to launch a robotics competition celebrating the release of After Earth, in theaters May 31.
- Subcellular magnetic imaging of living cells
  
  Magnetic field measurement techniques have long enabled scientists to probe the internal structure of biological and material samples.
- New research could let vehicles, robots collaborate with humans
  
  Everything around us is getting smarter. Researchers are developing systems that can analyze people’s needs to determine the best way to achieve their goals.
- Google’s self-driving car gathers nearly 1 GB/sec
  
  “Google’s self-driving car gathers 750 megabytes of sensor data per SECOND!
- Lars Ling - our Guest today who is a Swedish expert on Clean Tech
  
  Internationally, Sweden is regarded as being at the forefront of research and development into green technology and work towards achieving a sustainable environment.
April 30, 2013
- Apple wows market with record $17bn bond deal
  
  Apple Inc wowed the debt markets on Tuesday with the largest non-bank bond deal in history, offering a whopping $17 billion for sale as the U.S. computer giant switches strategy to placate restless shareholders.
- SpaceShipTwo Completes Its First Rocket-Powered Flight
  
  Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo went supersonic over the Mojave desert during its first powered flight this morning, a major milestone for the company’s plans for commercial suborbital flights.
- Microsoft could make 3D Skype calls a reality with new meeting tech
  
  A 3D telepresence technology that started life as a Microsoft research project may soon become an official product
- Google teams up with Fandango, SoundCloud, Songza and more to integrate app activity into search
  
  Google has announced the integration of app activities into Google search, with early launch partners that include Deezer, Fandango, Flixster, Slacker Radio, Songza, SoundCloud and TuneIn.
- The Very First Website Returns to the Web
  
  CERN has brought back the very first website back to life at its original URL.
- 4K TV Will Leave the Film Biz Reeling
  
  Cinema tech better innovate fast to keep up with picture quality in the living room
- How smart are your clothes?
  
  taking a closer look at the next quantum leap in textile design: computerized fabrics that change their colour and their shape in response to movement.
- Discovery yields supertough, strong nanofibers
  
  University of Nebraska-Lincoln materials engineers have developed a structural nanofiber that is both strong and tough, a discovery that could transform everything from airplanes and bridges to body armor and bicycles.
- Mars One starts its search for the first humans on Mars
  
  NEW YORK, Monday, 22nd April 2013 - Mars One is happy to announce the launch of its astronaut selection program today. The search has begun for the first humans to set foot on Mars and make it their home.
- The Starship Century Symposium
  
  Is this the century we begin to build starships? Why go to the Stars? Can we? Should We?
- NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites
  
  Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space Sunday aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia.
- Brain Computer Interfaces Inch Closer to Mainstream
  
  Soon, we might interact with our smartphones and computers simply by using our minds.
- Stem Cell Transplant Restores Memory, Learning in Mice
  
  For the first time, human embryonic stem cells have been transformed into nerve cells that helped mice regain the ability to learn and remember.
- E-tattoo monitors brainwaves and baby bump
  
  An electronic patch can analyse complex brainwaves and listen in on a fetus’s heart
- 3D printer makes tiniest human liver ever
  
  Lab-grown livers have come a step closer to reality thanks to a 3D printer loaded with cells
April 23, 2013
- Boston police chief: facial recognition tech didn’t help find bombing suspects
  
  Amid a huge volume of digital evidence, one agent watched same video 400 times.
- Google Fiber—On the Silicon Prairie, the Silicon Hills, and now the Silicon Slopes
  
  This week the Google Fiber team is in Provo, Utah, where Mayor John Curtis just announced that we intend to make Provo their third Google Fiber City.
- Google's Fiber Takeover Plan Expands: Will Kill Cable & Carriers
  
  "Google Fiber is not a test, it's a takeover plan.”
- NASA And MIT Mission Will Search For Habitable Planets
  
  They’ll be widening by a huge order of magnitude the search for planets outside our solar system.
- Astronomers anticipate 100 billion Earth-like planets
  
  University of Auckland researchers have proposed a new method for finding Earth-like planets in our galaxy and they anticipate that the number will be on the order of 100 billion.
- NASA's Kepler Discovers Its Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Planets to Date
  
  NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone,"
- Google Ventures Launches Glass Collective With Andreessen, Kleiner Perkins, To Fund Google Glass Startups
  
  The three firms hope to fund a community of developers to make Google Glass the next major computing platform.
- The Digital Public Library of America Launches This Week, Opening Up Knowledge for All
  
  A group of top American libraries and academic institutions launched a new centralized research resource today, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), making millions of resources (books, images, audiovisual resources, etc.) available in digital fo
- How high-tech gadgets helped the Boston investigation
  
  From Surveillance cams to robots, this was the highest tech operation ever.
- Does Meditation Make You A Willpower Machine?
  
  Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills, including attention, focus, stress management, impulse control, and self-awareness.
- Sir Martin Rees: Six ways to infinity... and beyond
  
  The Astronomer Royal believes humanity's future lies in the stars. But, as he tells Paul Bignell, we will first have to change our ways
- Physicist Proposes New Way To Think About Intelligence
  
  A radical concept could revise theories addressing cognitive behavior.
- Heifer fuel: Turning animal byproducts into biodiesel
  
  North Star Biofuels, is about to start production of biodiesel at a new $15 million, 20,000-square-foot plant in Watsonville, Calif., about 60 miles south of San Francisco.
- HyTAQ Robot - It rolls, it flies.
  
  An amazingly elegant new flying rolling robot machine. Form and function synergize to create a new class of vehicle!
- Psychedelic Science Conference Examines MDMA Treatment for PTSD
  
  At the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Psychedelic Science 2013 conference in Oakland this weekend there were mind-boggling displays of psychedelic art; tables full of books on LSD, MDMA, peyote, ayahuasca, and other, stranger
- Google reveals tech specs for Glass
  
  We have more info about Glass, after Google released the tech specs of its upcoming smartglasses.
- Getting 3-D Printing and Next-Generation Manufacturing to the Factory Floor [Video]
  
  The White House’s budget promises millions of dollars to build a solid foundation for additive manufacturing
- Mystic Chemist: The Life of Albert Hofmann and His Discovery of LSD
  
  Only a few discoveries of the 20th century have had such a crucial and meaningful influence on science, society and culture as LSD; this mysterious and extremely potent substance which causes profound changes of consciousness in very small doses
- Our Future Report interview at Psychdelic Science 2013 with Dieter Hagenbach and Lucius Werthmuller
  
  Authors of Mystic Chemist - The Life of Albert Hofmann and His Discovery of LSD
April 16, 2013
- Celebrity's Facebook post about Boston attacks goes viral
  
  Oswalt's eloquent thoughts about the attacks, which he posted Monday afternoon to his Facebook page, have been widely passed around the Internet as an inspiring testament to humankind's inherent goodness in the face of evil.
- Boston Marathon Blasts Play out over Social Media
  
  Unconfirmed reports and frequent commentary — including those warning about premature speculation — have been flying across Twitter, compressing the cycle of reaction to the disaster.
- Should You Pay $250k to Go to College?
  
  Jason Calacanis, one of the top pundits for Silicon Valley, asks the question, " Is college worth the money?"
- Amazon X-Ray Aims To End Unidentified Actor Angst
  
  Amazon's X-Ray allows viewers watching certain movies or TV shows on certain devices to touch the screen for instant actor identification
- Google Makes Its Austin Fiber Plans Official: Texas City Will Be Connected By Mid-2014
  
  Google has finally made it official: Austin will be the second city, after Kansas City, for Google Fiber
- Sweet poison: why sugar is ruining our health
  
  Increasingly, experts believe we can be truly addicted to sugar.
- Google Glass (infographic) - How it works
  
  How does it work, Google's new Glass? Why can you see with it a sharp image-layer? How does the image overlay the image of reality? The following infographic illustrates the optical principle
- Preview of SciFi film Elysium, with Matt Damon and Jodi Foster
  
  In the year 2154, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth.
- Survey Results Reveal Distracted Driving Habits of San Diegans
  
  Phoning and driving increases the risk of crashes four-fold, with hands-free and handheld devices equally dangerous; equivalent to driving with a blood alcohol content at the legal limit of .08
- BRAIN Initiative Challenges Researchers to Unlock Mysteries of Human Mind
  
  As part of the new BRAIN research initiative, DARPA plans $50 million in 2014 investments to increase understanding of brain function and create new capabilities.
- Future ‘microrockets’ and ‘micromotors’ to deliver drugs, perform microsurgery
  
  An advance in micromotor technology akin to the invention of cars that fuel themselves from the pavement or air, rather than gasoline or batteries, is opening the door to broad new medical and industrial uses for these tiny devices
- ‘Spooky action at a distance’ to be tested aboard the ISS
  
  Researchers have proposed using the International Space Station (ISS) to test the limits of this “spooky action” and potentially help to develop the first global quantum communication network.
- Man will become like God, say Mormons and transhumanists in Salt Lake City
  
  Mormon transhumanists are persuaded that we will become like God — through science and technology — in a progression without end
- UC San Diego Computer Scientists Develop First-person Player Video Game that Teaches How to Program in Java
  
  CodeSpells, an immersive, first-person player video game designed to teach students in elementary to high school how to program in the popular Java language, has been developed
- Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung may be just on time: ABI projects 1.2m smartwatch shipments in 2013
  
  Over the last nine months a number of new smartwatches have emerged that could change consumers’ perceptions.
- The untold story behind Apple's $13,000 operating system
  
  How Apple created its first disk OS, a chapter of Silicon Valley history critical to its later success.
- Prepare Your Eyeballs: E-Book Subscriptions Are Coming
  
  E-books are getting the Spotify subscription model.
April 09, 2013
- 60 Second Adventures in Astronomy Explains the Big Bang, Relativity & More with Fun Animation
  
  These amusing animations actually edutain you quite a bit in a minute!
- Listening to the Big Bang – in high fidelity (audio)
  
  an audio recreation of the Big Bang that started our universe nearly 14 billion years ago.
- Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too)
  
  Welcome to a parallel world of pseudo-academia, complete with prestigiously titled conferences and journals that sponsor them.
- WikiLeaks publishes 1.7m+ United States records as it launches new ‘PlusD’ searchable repository
  
  WikiLeaks has published over 1.7 million US diplomatic records from the 1970s today, coined the Kissinger Cables, to coincide with the launch of a new searchable database for all of its released materials.
- Magic Mushroom Clinical Trial Stalls Due To Drug Regulations
  
  The world's first clinical trial designed to explore using a hallucinogen from magic mushrooms to treat people with depression has stalled because of British and European rules on the use of illegal drugs in research.
- Studies find heart can affect how we feel fear
  
  Fear may be felt in the heart as well as the head, according to a study that has found a link between the cycles of a beating heart and the likelihood of someone taking fright.
- LIVE! Saint Louis Outdoor & Indoor Radiation Monitors
  
  This is an EXPERIMENTAL live data feed from an outdoor & indoor radiation monitors.
- Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter?
  
  Every 30 seconds or so, an algorithm developed by Narrative Science produces a computer-written news story
- Red Meat May Clog Arteries Because of Gut Bacteria
  
  The finding would explain why even lean meat poses a heart risk
- Origins of life? Discovery could help explain how first organisms emerged on Earth
  
  Professor Michael Blaber and his team produced data supporting the idea that 10 amino acids believed to exist on Earth around 4 billion years ago were capable of forming foldable proteins in a high-salt (halophile) environment.
- Breakthrough in hydrogen fuel production could revolutionize alternative energy market
  
  A team of Virginia Tech researchers has discovered a way to extract large quantities of hydrogen from any plant, a breakthrough that has the potential to bring a low-cost, environmentally friendly fuel source to the world
- 3D printer can build synthetic tissues
  
  A custom-built programmable 3D printer can create materials with some the properties of living tissues
- Missing Link between Human Speech and Monkey Chatter
  
  The lip-smacking vocalizations gelada monkeys make are surprisingly similar to human speech
- Curiosity rover experiment finds Mars has lost a lot of its ancient atmosphere
  
  Billions of years ago, Mars was a significantly warmer and wetter world
- Using sounds to reveal the shape of the Universe
  
  To what extent can the shape of a thing be known from the sound of its acoustic vibrations?
- Ability To 'Think About Thinking' Not Limited Only To Humans
  
  Humans’ closest animal relatives, chimpanzees, have metacognition — knowing what one knows
- Hacktivists to Israel: 'Be ready for new larger surprises’
  
  More than 100,000 Israeli websites have come under attack from Anonymous hacktivists around the world.
- Hackers Besiege Banks As Global Cyber War Ramps Up
  
  Major U.S. bank websites have been offline a total of 249 hours in the past six weeks, perhaps the clearest indication yet that American companies are prime targets in an unrelenting, global cyber conflict.
- Easing Brain Fatigue With a Walk in the Park
  
  An innovative new study from Scotland confirms the observation that you can ease brain fatigue simply by strolling through a leafy park,
- Facebook Asks You To Please Select Your Emotion
  
  Today the Facebook status update box began offering the option to “share how you’re feeling or what you’re doing” through a drop-down menu of emoticons and media.
- Multimedia arts pioneer Sherrie Rabinowitz passes
  
  One of the most creative minds of interactive multimedia is now experimenting on 'the other side.'
- The TEDx West Hollywood Story
  
  ExTEDxWestHollywood has risen to take the place of TEDxWestHollywood. The same outstanding speakers and performers have been relocated to the Vortex Dome
April 2, 2013
- Ag drone field grows
  
  Robotic aircraft to pilot future of farming
- New solar structure cools buildings in full sunlight, replacing air conditioners
  
  Homes and buildings chilled without air conditioners? Car interiors that don't heat up in the summer sun? Tapping the frigid expanses of outer space to cool the planet? Yes.
- The Bigfoot Discovery Project
  
  Our collection includes exhibits of local history, tied in with local Bigfoot sightings, Popular Culture as it relates to the public view of Bigfoot, and actual evidence in the form of plaster foot and hand prints
- Better than X-rays: A more powerful terahertz imaging system
  
  Low-energy terahertz radiation could potentially enable doctors to see deep into tissues without the damaging effects of X-rays, or allow security guards to identify chemicals in a package
- Intense terahertz pulses cause DNA damage and repair
  
  Short yet powerful bursts of terahertz radiation can damage DNA and also increase the production of proteins that help the cells to repair this damage.
- Biological transistor enables computing within living cells
  
  Stanford University bioengineers have taken computing beyond mechanics and electronics into the living realm of biology by creating the “transcriptor”
- Keep your laws off my body!
  
  Let’s say you have a incurable illness, and someone has developed a controversial stem-cell treatment that has led to a cure in about 80 patients. Do you have a right to ignore government regulations prohibiting its use?
- Meet Ropits, the Japanese robot car that drives itself
  
  Hitachi has launched the self-driving Robot for Personal Intelligent Transport System (Ropits) car, developed for elderly and disabled drivers
- TED removes TEDxWestHollywood license: ideas that have ‘failed to gain scientific acceptance’
  
  So which specific speakers does TED object to? “The names of note they wanted us to qualify for them were Marianne Williamson, Russell Targ, Larry Dossey, and Marilyn Schlitz,” says organizer Taylor
- Bitcoin Hits $1 Billion
  
  Bitcoin set a new record for itself yesterday afternoon as the price listed on the largest online exchange rose past US $92. With nearly 11 million Bitcoins in circulation*, this sets the total worth of the currency just over one billion dollars.
- Huge online attack exposes internet's vulnerability
  
  It was the largest online attack ever reported. Over the course of the past week, servers belonging to an international non-profit company called The Spamhaus Project, which fights email spammers, were inundated with up to 38 gigabytes of traffic each sec
- Smell-o-vision screens let you really smell the coffee
  
  The "smelling screen", invented by Haruka Matsukura at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan and colleagues, makes smells appear to come from the exact spot on any LCD screen that is displaying the image of a cup of coffee, for example.
- Audio Maps for Blind Help Traverse Unknown Places
  
  Before the ubiquity of GPS, drivers had to look at maps and memorize directions. Blind people experience a similar problem when walking through unknown territory, but there hasn’t been an easy way for them to “look” at a map in preparation for a trip.
- Robot ants mimic real ant colony behavior
  
  Scientists have replicated the behavior of a colony of ants on the move with the use of miniature robots
- Robotic jellyfish could one day patrol oceans, clean oil spills, and detect pollutants
  
  Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers are working on a multi-university, nationwide project for the U.S. Navy that one day will put life-like autonomous robot jellyfish in waters around the world.
- Designer Carbon Provides Longer Battery Life
  
  Energ2’s nanostructured carbon anodes can boost lithium-ion battery capacity by 30 percent.
- Kinect-Powered Depression Detector is Amazing and Creepy
  
  By analyzing a surprisingly simple set of facial tics, a depth camera can see right into your soul.
March 26, 2013
- How would you like to invest in immortality?
  
  Russian Internet mogul Dmitry Itskov is looking for backers for the world's first immortality research center.
- The Google Graveyard
  
  Leave a flower for a deceased Google product.
- 3-D printing is now revolutionizing product development
  
  New printing technology significantly reduces the time corporations spend prototyping fresh designs and now consumer-level machines could make engineers of us all
- Pew Pew! Scientists Build Lasers Out of Sound, Call Them Phasers
  
  Using a nanoscale drum, scientists have built a laser that uses sound waves instead of light like a conventional laser.
- Scientists transplant neural stem cells from a monkey’s skin into its brain
  
  Proof-of-principle study raises hope for personalized regenerative medicine, possible future Parkinson's treatment
- The Weird 1969 New Wave Sci-Fi Novel that Correctly Predicted the Current Day
  
  Stand on Zanzibar is that rarity among science fiction novels — it really made accurate predictions about the future.
- The Pale Blue Dot: A Portrait of Earth Shot From More Than 4 Billion Miles Away
  
  Seeing as the Voyager-1 spacecraft has been in the news recently, here’s the story of a very special photograph that it took 23 years ago known as “The Pale Blue Dot”.
- Serotonin receptors offer clues to new antidepressants
  
  Shapes of binding sites could help drug discovery and the study of consciousness.
- A libertarian nightmare: Bitcoin meets Big Government
  
  The hype has never been hotter for the Internet's No. 1 virtual currency. Is this the beginning of the end?
- Dr. Eric Pearl - Reconnective Healing
  
  Dr. Pearl is helping to foster a form of collaborative group intelligence in the healing process.
March 19, 2013
- NASA rover finds conditions once suited for ancient life on Mars
  
  An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.
- 3D-Printable Gun Project Announces Plans For A For-Profit Search Engine Startup
  
  Defense Distributed have worked towards a controversial goal: To make as many firearm components as possible into 3D-printable, downloadable files. Now they’re seeking to make those files searchable, too.
- Answering messages behind the wheel is as dangerous as being twice over the limit
  
  Using a handsfree kit or sending text messages is the same as being above the legal alcohol limit
- Declassified: America's Secret Flying Saucer
  
  In the 1950s, a small team of engineers set to work on a secret program called Project 1794—a supersonic craft designed to shoot down Soviet bombers. Now a trove of declassified documents reveals the audacious mission to build a flying saucer.
- Paramount acquires science-fiction novel ‘Nexus’
  
  In the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link humans together, mind to mind.
- Hey, at Least You Can Be Virtually Immortal
  
  People suddenly have the tools and the desire to record the lives of almost everybody. The ancient problem that bedeviled historians — a lack of information — has been overcome.
- Engineered artificial human livers for drug testing and discovery
  
  Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) researchers have engineered an artificial human liver that mimics the natural tissue environment closely.
- Events in the future seem closer than those in the past
  
  We tend to feel closer to the future because we feel like we’re moving toward it
- Study: Moving Backward Alters Our Perception of Time
  
  We perceive the future as closer than the past. Except for when we're moving in reverse.
- Astronomers conduct first remote reconnaissance of another solar system
  
  New imaging tools penetrate bright starlight to image planets; could help identify candidate habitable planets for 100YSS expedition
- Earth-sized planets in habitable zones are more common than previously thought
  
  The number of potentially habitable planets is greater than previously thought, according to a new analysis by a Penn State researcher, and some of those planets are likely lurking around nearby stars.
- The Closest Star System Found in a Century
  
  A pair of newly discovered stars is the third-closest star system to the Sun
March 12, 2013
- SpaceX’s Autonomous ‘Grasshopper’ Rocket Makes Milestone Flight
  
  The rocket launched, hovered over Texas approximately 34 seconds and returned to the pad with its most accurate landing to date
- Musk’s Space Talk Wows Crowd at South by Southwest
  
  The SpaceX founder talked about subjects ranging from space-travel technologies to solar power to electric cars. But what the SXSW Interactive attendees were mostly there to hear about were his exploits in outer space.
- At an Annual Tech Show, SXSW, It’s Hardware’s Turn in the Spotlight
  
  The most talked-about start-ups this year include the maker of a camera that automatically takes a photo every 30 seconds, a new game console and a gadget that lets people control their computers and devices by waving their hands.
- Plasmonic nanoparticles increase solar-cell output for near-infrared region
  
  Quantum-dot photovoltaics offers the potential for low-cost, large-area solar power.
- A Genetic Switch to Reverse Aging in Neurons
  
  Called the Nogo Receptor 1, the gene is responsible for shutting down neuronal plasticity once an organism reaches adulthood.
- Cells Found in Human Brain Make Mice Smarter
  
  When transplanted into mice, these human glial cells could influence communication within the brain, allowing the animals to learn more rapidly.
- Why Data Caps Suck - an animated explanation
  
  Tired of the tyranny of data caps on your bandwidth usage? Check out what's really going on..
- “Zero TV” Households Now At 5 Million, Says Nielsen, Up From 3 Million In 2007, But Still Just 5% Of Market
  
  While the “Zero TV” household could also refer to those who simply don’t watch video content at all, most (67%) still do watch video content. Thirty-seven percent do so on a computer, 16 percent via the Internet, 8% on smartphones and 6% on tablets.
- First Video Synthesizer for the iPad
  
  Video of the Party Projector in action, amazing wireless video with FX capability,updated this week. This would have blown away the pioneers of the field!
- Hear Planet - The Future of Audio in Mobile apps
  
  Radio is great, but what's next when it comes to audio entertainment and information?
- Biological tooth replacement - a step closer
  
  An advance in efforts to develop a method to replace missing teeth with new bioengineered teeth generated from a person’s own gum cells.
- Up: the story behind Richard Branson's goal to make Virgin a galactic success
  
  A really good piece that goes through the whole history of the program up to the preparations for powered flights later this year.
March 5, 2013
- 3-D Printed Car Is as Strong as Steel, Half the Weight, and Nearing Production
  
  Picture an assembly line not that isn’t made up of robotic arms spewing sparks to weld heavy steel, but a warehouse of plastic-spraying printers producing light, cheap and highly efficient automobiles
- The Super Supercapacitor | Brian Golden Davis
  
  Ric Kaner set out to find a new way to make graphene, the thinnest and strongest material on earth. What he found was a new way to power the world.
- UCLA researchers develop new technique to scale up production of graphene micro-supercapacitors
  
  Researchers use a DVD burner to fabricate micro-scale graphene-based supercapacitors — devices that can charge and discharge a hundred to a thousand times faster than standard batteries
- 4D printed objects 'make themselves'
  
  architect and computer scientist Skylar Tibbits showed how the process allows objects to self-assemble.
- Mars May Get Hit By a Comet in 2014
  
  Mars may get hit by a comet called C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring), around Oct. 19, 2014, missing the planet by 37,000 km (23,000 miles)
- What is the Brain Activity Map? A Q&A with George Church
  
  The brain activity map is really a project to enable us to read from and write to individual neurons in complex networks
- Cryopreservation — a chance for highly endangered mammals
  
  Scientists of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) have successfully performed cryopreservation — freezing and thawing oocytes (egg cells) from different cat species at minus 196 degrees Celsius.
- The Google Glass feature no one is talking about
  
  We are talking about the ability to record video of the people, places, and events around you, at all times.
- Space-based solar farms power up
  
  It would solve our energy needs overnight. But with huge technological and financial challenges, can space-based solar power ever take off?
- Android smartphone to control satellite in orbit
  
  A satellite with an Android Google Nexus One smartphone at its heart is now orbiting the Earth at an altitude of 785 kilometers.
- The Psychedelic Future of the Mind: How Entheogens Are Enhancing Cognition, Boosting Intelligence, and Raising Values
  
  Explores scientific and medical research on the emerging uses of psychedelics to enrich mind, morals, spirituality, and creativity
- Read Free Online Timothy Leary’s brain-melting comic about space migration and the future of human consciousness
  
  Neurocomics is certainly a product of its era and Leary's obsessions, blending evolutionary science, mysticism, Jungian psychology, notions of panspermia, cybernetics research, and psychedelic experiences.
- Pentagon: Cuts Could Hamper Ability To Invade Countries For No Reason
  
  The spending cuts mandated by the sequester may hamper the United States’s ability to invade countries for absolutely no reason, a Pentagon spokesman warned today. Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/03/pentagon-cuts-coul
- Bringing on the Borg rats?
  
  I heard the rumblings on Twitter, and then on the blogs. It was telepathy. No, it wasn’t telepathy, but it was close. It was like the Borg. No it wasn’t. It was a mind meld! Ok, maybe.
- Interbreeding With Neanderthals
  
  Telltale evidence of ancient liaisons with Neanderthals and other extinct human relatives can be found in the DNA of billions of people.
- Corporate Profits Are Eating the Economy
  
  How did this happen? What to do?
- Surveillance Camera Man
  
  A graphic example of how our society hates to be videoed. To accompany our conversation about Google Glass privacy issues this week.
- Example of Using Google Glass in Public
  
  How a guy might use Glass to court a young lady..Hilarious!
February 26, 2013
- No big compromises? Blame party power
  
  With power divided on Capitol Hill, bipartisan solutions are necessary.. But how?
- The Drone Industry Wants a Makeover
  
  Drone companies try to convince the public there's more to them than spying and killing
- New Campaign Aims to Halt Rise of 'Killer Robots'
  
  What was once science fiction is not as far off as people think, say Nobel laureates and scientists
- New Google campus planned, turning the Googleplex into a megaplex
  
  Google Inc. is preparing to break ground on a 42-acre campus called Bayview that promises to elevate the pampering of its hard-driving, type-A workers to a whole new level.
- First space tourist plans independent Mars mission
  
  The Inspiration Mars Foundation, led by Dennis Tito, the first space tourist, will announce on Wednesday Feb. 27 a planned mission to Mars in 2018.
- BIL - Minds Set Free
  
  Most of you have heard of TED or watched the talks online, but do you know about BIL, the quirky, populist, unconference taking place nearby?
- Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain
  
  The Obama administration is planning a decade-long scientific effort to examine the workings of the human brain and build a comprehensive map of its activity, seeking to do for the brain what the Human Genome Project did for genetics.
- Do We Live Inside a Mathematical Equation?
  
  Reality is a mathematical structure, says MIT physicist Max Tegmark — his “mathematical universe hypothesis.”
- Transparent solar cells
  
  A spectrally selective approach could let tablets, e-readers, and windows turn light into power.
- A flexible, transparent gesture sensor
  
  A new method of capturing images based on a flat, flexible, transparent, and potentially disposable polymer sheet has been developed
- New self-driving car system tested on UK roads
  
  British-developed technology differs from Google's, using 3D laser scanner on front of vehicle rather than GPS navigation
- Fujitsu Prototype Smart Cane Makes You Want to Get Old (w/video)
  
  uses GPS to guide the user who now doesn’t have to use a smartphone with the other hand. It also integrates a small heart rate meter right into the handle
- Engineering cells for more efficient biofuel production
  
  Yeast research takes a step toward production of alternatives to gasoline.
- Stanford scientists fit light-emitting bioprobe in a single cell
  
  tanford researchers are the first to demonstrate that sophisticated light resonators can be inserted inside living cells without damage to the cell.
- Next Generation LiveCode (Open Source)
  
  The evolution of the famous and empowering Hypercard goes Open Source!
- The First Kickstarter Film to Win an Oscar Takes Home Crowdsourced Gold
  
  The film, Inocente, about a 15-year-old homeless girl and aspiring artist, won the little gold man in the Best Documentary (Short Subject) category
- Indiegogo Film "The King and Me", a documentary film by Dave Blackburn
  
  Examines the intertwined lives of softball pitchers Dave Blackburn and Eddie"The King" Feigner. Dave is a longtime technology visionary.
February 19, 2013
- Ray Kurzweil Plans to Create a Mind at Google—and Have It Serve You
  
  The technologist speaks about an ambitious plan to build a powerful artificial intelligence.
- Good audio recording of the Russian meteor air burst
  
  A very good recording of the sound of the Russian meteor air burst last week.
- Flexible Classroom Design Saves Money, Improves Flexibility, Accessibility of Instruction
  
  The new classrooms take advantage of the fact that students are bringing their own technology – such as laptops – to class. The classrooms also include mobile infrastructure, where whiteboards, desks and tables can be reconfigured according to the needs o
- How Google Retooled Android With Help From Your Brain
  
  Google installed a voice recognition system based on what’s called a neural network — a computerized learning system that behaves much like the human brain.
- Solve for X: celebrating moonshot thinking
  
  Google hosted its 2013 Solve for X event, where they gathered 50 experienced entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists from around the world who are taking on moonshots — proposals that address a huge problem, suggest a radical solution that could work.
- Researchers identify potential target for age-related cognitive decline
  
  Scientists have discovered a molecule that accumulates with age and inhibits the formation of new neurons. The finding might help scientists design therapies to prevent age-related cognitive decline.
- Kinect-based system dramatically cuts cost of telemedicine
  
  A Kinect game controller and Microsoft software could cut the U.S. healthcare bill by up to $30 billion by allowing physicians and other medics to interact with patients remotely.
- Artificial retina receives FDA approval
  
  Argus II is first approved prosthesis to restore limited vision to those blinded by retinitis pigmentosa
- New therapy uses electricity to cancel out Parkinson tremors
  
  Transcranial alternating current stimulation (TACS) — cancels out the brain signal causing the tremors by applying a small, safe electric current across electrodes on the outside of a patient’s head.
- ‘Young’ black hole is nearby
  
  A supernova remnant called W49B 26,000 light-years away may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy.
- Is the ozone layer on the road to recovery?
  
  Satellites show that the recent ozone hole over Antarctica was the smallest seen in the past decade.
- Meteor sparks rumors, conspiracy theories in Russia
  
  The meteor that tore across the skies over Russia's Chelyabinsk region early Friday led some suspicious Russians to conclude that it was a stealth military attack by either the U.S. or China.
- First Test of Seismic Invisibility Cloak
  
  Engineers and physicists are developing acoustic versions of metamaterials that steer sound, which could be used to steer seismic waves around high-value buildings such as nuclear power stations or airports.
- Has Dark Matter Finally Been Found? Big News Coming Soon
  
  Big news in the search for dark matter may be coming in about two weeks, the leader of a space-based particle physics experiment said Feb. 17 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Disruptions: On the Fast Track to Routine 3-D Printing
  
  Hod Lipson, an associate professor and the director of the Creative Machines Lab at Cornell, said “3D printing is worming its way into almost every industry, from entertainment, to food, to bio- and medical-applications."
December 18, 2012
- Chinese astronauts may grow veg on Moon
  
  Chinese astronauts may get fresh vegetables and oxygen supplies by gardening in extraterrestrial bases in the future, an official said after a just-concluded lab experiment in Beijing.
- Biophysicists unravel cellular 'traffic jams' in active transport
  
  UMass Amherst biophysicists, using a unique microscope, have improved upon earlier studies that used too-simple models not able to account for the densely crowded, dynamic conditions of a active transport in a real cell
- Google's Ray Kurzweil hire could yield some good returns
  
  Company's hiring of Ray Kurzweil will have implications far beyond Google's fun projects. His machine-learning know-how could affect networks, data centers, and algorithms too.
- Studying Ethical Questions as the Brain’s Black Box Is Unlocked
  
  Dr. Liao, 40, the director of the bioethics program at New York University, deploys the tools of philosophy, history, psychology, religion and ethics to understand the impact of neuroscientific breakthroughs.
- The U.N. Fought The Internet -- And The Internet Won; WCIT Summit In Dubai Ends
  
  For the last two weeks some of the planet’s most oppressive regimes have faced off against some of the most powerful Internet advocates in an effort to rewrite a multilateral communications treaty
- Tweet while you speak with Purdue's Backdraft iPad app
  
  This new app allows speakers to write Twitter messages, or tweets, and release them at appropriate moments during a talk. The messages may contain links, photos or video clips to provide additional information about the subject.
- 23andMe’s Ancestry Composition Reveals People's Ancestral Origins Going Back 500 Years And More
  
  23 and me announced today Ancestry Composition, a new service that will reveal the geographic origins of your DNA, included in 23 and me’s new $99 one-time price (was $299).
- A 360-degree view of the world
  
  FlyVIZ, designed by French engineers, lets you experience a real-time 360° vision of your surroundings.
- 'Transcendence' Revealed: Johnny Depp to Play Supercomputer
  
  Johnny Depp will play Will, a scientist whose brain is uploaded into a supercomputer in Transcendence (2014
- LinkedIn Endorsements: Half a Billion Served
  
  Have you been endorsed recently? If you have a LinkedIn profile, there’s a good chance you have been. Endorsements have exploded since they launched in September
- Scientists Discover Mechanism That Could Reduce Obesity
  
  An international team of scientists led by Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center researcher Andrew Larner, M.D., Ph.D., has successfully reversed obesity in mice by manipulating the production of an enzyme known as tyrosine-protein kinase-
- Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That’s OK: how to survive the economic collapse and be happy
  
  As we speak, millions of algorithms created by computer scientists are frantically running on servers all over the world, with one sole purpose: do whatever humans can do, but better.
- Dr. Bruce Damer on Terrence McKenna's 2012 Prediction
  
  Dr. Bruce shares his insights into Terrence's psyche, and his skeptical perspective on many things future.
December 11, 2012
- Update: New 25 GPU Monster Devours Passwords In Seconds
  
  here needs to be some kind of Moore’s law analog to capture the tremendous advances in the speed of password cracking operations.
- 10 supplements you can take today to enhance your intelligence
  
  This supplements have noticeable improvements to your learning abilities, memory, mental clarity, and mood
- Driverless vehicles to zip at full speed through intersections
  
  Driverless vehicles will safely wiz through intersections at the full speed limit, according to researchers from Virginia Tech Transportation Research.
- What listening to a story does to our brains
  
  Since the dawn of humankind, telling stories has been one of our most fundamental communication methods
- High-energy physicists smash records for network data transfer
  
  Physicists led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have smashed yet another series of records for data-transfer speed.
- Next Year’s 3-D Printers Promise Big Things — Really Big Things
  
  Instead of being limited to printing small components like a bike helmet or pedal, engineers can now print an entire bike frame in one shot.
- NASA Mars Rover Fully Analyzes First Soil Samples
  
  NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil
- Mystery: Hundreds of Giant Red Squid Wash Up on Rio del Mar Beach Sunday
  
  Hundreds of dead Humboldt squid mysteriously washed up on beaches along Rio del Mar Sunday.
- Brain cells made from urine
  
  Some of the waste that humans flush away every day could become a powerful source of brain cells to study disease, and may even one day be used in therapies for neurodegenerative diseases.
- The Man Who Would Stop Time
  
  Bill Andrews has spent two decades unlocking the molecular mechanisms of aging. His mission: to extend the human life span to 150 years--or die trying
- Antiaging Supplement Report
  
  Two dietary supplements straight off the health food store shelf put the spark back into aging rats, and might do the same for aging baby boomers
- Matching DNA With Medical Records To Crack Disease And Aging
  
  A massive research project in California is beginning to show how genes, health habits and the environment can interact to cause diseases.
- The New Science of Reverse Aging
  
  Scientists have pinpointed the exact part of our DNA that links stress to aging. Danielle Friedman on how your doctor will soon test you for it—and 10 ways to turn back the clock now.
- Elizabeth Blackburn (UCSF) iBio 3: Stress, Telomeres and Telomerase in Humans
  
  A major anti-aging research scientist shares here work on Telemeres
- Rescuing a Beached Jumbo Humboldt Squid
  
  Ethan Bearman and Dr. Future try to change the fate of a mysterious sea creature
December 4, 2012
- The DSM-5 has been finalised
  
  The American Psychiatric Association have just announced that the new diagnostic manual has been approved by the board of trustees.
- Twitter is a machine for continual self-reinvention
  
  There's no memory at Twitter: everything is fleeting. So many are taking advantage of that..
- Why Tesla is like Amazon and Elon Musk like Jeff Bezos
  
  You don’t often hear Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos mentioned in the same breath...
- The amazing, uncertain, and super-personal future of 3D printed sex toys
  
  Tom Nardone runs MakerLove, a website where he posts sex toy designs for 3D printer owners to try out.
- Report from the DroneGames (formerly Drone Olympics ;-))
  
  DIY Drones are here and now. See the latest!
- Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?
  
  The little creature of the sea that appears to debunk the most fundamental law of the natural world: you are born, and then you die.
- “The Biggest Breakthrough in Propulsion Since the Jet Engine.”
  
  Critical tests have been successfully completed on the key technology for SABRE, an engine which will enable aircraft to reach the opposite side of the world in under 4 hours, or to fly directly into orbit and return, taking off and landing on a runway.
- This radical discovery could turn semiconductor manufacture inside out
  
  A completely new method of manufacturing the smallest structures in electronics could make their manufacture thousands of times quicker, allowing for cheaper semiconductors.
- Minecraft Augmented Reality for iOS
  
  Now you can place your Minecraft 3D creations into the real world for other people to find.
- Students win $100K for 3-D printer to turn waste plastic into composting toilets, rainwater harvesting systems
  
  A University of Washington team claimed a $100,000 prize in the first 3D4D Challenge, an international contest to use 3-D printing for social benefit in the developing world.
- popSLATE – an E-Ink second screen for your iPhone 5
  
  Unlike your standard "dumb" cases, the popSLATE won't just protect your phone, but also provides a rear-facing 4-inch E-Ink display that's capable of displaying images, slideshows and even app alerts.
- Driverless Cars - Moral Machines?
  
  Within two or three decades the difference between automated driving and human driving will be so great you may not be legally allowed to drive your own car
- Physicists Find Evidence That The Universe Is A 'Giant Brain'
  
  Physicists say there may be some evidence that it's actually true. In a sense.
- Five Facts about America's Pathological Wealth Distribuition
  
  From 2002 to 2007, two-thirds of all income went to the richest 1%. Then, in the first year after the recession, a startling 93% of all new income went to the richest 1%.
- 10 Brainteasers to Test Your Mental Sharpness
  
  To test your mental acuity, answer the following questions
- Project Imagination Film Project
  
  10 top film directors will choose crowd submitted pics for creating a film from the still.
- Facebook Asks Users To Vote On Whether Users Can Vote
  
  The pseudo-democracy of Facebook has invited its billion-plus users to vote on their own rights
November 27, 2012
- Brazil aims to clone endangered animals
  
  Conservationists in Brazil are poised to try cloning eight animals that are under pressure, including jaguars and maned wolves.
- Attack of the Mutant Pupfish
  
  The New Conservationists - becoming architects, engineers, and contractors for entire ecosystems
- Samsung plans flexible, unbreakable, lighter phones
  
  Samsung is pushing ahead with plans to start mass production of displays using plastic rather than glass, a move that will make mobile devices unbreakable, lighter and bendable.
- Can a robot make a better, faster burger?
  
  Momentum Machines says it’s created a new robot that can make about 360 burgers an hour in a 24-square foot area and that they plan to use it in “the first restaurant chain that profitably sells gourmet hamburgers at fast food prices.”
- Huge Mars colony eyed by SpaceX founder Elon Musk
  
  Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX, wants to help establish a Mars colony of up to 80,000 people by ferrying explorers there for perhaps $500,000 a trip
- In Space, Flames Behave in Ways Nobody Thought Possible
  
  Combustion experiments conducted in zero gravity yield surprising results
- A ‘Party Drug’ May Help the Brain Cope With Trauma
  
  Michael and Ann Mithoefer are evaluating MDMA for trauma.
- Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore
  
  The age of the password is over. We just haven’t realized it yet.
- New DNA study proves existence of Sasquatch
  
  a team of scientists, using samples of strange, unknown hair, found in the wild, have confirmed the existence of a novel hominin hybrid species, commonly called “Bigfoot” or “Sasquatch,” living in North America.
- Power is just a heartbeat away
  
  Scientists have found ways to generate electricity from the body’s rhythms that could provide a vital source of energy
- Is the Robot Operating System ready for the industrial world?
  
  What are the advantages and disadvantages of using ROS in an industrial connection?
- Pentagon: A Human Will Always Decide When a Robot Kills You
  
  The Pentagon wants to make perfectly clear that every time one of its flying robots releases its lethal payload, it’s the result of a decision made by an accountable human being in a lawful chain of command.
- Thinking Clearly About Personality Disorders
  
  This weekend the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association will vote on whether to adopt a new diagnostic system for some of the most serious, and striking, syndromes in medicine: personality disorders.
- Facebook Debunks Copyright Hoax
  
  A silly copyright notice is sweeping Facebook today, with users attaching pseudo-legalese to their status updates in a misguided effort to prevent Facebook from owning or commercially exploiting their content.
- Open Source Entrepreneurship
  
  Steve Blank's collection of free and almost free tools, class syllabi, presentations, books, lectures, videos in the hope that it can make your path as an entrepreneur or educator easier.
- Free Mac AntiVirus Software
  
  In the event you have a Mac with no protection. This was recommended by listener Bobby Wilder.
- Free Security Tool Nmap Packet Sniffer
  
  Recommended by Captain Crunch as a tool for checking to see if your machine is a slave to a bot net, possibly run by the Chinese or Russians.
- Little Snitch - Mac protection software recommended by Captain Crunch
  
  A firewall protects your computer against unwanted guests from the Internet. But who protects your private data from being sent out? Little Snitch does!
November 20, 2012
- Book- The Half-Life of Facts - A Scientific Blind Spot
  
  Knowledge—the collection of "accepted facts"—is far less fixed than we assume. In every discipline, facts change in predictable, quantifiable ways.
- Does chocolate make you clever?
  
  The authors of a new scientific study took the number of Nobel Prize winners in a country as an indicator of general national intelligence and compared that with the nation's chocolate consumption.
- Chris Anderson: Why I left Wired - 3D Printing Will Be Bigger Than The Web
  
  Chris Anderson, former Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine, believes home-based "replicators" will transform our future.
- Book Review- RAY KURZWEIL’S DUBIOUS NEW THEORY OF MIND
  
  The challenge of figuring out how the mind works is too complicated for even the smartest of entrepreneurs to solve on their own.
- Using Just 10% of Your Brain? Think Again
  
  No, you do not, in fact, use just 10% of your brain, and "learning styles" make no difference in the classroom.
- The Last Pictures Launches With EchoStar XVI Satellite
  
  Artist Trevor Paglen micro-etched one hundred photographs selected to represent modern human history onto a silicon disc encased in a gold-plated shell that was designed at MIT and Carleton College.
- MINISTRY OF INNOVATION / BUSINESS OF TECHNOLOGY Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at 700Mbps
  
  Startup founder: "It’s unbelievable. I’m probably not going to leave the house."
- The Library of Utopia
  
  Google's ambitious book-scanning program is foundering in the courts. Now a Harvard-led group is launching its own sweeping effort to put our literary heritage online. Will the Ivy League succeed where Silicon Valley failed?
- Fuel From Waste, Poised at a Milestone
  
  Officials at two companies that have built multimillion-dollar factories say they are very close to beginning large-scale, commercial production of these so-called cellulosic biofuels.
- New brain gene gives us edge over apes
  
  An international team led by the University of Edinburgh has discovered a new gene called miR-941 that helps explain how humans evolved evolved from apes by playing a crucial role in human brain development
- Anti Virus King John McAfee's Undercover Blog
  
  John poses undercover as a taco vendor to investigate why he is wanted for the murder of his neighbor.
November 13, 2012
- Murder Suspect John McAfee: I’m Innocent
  
  McAfee, 67, is the prime suspect in a murder discovered Sunday morning in Belize. Convinced that he’ll be killed if he’s taken into custody for questioning, the millionaire antivirus pioneer has gone into hiding.
- Oliver Sacks discusses 'Hallucinations', Chekhov and more
  
  Blending case studies, personal experience and clinical observation, “Hallucinations” is, like much of Sacks’ work, an investigation into neurology, psychology, the border line between mind and body.
- Sci-fi thriller Tears in Rain takes replicants to a new level
  
  Author Rosa Montero talks to Ars about her new future-noir thriller.
- NASA’s “Spot the Station” Will Text or Email You When the Space Station Passes Over Your Home
  
  As the third brightest object in the sky, after the sun and moon, the space station is easy to see if you know where and when to look for it.”
- Researchers unlock ancient Maya secrets with modern soil science
  
  Writing in the Nov.-Dec. issue of the Soil Science of America Journal (SSSA-J), an interdisciplinary team led by Richard Terry, a Brigham Young University soil scientist, now describes its analysis of maize agriculture in the soils of Tikal.
- A billion dollar software tech company is founded every 3 months *in U.S.
  
  There are about 4 billion dollar software tech companies founded every year, with the exception of 2000-2002.
- A better brain implant: Slim electrode cozies up to single neurons
  
  A thin, flexible electrode developed at the University of Michigan is 10 times smaller than the nearest competition and could make long-term measurements of neural activity practical at last.
- Awe is good for you…
  
  a series of experiments illustrating that it expands our perception of time, alters decision making, and enhances well-being.
- Almost Being There: Why the Future of Space Exploration Is Not What You Think
  
  The still-nascent field of telerobotics, where humans operate robotic surrogates from afar, means that our next exploration efforts will be quite unlike anything seen before.
- Solar Eclipses: An Observer's Guide (Infographic) Total Solar Eclipse of 2012: November's Sun Spectacle Explained (Gallery) Total Solar Eclipse Photos Helps Predict Sun Cycle | Video Total Solar Eclipse Occurs Tuesday: How to Watch Online
  
  Several different organizations will provide live webcasts of the total solar eclipse,
- Instagram project gives drone's-eye-view of strike targets
  
  An Instagram project aims to raise awareness of military drone strikes by posting a drone's-eye-view of strike locations on the photo-sharing service.
- Stanford's touch-sensitive plastic skin heals itself
  
  team of Stanford chemists and engineers has created the first synthetic material that is both sensitive to touch and capable of healing itself quickly and repeatedly at room temperature. The advance could lead to smarter prosthetics or resilient personal
- Congenitally blind learn to see and read with soundscapes
  
  Congenitally blind people have learned to ”see” and describe objects, and even identify letters and words, by using a visual-to-auditory sensory-substitution algorithm and sensory substitution devices (SSDs
- Steve Wozniak's Former Los Gatos Home Is on Market for $4.5 Million
  
  The famous co-founder of Apple appears to be moving forward with his plans relocate to Australia or New Zealand, seeking new adventures.
- World’s First 3D Printing Photo Booth to Open in Japan
  
  The world’s first “3D printing photo booth” is set to open for a limited time at the exhibition space EYE OF GYRE in Harajuku, Japan
November 6, 2012
- Unleash your inner Asimov
  
  Writing science-fiction stories about encounters with imaginary worlds and futuristic devices could have a decisive influence on innovation
- "Cloud Atlas" author David Mitchell: Adaptation is Translation
  
  What makes the film is how the three writer/directors have approached the project not as recorders of a visual audiobook, but as interpreters, or translators.
- DC comics pins Krypton to the star map
  
  it’s actually a clever tale, with some relatively solid science in it.
- Finland is about to change what we mean by “law-making”
  
  Finland will use a “citizen’s initiative” that requires the Eduskunta (Parliament) to vote on any citizen-drafted law that garners 50,000 votes of support through the Open Ministry platform – which is open-source and available on GitHub.
- Peter Thiel, Khosla, Bill Gates back air energy storage startup LightSail
  
  Peter Thiel is leading a large investment into an air energy storage startup called LightSail Energy.
- Video - Richard Feynman Talks Physics with Fred Hoyle in Take the World From Another Point of View, 1973
  
  a fascinating interview, but what sets it apart from other films on the famously charismatic and articulate Feynman is the inclusion of a conversation he had with the eminent British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle.
- Help Discover Dark Matter in the Universe, Win Money
  
  Astronomers have created a new competition that asks the general public to generate algorithms that can help spot dark matter in Hubble images.
- Obama or Romney? Let your face vote
  
  New Scientist is teaming up with emotional computing company Affectiva to gauge readers' emotional reaction
- How Science Can Build a Better You
  
  What about an embedded device that gently bathed your brain in electrons and boosted memory and attention?
- The Most Important Education Technology in 200 Years
  
  Students anywhere are being offered free instruction online. What will that do to the trillion-dollar education business?
- 5 Election-Day Decisions That Will Impact Startups and the Web
  
  We've identified three city and state measures, as well as two races for elected office whose outcomes are likely to affect startups, some very large tech companies and the future of free speech on the internet.
- 5 Apps for Election Day
  
  How is Ohio breaking? What’s the current Electoral College math? Stay on top of all the election-day craziness with these apps for on-the-go political news.
- The Man We Never Saw
  
  The only time Mitt Romney managed to be himself was when he thought no one was looking.
- Mary Meeker Gives Mid-Year Internet Trends Report: Android Adoption Ramping Up 6X Faster Than iPhone
  
  Android phone adoption is ramping up six times faster than iPhone, and Android surpassed Windows as the #1 OS for Internet-enabled devices in Q1 2012.
October 30, 2012
- Iran has drone pictures of Israeli bases
  
  Iranian drones have the ability to transmit data while in flight.
- The Psychology Of Tetris
  
  it takes advantage of the mind’s basic pleasure in tidying up and uses it against us.
- Titan's ready to roll; ORNL supercomputer may become world's No. 1
  
  Titan is ORNL's new Cray XK7 supercomputer, a transformed version of Jaguar with a hybrid architecture and at least 10 times the number-crunching power of its predecessor.
- SpaceX Completes First Cargo Mission in Commercial Spaceflight
  
  After detaching from the International Space Station, the company’s unmanned spacecraft parachuted into the water about 250 miles off the coast of southern California at 12:22 p.m. local time yesterday.
- Germany to Tap Brakes On High-Speed Trading
  
  Germany is set to advance a bill Wednesday imposing a spate of new rules on high-frequency trading, escalating Europe's sweeping response to concerns that speedy traders have brought instability to the markets.
- Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves
  
  A bold experiment by the One Laptop Per Child organization has shown “encouraging” results.
- Flying Blackout Tech - A Kinder Gentler War
  
  A recent weapons flight test in the Utah desert may change future warfare after the missile successfully defeated electronic targets with little to no collateral damage.
- Living power cables discovered
  
  Multicellular bacteria transmit electrons across relatively enormous distances
- Scientists read dreams
  
  Brain scans during sleep can decode visual content of dreams.
- Magnetic brain stimulation treats depression independent of sleep effect
  
  While powerful magnetic stimulation of the frontal lobe of the brain can alleviate symptoms of depression, those receiving the treatment did not report effects on sleep or arousal commonly seen with antidepressant medications
- Hurricane Sandy Topples New York Data Center, Gawker, Gizmodo
  
  Big-name websites Gawker, Gizmodo, The Huffington Post, and BuzzFeed experienced outages on Monday after a Manhattan data center apparently lost power due to Hurricane Sandy.
October 23, 2012
- Giant 3-D Printing Factory Opens In New York City
  
  Shapeways, an online 3-D printing company, opened an enormous "Factory of the Future" in Queens, New York that could house 50 industrial printers and churn out millions of consumer-designed products a year.
- HAL: The Do-Gooder Exo-Suit With the Really Evil Name
  
  Brain wave-controlled robot suits that allow wearers to don heavy radiation protection without feeling the weight could eventually be used by workers dismantling the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
- Hacking your own education
  
  Hackademics abandon society’s linear path to success and bend institutions to fit their own reality. Stephens shows how he and dozens of others have hacked their education, and how you can too.
- Video- The Significance of ORMES & All Natural Etherium Monatomic Elements
  
  Patrick Bailey, founder of Harmonic Innerprizes gives an in-depth explanation of Etherium Gold, Etherium Black, Etherium Red, Etherium Pink and Aulterra Monatomic products at a presentation to the Staff of Life, September 13, 2012 in Santa Cruz, CA
- The state of the U.S. election system
  
  New report from MIT and Caltech notes gains in voting-machine technologies, but warns they could be cancelled out by errors introduced through mail and Internet voting.
- The 7-Inch Competition Facing Apple’s iPad Mini
  
  Apple is jumping into a space already populated with a number of options, some of them quite good. Can Apple trounce these existing players like it did with pre-iPad era tablets?
- Breakthrough offers new route to large-scale quantum computing
  
  In a key step toward creating a working quantum computer, Princeton University researchers have developed a method that may allow for quick, reliable transfer of quantum information throughout a computing device.
- Genome Hunters Go After Martian DNA
  
  J. Craig Venter may have just started a race to discover alien life on the Red Planet.
- Craig Venter Imagines a World with Printable Life Forms
  
  Craig Venter imagines a future where you can download software, print a vaccine, inject it, and presto! Contagion averted
- 23-Year old with terminal brain cancer hopes to be cryopreserved
  
  Kim Suozzi, 23, has terminal brain cancer that is highly aggressive and growing rapidly in a location that makes surgery impossible, and her final wish is to be cryopreserved.
- Q: Why don’t apes have bigger brains? A: They can’t eat enough to afford them
  
  As animals get bigger, so do their brains. But the human brain is seven times bigger than that of other similarly sized animals.
- Jail Italian scientists over L'Aquila and what's next? Suing Michael Fish?
  
  Sending scientists to prison for misstating earthquake risk is not a great way to encourage others to take responsibility in future
- Icelanders Approve their Crowdsourced Constitution
  
  Iceland’s citizens were given a chance to help forge a new constitution for their country through Facebook and Twitter, so it’s not surprising that they backed the resulting draft.
- How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C.
  
  Once in our history, the world-wide population of human beings skidded so sharply we were down to roughly a thousand reproductive adults. One study says we hit as low as 40.
- But Why Would Amazon Wipe Your Kindle? To Protect Amazon
  
  The story of the Norwegian customer who had here entire collection of books on her Kindle wiped carries on.
October 16th, 2012
- Lithium-ion battery that charges 120 times faster than normal
  
  a battery pack for electric vechicles that can be fully charged in less than a minute.
- Cancer, Data and the Fallacy of the $1000 Genome
  
  Is the time of the $1K Genome over? What's more important?
- PH1 : A planet in a four-star system
  
  Today we’re pleased to announce the discovery of the first confirmed planet discovered by Planet Hunters, and it’s a fabulous and unusual world.
- Wrist Device Makes Controlling Gadgets a Snap
  
  Microsoft's wrist sensor controls smart phones, video games and other electronics via hand and finger gestures
- How newspapers played a faster-than-sound fall from the sky
  
  Cool Graphic showing skydiving from the edge of space!
- The World’s First 3D-Printed Acoustic Guitar
  
  it raises all kinds musical possibilities
- Let the AIs, not us, formulate a billion-year plan!
  
  Long-term, humanity will be 'left in the dust by the machines,' who will be deciding our next billion years
- Google's Answer to Siri Thinks Ahead
  
  The company's data stockpile and investment in AI means a smartphone helper that answers queries before you even ask them.
- Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism
  
  The author of The Book of Questions claims that humankind and technology have merged into a new global entity, a living extension of humankind acting through a complex system of computers and offering a promise of ever-greater prosperity.
- Intelligence agencies turn to crowdsourcing
  
  US intelligence agencies hope the "wisdom of the crowd" can help them predict the future.
- How Today’s Tablets Stack Up For Students
  
  They’re cheaper and easier to transport than laptops, yet they’re more substantial and full-featured than smartphones.
October 9, 2012
- First warp drives, and now we’re searching for Dyson Spheres. Awesome. Read more at
  
  A team of Penn State researchers were recently awarded a sizable grant to search the universe for intelligently created spheres large enough to fit a planetary system inside
- Google Venture Fund Investing $1 Billion in BioTech Startups
  
  Google’s venture fund is planning to invest $1 billion in a wide-range of start-ups over the next five years and seeks entrepreneurs that “have a healthy disregard for the impossible,” with forward-thinking ideas, especially in biotech.
- Awesome - Watch 32 discordant metronomes achieve synchrony in a matter of minutes
  
  If you place 32 metronomes on a static object and set them rocking out of phase with one another, they will remain that way indefinitely. Place them on a moveable surface, however, and something very interesting (and very mesmerizing) happens.
- A Revolutionary Cancer Treatment Device Inspired by the Mosquito
  
  http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/biomedical/devices/a-revolutionary-cancer-treatment-device-inspired-by-the-mosquito
- Untold Stories About Steve Jobs: Friends and Colleagues Share Their Memories
  
  There are plenty of “Steve” stories that you haven’t heard around, and a year after Jobs’ death on Oct. 5 at the age of 56, a few friends and colleagues shared their memories of the technology industry’s most notable luminary.
- How attention helps you remember
  
  A new study from MIT neuroscientists sheds light on a neural circuit that makes us likelier to remember what we’re seeing when our brains are in a more attentive state.
- STANFORD BIOENGINEERS INTRODUCE ‘BI-FI’ — THE BIOLOGICAL INTERNET
  
  Using the innocuous M13 bacterial virus, bioengineers at Stanford have created a biological mechanism to send genetic messages from cell to cell — which they term the “biological Internet,” or “Bi-Fi.”
- Now playing at a living room near you
  
  Indie films, finding it harder to compete at the box office, are turning to video on demand. 'Bachelorette' made $418,000 in theaters, $5.5 million in VOD rentals.
- Smartphone Technology Acceptable for Telemedicine, Mayo Clinic Study Confirms
  
  A new Mayo Clinic study confirms the use of smartphones medical images to evaluate stroke patients in remote locations through telemedicine.
- Making the Kinect ‘finger-precise’
  
  3Gear Systems has announced a software development kit for adding gestures to applications, using your entire hand (fingers, thumbs, wrists and all) for user interaction.
- A closed Android-based network to study cyber disruptions and help secure hand-held devices
  
  As part of ongoing research to help prevent and mitigate disruptions to computer networks on the Internet, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in California have turned their attention to smartphones and other hand-held computing devices.
- Reality is a computer projection: physicists
  
  What we call reality might actually be the output of a program running on a cosmos-sized quantum computer
- Cryonics Photos Delve Into the Frozen World of the Immortality Faithful
  
  The Prospect of Immortality is a six-year study by UK photographer Murray Ballard, who has traveled the world pulling back the curtain on the amateurs, optimists, businesses, and apparatuses of cryonics, the preservation of deceased humans in liquid nitro
- SpaceX lifts off with ISS cargo
  
  It is the maiden flight in a sequence of 12 missions that California's SpaceX company is performing for Nasa.
- US court to rule on ReDigi's MP3 digital music resales
  
  A US court is to consider a case that could determine whether digital media files can be resold.
- Nobel for quantum "parlor trick" that could make super computers
  
  A French and an American scientist won the Nobel Prize on Tuesday for finding ways to measure quantum particles without destroying them, which could make it possible to build a new kind of computer far more powerful than any seen before.
- Will your body be the battery of the future?
  
  Battery technology is by far the biggest limitation when it comes to modern technology
- Epic Frequency Turns Audio Files Into Wall Art
  
  Epic’s site creates oversized waveform images of famous speeches and quotes from the likes of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, and of course, President Obama and Mitt Romney.
October 2, 2012
- "Let's Build a Goddamn Tesla Museum" has been funded!
  
  Crowdsourcing has raised over 1.4 million dollars to fund a Tesla Science Center and Museum at his original complex in Long Island, NY.
- Asteroid Miners Wanted (Apply Today)
  
  The well-funded Planetary Resources Corp has just posted a call for people: “We’re looking for passionate college students for paid coop positions to help us mine asteroids this spring and summer,”
- 3-D Printer Company Seizes Machine From Desktop Gunsmith
  
  Desktop-manufacturing company Stratasys pulled the lease on a printer rented out for Wiki Weapon, the internet project lead by Wilson and dedicated to sharing open-source blueprints for 3-D printed guns.
- California Takes a Big Step Forward: Free, Digital, Open-Source Textbooks
  
  Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a proposal to create a website that will allow students to download digital versions of popular textbooks for free.
- $99 Raspberry Pi-sized “supercomputer” touted in Kickstarter project
  
  Parallel computing for everyone promised with 16- and 64-core boards.
- Formlabs Creates a Low-Cost, Light-Based 3-D Printer
  
  Formlabs’ new Form 1 3D printer could bring professional-grade 3-D prints to the home workshop.
- Animals are conscious and should be treated as such
  
  Now that scientists have belatedly declared that mammals, birds and many other animals are conscious, it is time for society to act
- Here's What the Space Around Earth Sounds Like
  
  One of NASA's newest missions has recorded the radio waves coming from our magnetosphere.
- A Rising New Currency - Bitcoin Non-Technical FAQ
  
  Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency. It does not depend on any particular organization or a person and is not backed by any commodity like gold or silver.
- Why We Need a Supercomputer on the Moon
  
  It would help alleviate a coming deep-space network traffic jam that’s had NASA scientists worried for several years now.
- Stop buying expensive wine!
  
  Our senses, and the brain centers that control pleasure, are easily fooled by expectations -- and price
- Isaac Newton’s Death Mask: Now Available in Digital 3D
  
  This death mask is one of several prepared shortly after Newton’s death
- The PC is Over
  
  The value in the desktop web is increasingly an illusion. Given the rate at which mobile devices are improving, a plunge is rapidly approaching.
- Keeping Facebook Tabs with Ex Is a Double-Edged Sword
  
  Keeping tabs on an old flame after a breakup generally makes it harder to move on in the real world, and social-network cyber spying is no different.
- The Return to Facebook
  
  Ultimately, the ability to spy on people is what brought me back.
- Rdio pays artists to be its recruiters
  
  Rdio music subscription service plans to launch a new payment system that gives money directly to artists for attracting new customers to the service.
- Celebrating Banned Books Week
  
  Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, Susan Sontag, Harper Lee, and Other Literary Greats on Censorship
September 25, 2012
- Meet the Periodic Table of Elements, personified as 118 cartoon men
  
  Bunpei Yorifuji's Wonderful Life with the Elements offers a cartoon view of chemistry, illustrating each element as a little man bearing an afro, tighty whities, a bushy beard, a luminescent glow, whatever identifies the properties of that element.
- 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence
  
  After studying how trees branch in a very specific way, Aidan Dwyer created a solar cell tree that produces 20-50% more power than a uniform array of photovoltaic panels
- NASA Team Drives Mars Rover like a 3D Video Game
  
  The team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) that controls the rover Curiosity is using NVIDIA 3D Vision glasses to see Mars in 3D and plan rover missions in a virtual, game-like environment.
- Elusive Dark Energy Is Real, Study Says
  
  After a two-year study, an international team of researchers concludes that the probability of dark energy being real stands at 99.996 percent.
- Home Sweet Lab: Computerized House to Generate as Much Energy as It Uses
  
  The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled a new laboratory designed to demonstrate that a typical-looking suburban home for a family of four can generate as much energy as it uses in a year
- What Technologies Will Crowdfunding Create?
  
  Super-users, hobbyists, and gadget fans are investing in innovations they want, and creating a new generation of entrepreneurs along the way.
- Low cost design makes ultrasound imaging affordable to the world
  
  An ultra-low cost scanner that can be plugged into any computer to show images of an unborn baby has been developed by Newcastle University engineers.
- Bacteria are social microorganisms: MIT researchers
  
  MIT scientists: Bacteria plays different social roles, including attacking and defending other bacteria
- Why software’s wealthiest should fund experimental technologies
  
  The former chief technology officer of Microsoft on why he's backing the nuclear energy startup TerraPower
- A real fMRI high: My ecstasy brain scan
  
  A New Scientist reporter experiences the highs, lows and psychedelic purple doors involved in taking MDMA while having his brain scanned
- New tool gives structural strength to 3D-printed objects
  
  Researchers at Purdue and Adobe’s Advanced Technology Labs have jointly developed a program that automatically imparts strength to objects before they are printed.
- Why We Need to Study the Brain’s Evolution in Order to Understand the Modern Mind
  
  The human brain’s evolutionary past is not just some cute story we can leave on the shelf if we so please. Every cell in our brains—every moment of our mental lives—is intimately connected to entire history of life on this planet.
- Who ordered that? An unexpected new particle shakes the Standard Model
  
  Evidence that a new light boson may exist has recently been published. Such a boson is not part of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics.
- The Most Comprehensive Review of the iPhone 5 Yet
  
  Apple's latest smartphone gets a bigger screen, LTE, and more power — but does it keep the crown?
- Taylor's Deal on iPhone 5 cases
  
  FREE iPhone 5 Social Pro Cases
- Pundit Taylor Barcroft's cellular choice for your iPhone
  
  Taylor is our all things Apple pundit, who says we can save beaucoup bucks with this company. See our recent chat with Taylor..
- Toyota unveils helpful Human Support Robot
  
  Toyota has unveiled a new assistant robot designed to help the disabled live more independently
- Our New Dr. Future Show KOMY Promo
  
  Check out our new 1 min promo for KOMY 1340 !!
September 8, 2012
- Spec-By-Spec Comparison: iPad vs. iPad Mini vs. Kindle Fire vs. Kindle Fire HD
  
  Which should you get? Check out the specs and pricing here..
- The Future Of Work In America
  
  Technology and the Web are destroying far more jobs than they create. We will need to develop a “Third Way” based on community rather than the Market or the State to adapt to this reality.
- Harnessing the power of wave motion
  
  The first commercially licensed grid-connected wave-energy device in the nation, designed by Ocean Power Technologies, is in its final weeks of testing before a planned launch in October.
- Visual Strategies
  
  A new book, Visual Strategies, by Felice C. Frankel and Angela H. DePace is “a guide to graphics for scientists and engineers, but it will be useful for anyone who wants to make clear presentations of data of any kind.
- Tweets used as earthquake warning system
  
  Seismologists using Twitter to detect tremors say the social network beat their own advanced equipment in spotting an earthquake off the Philippines.
- Video - Dava Newman: A better built space suit
  
  Catch Dava looking at the history of space suits and her design for a sporty Martian suit using a skin pressure approach adopted from early NASA experiments, from Pop Tech..
- Watch your back, Hasbro, 3D-printed games have arrived
  
  Ill Gotten Games‘ Pocket Tactics is the first open-source miniatures game designed to be manufactured on a 3D printer, Wired Design reports.
- California accelerates toward driverless highway of the future
  
  California on Wednesday stepped on the accelerator toward a futuristic highway filled with robot cars as the Legislature sent to Gov. Jerry Brown a bill that would allow driverless vehicles to hit the road later this decade.
- Live Audio Stream Tonight - “Birth of the Global Mind” by Tim O’Reilly
  
  “The history of civilization is a story of evolution in our ability to build complex ‘multicellular minds,‘” says Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media (books, conferences, foo camps, Maker Faires, Makemagazine.)
- Satellite time capsule for life on Earth
  
  Artist Trevor Paglen's project The Last Pictures sends into orbit a time capsule of photographs capturing life on Earth
- Experiments Scientists Would Do If They Lived Indefinitely
  
  What would scientists learn if they could run studies that lasted for hundreds or thousands of years—or more?
August 28, 2012
- Meet the inaugural class of startups that will step aboard ‘Yacht Combinator’
  
  Unreasonable at Sea, a floating incubator for tech startups, has selected its first group of companies to expand their business operations while cruising through the high seas.
- Web comic helps fuel donations to Tesla's NY lab
  
  A jolt of support from a popular Web cartoonist has re-energized a decades-long effort to restore a decrepit 110-year-old laboratory once used by Nikola Tesla, a visionary scientist who was a rival of Thomas Edison and imagined a world of free electricity
- Minding Your Body: Baby Steps Towards Quantum Tantra
  
  Quantum Tantra is Dr. Nick Herbert's long term project to discover a more intimate physics-based way of connecting with nature.
- Turing & Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel
  
  SF Writer Rudy Rucker gets really cool..
- Ants Have Used Internet Algorithms for Ages
  
  Scientists have discovered that certain harvester ants work the same way Internet protocols do
- Singularity University plans massive upgrade
  
  Singularity University is planning to exponentially advance itself, transforming from a provider of short supplemental classes into an innovation pipeline
- Stanford's new surfing robot opens ocean to exploration
  
  New robotic sensors expand the possibilities of ocean exploration, and a new iPad app brings sharks into your living room.
- IBM Envisions Watson as a Super-Siri for Businesses
  
  Bernie Meyerson, IBM’s vice president of innovation, envisions a voice-activated Watson that answers questions, like a supercharged version of Apple Inc.
August 21, 2012
- Nano-structures to realise hydrogen’s energy potential
  
  For the first time, engineers at the University of New South Wales have demonstrated that hydrogen can be released and reabsorbed from a promising storage material, overcoming a major hurdle to its use as an alternative fuel source.
- Unlocking a major secret of the brain
  
  McGill researchers uncover crucial link between hippocampus and prefrontal cortex (Dr. Future's alma mater, along with William Shatner)
- Need an Expert? Try the Crowd
  
  Posing a question or asking for help from a large group of people. Coined as a term in 2006, crowdsourcing has taken off in the internet era.
- All intelligence agents - check out Human Language Technology Conference 2012
  
  Facebook users has climbed from 680 million to over 900 million. Social media and “big data” have become the two most valuable new sources of open source intelligence. And the role of Human Language Technology (HLT) in intelligence acquisition is key!
- Apple in Talks to Build Cable Set-Top Box to Display Live Television
  
  The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has a set-top box in the works that would allow viewing of live cable television as well as other content.
- Crowdsourcing this: Can you solve the mystery of the encrypted Gauss payload?
  
  There are many remaining mysteries in the Gauss and Flame stories. For instance, how do people get infected with the malware? Or, what is the purpose of the uniquely named “Palida Narrow” font that Gauss installs?
- Flying cars: Grounded reality or ready for take off?
  
  Despite centuries of promise, flying cars remain largely confined to films and fiction. But a host of new projects hope to finally let them fly.
- Shelley, Stanford's robotic racecar, hits the track
  
  Stanford's self-driving Audi TTS, Shelley, hit 120 mph on a recent track test. Combined with new research on professional drivers' brain activity, the car's performance could get even better.
- Making cancer cells forget what they are to cease their deadly proliferation
  
  Jay Bradner believes that cancer can be defeated through control of epigenetics — and he is not shy about spreading the word.
- H.265 Coming To The Mac, iPhone & iPad As Soon As Next Year
  
  H.265 video, which will deliver video quality in half the file size of the old H.264 standard, and open the door for the Retina-quality video formats of the next ten years.
- Google’s Dremel Makes Big Data Look Small
  
  Mike Olson runs a company that specializes in the world’s hottest software. He’s the CEO of Cloudera, a Silicon Valley startup that deals in Hadoop, an open source software platform based on tech that turned Google into the most dominant force on the web.
- Stealthy, Tiny, Deadly, Global: The Drone Revolution’s Next Phase
  
  Drones are moving out to sea -- above it and below it. They're growing increasingly autonomous, no longer reliant on a pilot with a joystick staring at video feeds from their cameras.
- Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram
  
  A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data — around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times.
- Previously Unknown Cleaning System in Brain: Newer Imaging Technique Brings 'Glymphatic System' to Light
  
  A previously unrecognized system that drains waste from the brain at a rapid clip has been discovered by neuroscientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
- Rudy Rucker Resurrects a Lost Classic of Psychedelia
  
  Nick Herbert - "Wonderful review by Steve Silberman of Bill Craddock's "Be Not Content" as reissued by Rudy Rucker plus an extended meditation on the role of psychedelics in American culture."
- Study: Pot May Improve Cognitive Functioning in Bipolar Disorder
  
  Patients with bipolar I disorder performed better in neurocognitive assessments when they had a history of marijuana use
- Rover's Laser Instrument Zaps First Martian Rock
  
  Today, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity fired its laser for the first time on Mars, using the beam from a science instrument to interrogate a fist-size rock called "Coronation."
August 11, 2012
- Mars Rover Already Doing Science
  
  The uniform size of the small gravel at the surface suggests material carried from the crater rim by water rather than debris blown out of nearby smaller impact craters.
- Future foods: What will we be eating in 20 years' time?
  
  It's not immediately obvious what links Nasa, the price of meat and brass bands, but all three are playing a part in shaping what we will eat in the future and how we will eat it.
- Spider web glass protects birds on the Holy Island
  
  A special glass coating, inspired by spider webs, has been used in the UK for the first time.
- High-frequency trading and the $440m mistake
  
  Computers and clever maths enable traders to buy and sell in the blink of an eye. But does high-frequency trading make matters worse when things go wrong?
- New human species identified from Kenya fossils
  
  Researchers studying fossils from northern Kenya have identified a new species of human that lived two million years ago.
- CURIOSITY PREPARES FOR 'BRAIN TRANSPLANT'
  
  All the software Curiosity needed for the exciting entry, descent and landing (EDL) is now just surplus code taking up valuable memory.
- Why shopping will never be the same
  
  Hints of the future of retail are already being used every da
- Shady Shakespeare Theater Company
  
  Pericles - Shakespeare: The Final Frontier! This fresh production of Pericles takes our hero on an epic journey where no prince has gone before—into outer space.
July 17th, 2012
- Why powerlines confuse the internal compass
  
  Migratory birds and fish use the Earth’s magnetic field to find their way. LMU researchers have now identified cells with internal compass needles for the perception of the field – and can explain why high-tension cables perturb the magnetic orientation.
- Mechanical engineers develop an ‘intelligent co-pilot’ for cars
  
  Semiautonomous system takes the wheel to keep drivers safe.
- British GM crop scientists win $10m grant from Gates
  
  A team of British plant scientists has won a $10m (£6.4m) grant from the Gates Foundation to develop GM cereal crops.
- Can GM mosquitoes rid the world of a major killer?
  
  Dengue fever, borne by mosquitoes, kills around 20,000 people a year. Oxford-based scientists think they can solve the problem by disrupting breeding in high-risk areas with genetically modified insects.
- Ukrainian students develop gloves that translate sign language into speech
  
  Using a gloves fitted with flex sensors, touch sensors, gyroscopes and accelerometers a Ukrainian team in a Microsoft competition has built a system called EnableTalk that can translate sign language into text and then into spoken words.
- Solid-state terahertz devices could scan for cancer
  
  Cornell researchers have developed a new method of generating terahertz signals on an inexpensive silicon chip, offering possible applications in medical imaging, security scanning and wireless data transfer.
- How terahertz laser scanners will spy on you in airports
  
  Genia Photonics has developed a programmable picosecond laser that is capable of spotting trace amounts of a variety of substances, including explosives, chemical agents, and hazardous biological substances at up to 50 meters
- Toward new drugs for the human and non-human cells in people
  
  Almost 100 studies on a revolutionary approach to developing new medicines and treatments to target both the human and non-human components of people is reviewed in ACS’ Journal of Proteome Research.
- Spy planes help detect roadside bombs in Afghanistan
  
  Images from spy planes and sensors that detect wires that trigger explosives have helped to mitigate the No. 1 threat to U.S. troops in Afghanistan — roadside bombs — over the past year.
- America's new business model: Sharing
  
  he nation is in a sharing mood — and start-ups are capitalizing on it.
- Welcome to the Quantum Short Film Competition 2012
  
  The Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore invites entries for Quantum Shorts 2012 - a competition to produce the best short film inspired by quantum physics.
- Company offers first true smartphone for the blind
  
  British company Screenreader, has created what it calls the first true smartphone for the blind and those with vision impairments. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-07-company-true-smartphone-video.html#jCp
- Guest - Michael Gosney
  
  Michael Gosney is a veteran "new edge" media producer and impresario whose productions and events have defined the emergent integrative culture for 25 years
July 10, 2012
- Start-up attempts to convert Prof Hawking's brainwaves into speech
  
  An American scientist is to unveil details of work on the brain patterns of Prof Stephen Hawking which he says could help safeguard the physicist's ability to communicate.
- Ford predicts self-driving, traffic-reducing cars by 2017
  
  According to Ford the self-driving car will be here within five years, using technologies available today.
- Sharing data links in networks of cars
  
  A new algorithm lets networks of Wi-Fi-connected cars, whose layout is constantly changing, share a few expensive links to the Internet.
- Mobile-Phone Surveillance by Police Targets Millions Annually
  
  Mobile carriers responded to a staggering 1.3 million law enforcement requests last year for subscriber information, including text messages and phone location data.
- Programmable DNA scissors for genome editing
  
  Could lead to new tools for creating advanced biofuels and therapeutic drugs
- A new approach to water desalination
  
  Graphene sheets with precisely controlled pores have potential to purify water more efficiently than existing methods.
- Laser-activated nanoparticles produce medicine inside the body on demand
  
  Can be switched on when needed, producing medicines that cannot be taken orally or are toxic and would harm other parts of the body
- Acoustic tweezers manipulate cellular-scale objects with ultrasound
  
  A team of bioengineers and biochemists from Penn State University has demonstrated a device about the size of a dime that is capable of manipulating objects, including living materials such as blood cells and entire small organisms, using sound waves.
- Naked Mole Rat May Hold the Secret to Long Life
  
  Researchers in Israel and the U.S. are working to uncover the secret to the naked mole rat’s long — and active — lifespan.
- Missing star dust is a mystery to scientists
  
  Scientists theorize that either the dust fell into the star or that dust was blown out of the system by explosive impacts.
- How to make awesome movies and games in the same engine
  
  By utilizing the hardware rendering power of a modern gaming PC, the SFM allows storytellers to work in a what-you-see-is-what-you-get environment so they can iterate in the context of what it will feel like for the final audience.
- Adapting telescope mirror technology to capture solar energy
  
  University of Arizona (UA) researchers are continuing to improve groundbreaking technology to produce solar electricity at a price competitive with non-renewable energy sources.
- Disruptions: Next Step for Technology Is Becoming the Background
  
  The invention of the motion picture enabled visual storytelling and at a mass scale unimaginable before. The equivalent to that moment is happening right now with the advent of wearable computing.
- Transmedia- the future form of hi-tech story-telling!
  
  The present age of sophisticated technology for multiple media formats brings in a new entertainment concept called Transmedia Storytelling
- Regina Interview
  
  Our interview with a young dula following her passion in the new politics of today, including Occupy.
- The most honest 3 1/2 minutes of television
  
  A powerful view of America today
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July 3, 2012
- Dolphin genome yields evolutionary insights
  
  The recently sequenced genome of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) reveals commonalities with other large-brained mammals,
- How the Discovery of the Higgs Boson Could Break Physics
  
  Scientists have been secretly hoping all along that, when they finally found the Higgs, it would be an interesting particle with unexpected behaviors — even somewhat unruly. A perfectly well-behaved Higgs leaves less room for new, exciting physics
- Danielle Fong: how to store the world’s excess energy
  
  A company called LightSail Energy aims to store the world’s excess energy in giant tanks of compressed air.
- Leap 3D motion control system is 100 times more accurate than Kinect, will cost $69.99
  
  Leap Motion‘s motion-tracking system is more powerful, more accurate, smaller, cheaper, and just more impressive than Kinect.
- Laser beam guides lightning bolts to a ground target
  
  Scientists and engineers at the U.S Army’s Picatinny Arsenal are developing a device that can shoot lightning bolts down laser beams to destroy its target.
- Pasta-shaped radio waves beamed across Venice
  
  A group of Italian and Swedish researchers may have solved the problem of radio congestion by cleverly twisting radio waves into the shape of fusilli pasta, allowing a potentially infinite number of channels to be broadcast and received.
- Scientists twist light to send data at more than 2 terabits per second
  
  A multi-national team led by USC with researchers hailing from the U.S., China, Pakistan and Israel has developed a system of transmitting data using twisted beams of light at ultra-high speeds – up to 2.56 terabits per second.
- Why cancer rate increases with age (not mutations)
  
  It is the changing features of tissue in old age that promote higher cancer rates in the elderly, not the accumulation of cancer-causing mutations.
- Dr. Charles Buchanon bio
  
  Our guest today on the announcement of the Higgs Boson
- Media sources on the Higgs boson
  
  Your source of Higgs Info, including live coverage of the press conference on July 4
June 26, 2012
- Xbox 720 document leak reveals $299 console with Kinect 2 for 2013, Kinect Glasses project
  
  Microsoft is planning to introduce its $299 next-generation Xbox console ( ”Xbox 720″) in 2013, with improvements like SmartGlass, a Metro dashboard, Kinect 2 hardware, and Xbox TV apps,
- ArduSat: a real satellite mission that you can be a part of
  
  NanoSatisfi is launching a Kickstarter project to send an Arduino-powered satellite into space, and you can send an experiment along with it.
- Not Science Fiction Anymore: Mail.ru's Dmitry Grishin Launches $25M Robotics Fund
  
  Robotic technology is close to reaching a new phase of mainstream consumer adoption.
- 3D copying makes Michelangelos of the masses
  
  Cosmo Wenman went to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, took hundreds of pictures, documenting busts and reliefs from every accessible angle, and turned the photos into three-dimensional digital maps.
- Sequoia is the new world’s fastest supercomputer at 16 petaflops
  
  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)’s IBM Blue Gene/Q Sequoia supercomputer is the new world’s fastest high-performance computing system, at 16.32 sustained petaflops (quadrillion floating point operations per second.
- U.S. launches three biodefense centers
  
  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today awarded contracts for the creation of three new centers tasked with responding to the threat of future pandemics and biological attacks.
- Stanford's free online iPhone and iPad courses return with peer-to-peer help, a first for iTunes U
  
  Participants in the latest version of Stanford's popular iPhone and iPad apps online course will find help and inspiration 24 hours a day through Piazza, a peer-to-peer social learning site.
- Rudimentary liver grown in a Dish
  
  Japanese scientists have used induced stem cells to create a liver-like tissue in a dish.
- All things big and small: The brain's discerning taste for size
  
  New research shows brain has distinct regions for identifying different sized objects
- Simple mathematical pattern describes shape of neuron ‘jungle’
  
  University College London (UCL) neuroscientists have found that there is a simple pattern that describes the tree-like shape of all neurons.
- All-carbon solar cell harnesses infrared light
  
  New type of photovoltaic device harnesses heat radiation that most solar cells ignore.
- Why the sponge’s protosynapses never evolved into the real thing
  
  It was a mystery: sponges had evolved a protosynapse — the beginning of a nervous system — but never actually developed a real synapse.
- Largest Cyber Sting in History Nabs 24 on Four Continents
  
  An international cyber sting led by the FBI attracted criminals from around the world and led to 24 arrests in what is believed to be a multi-million online financial fraud case
June 19, 2012
- Rats use GPS to root out land mines
  
  Two Bucknell University professors are working with a U.S. Department of Defense contractor to develop faster and more sophisticated technology and methods to detect land mines
- America's Brainiest Cities
  
  The top five brainy clusters: Charlottesville Virginia, Lafayette Indiana, Anchorage Alaska, Madison Wisconsin, and the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose area
- Study predicts imminent irreversible planetary collapse
  
  Using scientific theories, toy ecosystem modeling and paleontological evidence as a crystal ball, 21 scientists predict we’re on a much worse collision course with Mother Nature than currently thought.
- Bing likes Britannica, Bruno burns
  
  Microsoft has announced a deal with Encyclopaedia Britannica to add entries from the prestigious reference work to Bing search results.
- Hong Kong: Home to the World’s Cheapest 3D Printer
  
  For the last six months, the Atlanta native and his team of six have been working on the MakiBox, an easy-to-assemble 3D printer that will retail for about $300.
- Making your own copies of the Met’s masterpieces with a 3D printer
  
  A group of 3D printing enthusiasts from the MakerBot community has visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and scanned 34 sculptures with 3D capture software loaded on their phones,
- New statistical model lets patient’s past forecast future ailments
  
  Analyzing medical records from thousands of patients, statisticians have devised a statistical model for predicting what other medical problems a patient might encounter called a “hierarchical association rule model.”
- Ann Arbor to use V2V tech to prevent car crashes
  
  The University of Michigan will outfit 3,000 drivers with V2V devices to study the technology's reliability and efficacy in preventing car crashes
- New energy source for future medical implants: sugar
  
  Implantable fuel cell built at MIT could power neural prosthetics that help patients regain control of limbs.
- SOPA opponents unveil "Digital Bill of Rights"
  
  The “Digital Bill of Rights” debuted at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City on Monday
- Phil Zimmermann's post-PGP project: privacy for a price
  
  Phil Zimmermann released PGP for free, but he's planning to charge about $20 a month for his new Silent Circle encryption service. It's unlikely to be applauded by encryption-wary law enforcement agencies.
- Cassini sees tropical lakes on Saturn moon
  
  May produce "interesting" molecules like amino acids, the building blocks of life
- UCSB scientists synthesize first genetically evolved semiconductor material
  
  UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) scientists have, for the first time, used genetic engineering and molecular evolution to direct the enzymatic synthesis of a semiconductor.
- ‘Cognitive radio’ works across wide range of spectrum at high speeds
  
  a presidential advisory committee has urged President Obama to issue an executive order to adopt new “cognitive” or “agile” radio technologies to make better use of a huge swath of the radio spectrum now controlled by federal agencies.
- Happy or sad? You might not see that ad, if Microsoft Kinect can figure out your mood
  
  Microsoft has applied for a patent for targeting ads to users based on their emotional state, using a Kinect type device
- NIH Human Microbiome Project defines normal bacterial makeup of the body
  
  Genome sequencing creates first reference data for microbes living with healthy adults
- 'Hippie chimp' genome sequenced
  
  Genetic sequence could solve mystery of why bonobos are more peaceful than other chimpanzees.
June 12, 2012
- Apple Unveils New MacBooks, iOS 6, and New Mountain Lion Features
  
  Apple still wowed the hardcore faithful.
- The six best new iOS 6 features for business users
  
  It's official: Apple iOS 6 is coming this fall, and with it some 200 updates and improvements
- iOS 6 vs. Ice Cream Sandwich: The Ultimate Comparison
  
  How does Apple's latest and greatest compare to the latest and greatest out of the Android camp, a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich?
- The Aliens Would Win
  
  Here, Shostak, senior astronomer with the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., offers five points about aliens that don't cut it in Hollywood
- How would you like a graduate degree for $100?
  
  Getting a master’s degree might cost just $100 from education startup Udacity, says Google Fellow and Udacity co-founder Sebastian Thrun.
- Ray Bradbury dies: Science-fiction author of ‘Fahrenheit 451’ and ‘Martian Chronicles’ was 91
  
  The beloved writer who who transformed the genre of flying saucers and little green men into literature exploring childhood terrors, colonialism and the erosion of individual thought, died June 5 in Los Angeles. He was 91.
- Senate: Drones Need to Operate “Freely and Routinely” In U.S.
  
  The integration of drones, or unmanned aerial systems (UAS), into the National Airspace System (NAS) needs to be expedited, the Senate Armed Services Committee said in its report on the FY2013 defense authorization bill last week
- Millions of LinkedIn passwords reportedly leaked online
  
  A hacker says he's posted 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords on the Web -- hot on the heels of security researchers' warnings about privacy issues with LinkedIn's iOS app.
- Giants of Web Activate New Internet Address Book
  
  a number of internet giants — Google and AT&T and Comcast and Facebook, to name a few — are turning on new gear that will help solve a very big problem.
June 05, 2012
- Scientists Show DNA Can Be Reprogrammed by Words and Frequencies
  
  THE HUMAN DNA IS A BIOLOGICAL INTERNET and superior in many aspects to the artificial one.
- San Andreas Fault in Santa Cruz Mountains – large quakes more frequent than previously thought
  
  Recent paleoseismic work has documented four surface-rupturing earthquakes that occurred across the Santa Cruz Mountains section of the San Andreas Fault (SAF) in the past 500 years.
- Ketamine improved bipolar depression within minutes
  
  A new study in Biological Psychiatry this week confirms that a single dose of ketamine produced rapid antidepressant effects in depressed patients with bipolar disorder.
- Mars One plans to establish human settlement on Mars in 2023
  
  Help wanted: astronaut. Must be willing to relocate to Mars — permanently. Hire date: 2013. Benefits: make history, start new planetary civilization, star in reality TV show. No return ticket...
- Craig Venter’s bugs might save the world
  
  Inside the laboratories of biotechnology, a literal possibility of artificial life is taking hold: What if machines really were alive?
- Stanford University’s president predicts the death of the lecture hall as university education moves online
  
  Stanford University’s president predicts the death of the lecture hall as university education moves online
- Sal Khan’s ‘Academy’ sparks a tech revolution in education
  
  Last year, a number of schools began “flipping” their classrooms, having students study Khan videos by night and do homework with teachers by day.
- Volvo Introduces Self-Driving Road Train on Public Roads in Spain
  
  Volvo’s autonomous cars travel 124 miles in Spain in ‘road train’
- California's taking the lead on self-driving cars
  
  Intrigued by the idea of eliminating human error from driving, a California legislator has introduced a bill to clarify that driverless cars are street legal. Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/03/4534103/californias-taking-the-lead-on.html#st
- Venus transit app lets users track the planet's rare voyage
  
  With this app you can see Venus transverse the sun. And a new app called VenusTransit can help you record this "last such opportunity in our lifetimes."
- THE STAGES OF THE TRANSIT OF VENUS EXPLAINED
  
  The marathon event lasts nearly seven hours and includes a handful of key events.
- The Slooh Telescope
  
  See all kinds of celestial events including today's Venus Transit
May 29, 2012
- Glimpsing the Future Science of Pleasure
  
  Researchers may soon be exploring new ways to enhance sensory sensitivity and create a science devoted to happiness, fun and pleasure.
- Triggers transforms your iPhone into an IFTTT-like gadget
  
  Triggers turns your iPhone into a notifier, a motion or sound activated flashlight, a mini-strobe light, and more.
- GRAHAM REZNICK'S FIVE FAVORITE REALITY BENDING SCI-FI FILMS
  
  This summer sees the release of several exciting science fiction films, some of which are steeped in the realm of the psychedelic (BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW) or the otherworldly unsettling (PROMETHEUS). In honor of the recent trend, here’s a look at five .
- A new legal high goes on sale every week, says EU drugs agency
  
  Centre monitors new laboratory-made psychoactive substances that mimic effects of cannabis, amphetamine and ecstasy
- Groups concerned over arming of domestic drones
  
  “Drone manufacturers are considering offering police the option of arming these remote-controlled aircraft with (nonlethal for now) weapons like rubber bullets, Tasers, and tear gas,”
- Device may inject a variety of drugs without using needles
  
  Jet-injected drugs could improve patient compliance, reduce accidental needle sticks.
- Robotic fish to patrol for pollution in harbours
  
  In the shallow waters of Gijon harbour, in northern Spain, a large, yellow fish cuts through the waves.
- Leap Motion: 3D hands-free motion control, unbound
  
  sub-millimeter accuracy at user fingertips, offers control gestures like pinch-to-zoom, and promises new applications that make the Kinect and its kin look like yesterday's news.
- New Details About Apple’s Upcoming ‘Spaceship’ Campus Revealed
  
  Remember Apple’s futuristic “spaceship” campus? Well, it looks like it’s gone beyond the fancy renderings stage to the ask-the-neighbors-for-permission stage.
- Robot Boats Survive Epic Voyage Across the Pacific — So Far
  
  There’s a world record for “greatest distance by an autonomous wave-powered vehicle” at stake
- Germany sets new solar power record
  
  German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour - equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity
- Max Planck Florida Institute Study Shows: Persistent Sensory Experience Is Good For The Aging Brain
  
  Changes in sensory experience can cause massive rewiring of the brain, even as one ages
- Meet ‘Flame,’ The Massive Spy Malware Infiltrating Iranian Computers
  
  A massive, highly sophisticated piece of malware has been newly found infecting systems in Iran and elsewhere and is believed to be part of a well-coordinated, ongoing, state-run cyberespionage operation.
May 22, 2012
- SpaceX In Orbit – Successful Launch of Falcon 9 Rocket
  
  Today’s successful flight marks the third of the Falcon 9 rocket, the second flight of the Dragon capsule, and the first flight for a commercial spacecraft bound for the International Space Station (ISS).
- Facebook Falls Again in Third Day of Trading
  
  Shares of Facebook fell again on Tuesday, the social network giant’s third day as a public company, tumbling nearly 8 percent in morning trading.
- Google+ will continue to grow whether people actually use it or not
  
  Now that Facebook is a $100 billion company, it doesn’t hurt Google to be number two in that space.
- Comcast Kills Its 250GB Data Cap, Is Testing More Flexible Data Plans
  
  Comcast is doing away with its 250 GB data cap, and will be moving to test out new plans will charge customers based on usage, rather than cutting them off.
- NASA Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
  
  There are roughly 4,700 Potential Hazardous Asteroids, plus or minus 1,500, with diameters larger than 330 feet (about 100 meters). So far, an estimated 20 to 30 percent of these objects have been found.
- Dartmouth researchers are learning how exercise affects the brain
  
  Exercise clears the mind. It gets the blood pumping and more oxygen is delivered to the brain. This is familiar territory, but Dartmouth's David Bucci thinks there is much more going on.
- Microsoft's New Social Network, So.cl: It's Like Google+ for Wonks
  
  File this in the "we-try-it-out-so-you-don't-have-to" category. So.cl is a derivative social network that may be useful to students, but it won't fly elsewhere.
- Coffee drinkers have lower risk of death: NIH study
  
  Older adults who drank coffee — caffeinated or decaffeinated — had a lower risk of death overall than others who did not drink coffee.
- Connected sky: Surfing the web above the clouds
  
  A recent deal between the British satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat and one of the biggest global aviation suppliers, Honeywell, may help give in-flight connectivity speed a boost
- Plastic-Eating Fungi Found In The Amazon May Solve World’s Waste Problem
  
  A group of students and professors from Yale University have found a fungi in the Amazon rainforest that can degrade and utilize the common plastic polyurethane (PUR).
- iOS 6: Apple drops Google Maps, debuts in-house ‘Maps’ with incredible 3D mode
  
  Apple will drop the Google Maps program running on iOS since 2007 in favor for a new Maps app with an Apple backend.
- MIT creates amazing UI from levitating orbs
  
  IT’S MORE THAN SOME PARLOR TRICK; THIS DEMO COULD BE THE FUTURE OF USER INTERFACE.
- Getting in Tune: Researchers Solve Tuning Problem For Wireless Power Transfer Systems
  
  Researchers from North Carolina State University (NC State) have developed a new way to fine-tune wireless power transfer (WPT) receivers, making the systems more efficient and functional.
- Introducing Google’s Knowledge Graph
  
  Google has launched the Knowledge Graph, which it says will help you discover new information quickly and easily
- Nasa trains astronauts for asteroid mission
  
  NASA is training a team of astronauts to land on an asteroid to explore its surface, search for minerals, and even learn the skills they may need to destroy it should one pose a threat to the Earth.
- Telomerase Gene Therapy increase mice lifespan by 24% without increasing cancer
  
  The first anti-aging therapy potentially applicable in humans that acts directly on the genes
- The Folding Kayak
  
  As seen at the Maker Faire and in our Blog
- The helicopter motorcycle
  
  As seen in our Blog and at the Maker Faire
- The First public biolab in the Bay Area - bioCurious
  
  As heard in our Blog and seen at the Maker Faire
- Makey Makey
  
  An invention kit for everyone, as seen at the Maker Faire
- Making Bili Lights for Premies
  
  A crowd sourced creation of tech to save the lives of premie babies, as seen at the Maker Faire
- ARE 2012
  
  Augmented Reality Conference this last week
May 15, 2012
- Google+ Hangouts On Air: broadcast your conversation to the world
  
  If you have something to say, you can now go live in front of a global audience.
- Nanosheet Catalyst Discovered to Sustainably Split Hydrogen from Water
  
  Low-cost non-noble electrocatalyst efficiently generates hydrogen gas for fuel
- Real-world beaming: The risk of avatar and robot crime
  
  First it was the telephone, then web cameras and Skype, now remote "presence" is about to take another big step forward -
- ‘Dolphin speaker’ to enhance study of dolphin vocalizations and acoustics
  
  A new speaker capable of projecting dolphins’ communication sounds, whistles, burst-pulse sounds, as well as detection sounds such as echolocation clicks.
- Why Google's self-driving car may save lives
  
  And "driver assistance" technologies are already helping to lower traffic deaths in cars you can buy now.
- Physicists Store Short Movie In A Cloud of Gas
  
  Researchers have been able to store single images in a cloud of rubidium atoms for several years. Now they've gone a step further
- Mammography without X-rays, using photoacoustic technique
  
  photoacoustics can detect and visualize breast tumors at higher contrast than X-rays and MRI while avoiding ionizing radiation and toxic contrast agents…
- The Loneliness Scare
  
  Isolation Isn’t a Growing Problem
- Pirate island attracts more than 100 startup tenants
  
  More than 100 international tech companies have registered their interest in floating geek city Blueseed, to be launched next year in international waters outside of Silicon Valley.
- Scripps Research Institute Scientists Show How a Gene Duplication Helped our Brains Become 'Human'
  
  Could an extra copy of a brain-development gene that appeared in our ancestors’ genomes about 2.4 million years ago have allowed maturing neurons to migrate farther and develop more connections?
- Sirius - It Is Time for You to Know
  
  Dr. Steven Greer, founder of the worldwide Disclosure Movement and the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence is working with Emmy award winning filmmaker Amardeep Kaleka to produce a groundbreaking documentary.
- 5 Myths About Canada’s Health Care System
  
  The truth may surprise you
- Can social media solve the US healthcare crisis?
  
  The creation of a social media videoconferencing platform geared towards healthcare might pave the way for enhanced use of social media in the world of healthcare
- New type of retinal prosthesis could restore sight to blind
  
  Using tiny solar-panel-like cells surgically placed underneath the retina, scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a system that may someday restore sight to people who have lost vision.
- Harnessing the awesome power of the ocean waves
  
  MBARI's wave-power buoy at Moss Landing
May 8, 2012
- How A Private Data Market Could Ruin Facebook
  
  The growing interest in a market for personal data that shares profits with the individuals who own the data could change the business landscape for companies like Facebook
- EV's Holy Grail: 500 Miles on a Single Charge
  
  Major research initiatives sometimes begin with a startling revelation.
- Citizen science enters a new era
  
  From China to the Congo, a new wave of volunteer science projects aims to allow amateur participants to actively gather data for the benefit of their communities.
- Radio waves switch on genes for non-invasive treatments
  
  Nanoparticles heated by radio waves switch on genes in mice
- Robot cars get ready to roll
  
  You may soon be sharing the road with intelligent, self-driving cars that promise to save time, fuel, cut traffic jams and prevent accidents.
- Hubble to use the Moon to view the upcoming Transit of Venus
  
  Astronomers plan to use the rare cosmic occurrence to analyze the sunlight passing through Venus' atmosphere to capture the fingerprint of its makeup.
- Your next mayor: A computer
  
  Technology is helping cities control everything from traffic to disease. But who should control the technology?
- Study finds psychopaths have distinct brain structure
  
  Scientists who scanned the brains of men convicted of murder, rape and violent assaults have found the strongest evidence yet that psychopaths have structural abnormalities in their brains.
- The open source problem solvers creating government 2.0
  
  Meet the new breed of technologist who's hacking the government at every level to make it work better for you
- Scientists Estimate Dinosaurs Passed Enough Gas To Warm Up The Planet
  
  So the dino-killing asteroid is still the leading theory for their demise, but their farts, which this study found amounted to 520 million metric tons a year and 2,675 liters a day, were "a key factor in the warm climate 150 millions years ago," -BBC
- First 'Microsubmarines' Designed to Help Clean Up Oil Spills
  
  Self-propelled “microsubmarines” designed to pick up droplets of oil from contaminated waters
- Study resolves controversy on life-extending red wine ingredient, restores hope for anti-aging pill
  
  A new study supports the hypothesis that the metabolic benefits of the red wine ingredient known as resveratrol are largely due to its actions on the SIRT1 gene.
- Robot sensing and smartphones help blind navigate
  
  University in Paris engineers have developed a 3D navigation system for the blind using a pair of glasses equipped with cameras and sensors like those used in robot exploration.
- Single nanomaterial yields many laser colors
  
  Engineers at Brown University and QD Vision Inc. have created nanoscale single crystals that can produce the red, green, or blue laser light needed in digital displays.
- Guest - Dr. Eric Pearl, author of The Reconnection, Heal Others, Heal Yourself
  
  The story of a chiropractor who discovered miraculous healing..
May 1, 2012
- Vessel Sets Sail in Search of Tsunami Debris
  
  On Tuesday, the Sea Dragon set sail from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific on the first leg of the expedition.
- This $20 Trillion Rock Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’s Richest Company
  
  The total payout from one unassuming asteroid? $20,000,000,000,000.
- Planetary Resources believes asteroid mining has come of age
  
  a new paradigm for resource utilization that will bring the solar system within humanity’s economic sphere of influence
- Space Law: Is Asteroid Mining Legal?
  
  Can a private company claim ownership of an asteroid based on sending a probe out to it?
- Enzymes grow artificial DNA
  
  Synthetic strands with different backbones replicate and evolve just like the real thing.
- Breakout Labs Announces First Grantees
  
  The projects involve digital brain reconstruction, reversible cryopreservation, human cell re-engineering, universal airborne contaminant detection, artificial protein therapeutics, and antimatter-based fuel.
- Intel's Ivy Bridge arrives: Here's what you need to know
  
  Do Intel's new third-gen Core i-series CPUs mean you should run out and buy a new laptop or desktop today? Not so fast!
- Designing the Shape of TV to Come
  
  the distinction between televisions and other network devices has to go.
- Google Drive's Six Substantial Slip-ups
  
  We've rounded up some of the larger criticisms that might be keeping Drive from dominating, all areas that Google could stand to work on if it wants the prettiest cloud in the sky.
- Researchers Develop A Path To Liquid Solar Cells That Can Be Printed Onto Surfaces
  
  USC scientists have developed a potential pathway to cheap, stable solar cells made from nanocrystals so small they can exist as a liquid ink and can be painted or printed onto clear surfaces.
- New harvesting approach boosts energy output from bacteria
  
  A novel energy system that increases the amount of energy harvested from microbial fuel cells (MFCs) by more than 70 times has been developed by University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) scientists.
- High Resolution Imaging of Milky Way captures a billion stars
  
  Scientists have produced a colossal picture of our Milky Way Galaxy, to reveal the detail of a billion stars.
- Through a glass, clearly
  
  MIT researchers find a way to make glass that’s anti-fogging, self-cleaning and free of glare.
- Printable Spacecraft May Flutter Down on Alien Worlds
  
  The onslaught of ultra-tiny technology is giving rise to one chip “printable spacecraft” consisting of electronic circuits, power generation, sensing, fluid handling, propulsion, telecommunications and mobility subsystems
- Gigabit Home WiFi? 802.11ac router makes it possible, starting in May
  
  Netgear is poised to be the first networking company with a next-generation router on the market—one that has been shown to reach speeds of up to 1.3Gbps in the 5GHz band
- German Village Produces 321% More Energy Than It Needs!
  
  The small agricultural village in the state of Bavaria is generating an impressive $5.7 million in annual revenue from renewable energy.
- CISPA, the Senate, and what should be done
  
  a simple, easily digestible picture of where we are in regards to CISPA, what might happen next, and what should be done.
- 30 specialist (and super smart) search engines
  
  Here’s a collection of 3o vertical search engines which you should have up your sleeve when you need some specialist power.
- The Home 3-D Printer Is More Real Than Ever--And Costs As Much As An iPad
  
  it's likely that 3-D printing will happen in your home sooner rather than later.
- Microsoft And Barnes & Noble's Nook Hook Up For Hot E-Book Action
  
  Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have just revealed their plans to form a B&N subsidiary. It will cost Microsoft $300 million for a 17.5% stake
- An Australian billionaire is to build the Titanic II, an exact replica, in China. Seriously.
  
  An Australian billionaire wants the legend of the Titanic to live on, so instead of raising it, he intends to build an exact replica of the ill-fated cruise-liner and will call it the Titanic II — setting sail in just over four years time.
- The Santa Cruz Film Festival May 10-19, 2012
  
  We have Elizabeth Gummere, director of this year's Fest, in studio today to give us a taste of this year's offerings.
April 24, 2012
- 'Huge' water resource exists under Africa
  
  Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater.
- No Evidence of Dark Matter Around the Sun
  
  astronomers were able to map the motion of hundreds of stars around the sun, calculating the mass of material in the vicinity and finding no evidence of dark matter.
- New Asteroid Mining Company May Solve World’s Economic Problems
  
  This Tuesday, a group of billionaires and former NASA scientists will announce Planetary Resources Inc., the first asteroid mining company in history.
- Sound-cloaking acoustic metamaterials are on the way
  
  New materials that have the potential to create acoustically shielded environments may be on the way.
- Princeton, Stanford, UMichigan and Penn to Offer Online Classes via Coursera
  
  Top-Tier Institutions Choose Coursera to Reach Millions Worldwide
- Google Drive detailed: 5 GB for free, launching next week for Mac, Windows, Android and iOS
  
  Taking on Dropbox, Google’s upcoming Google Drive service will offer 5 GB of free storage
- Google on track to outspend banks, big tobacco in lobbying
  
  Google spent $5.03 million on lobbying in the first quarter of the year
- The innovation we need to see before eBooks can completely replace pBooks
  
  substance over form and content over carrier.
- Android Is Suddenly In A Lot Of Trouble
  
  It appears as though the operating system is in choppy waters, and is suddenly facing a lot of trouble.
- Introducing the David 8 - The Next Generation Weyland Robot
  
  Launching June 8 on the PROMETHEUS
- The Tech Challenge at the Tech Museum in San Jose
  
  This year's challenge was for student teams to build a robotic system that would quickly rescue someone who fell off a bridge.
- Cisco's Corporate Social Responsibility website
  
  The division of CISCO that sponsored this year's Tech Challenge at The Tech Museum in San Jose.
- Tech Challenge interview with Tim Ritchie and Ricardo Benavidez
  
  Tim Ritchie is President of the Tech Museum and Ricardo Benavidez is Senior Manager of Community Relations at Cisco.
- Cupertino High School Girls Team in this year's "The Tech Challenge"
  
  The team is named "CRACK CITY," spelling out the girl's names, Christina, Rebecca, Annie, Colleen,Kosheen
- Imagination at work: Youths compete in Tech Challenge
  
  Embracing risk, the cheerful contraptions -- designed to pluck survivors from a model of an earthquake-ravaged Golden Gate Bridge -- lost wheels. Catapults crashed and spindles sank. Motors quit. Balloons burst. Tape snapped
April 17, 2012
- There are now six free online courses at Udacity U!
  
  The world's newest highly advanced online University
- New MRI Technique May Predict Progress of Dementias
  
  Computer Modeling Supports Theory That Many Dementias Spread Like Prion Diseases
- The Dark Side of Working Nights
  
  Pulling frequent all-nighters, experiencing jet lag, and working night shifts can lead to diabetes in more than one way.
- The tiny, lethal weapon that viruses use to kill bacteria
  
  EPFL scientists have measured a one-nanometer needle-like tip that some viruses use to attack bacteria.
- Cooperation and the evolution of intelligence
  
  Trinity College researchers have constructed an artificial neural network model that demonstrates that human intelligence evolved from the need for social teamwork.
- Scientists and bankers — a new model army
  
  Bankers must now surrender more information on their activities. Scientists should use it to build better system-wide financial models
- Earth Ejecta Could Have Seeded Life on Europa
  
  Life-carrying rocks ejected from Earth by asteroid impacts could have made their way to Jupiter and beyond, say astronomers
- Where is intelligence located in the brain?
  
  Researchers use brain injury data to map intelligence in the brain
- SCANSTIK– World's smallest full page color scanner
  
  Pen-sized, fast and easy to use, ScanStik is the most compact, sleek designed full page color scanner available on the market
- Printable Houses and the Future Opportunity Therein
  
  One construction technology that has great potential for low-cost, customized buildings is “contour crafting — a form of 3D printing that uses robotic arms and nozzles to squeeze out layers of concrete or other materials
- Vintage Mike Wallace Interview with Rod Serling
  
  If you were ever a Twilight Zone / Rod Serling fan, this vintage Mike Wallace interview with Rod is quite engaging..
- NASA deems SpaceX Dragon worthy of the ISS, locks in April 30th launch date
  
  NASA announced that all is well with SpaceX's Dragon capsule, and that an April 30 flight to the International Space Station (ISS) is possible.
- MGM delivers 600 movies to YouTube and Google Play, gives you one more place to watch Robocop
  
  MGM has struck a deal with the folks in Mountain View to bring 600 of its titles to the streaming services
- Google's Sergey Brin: Facebook and Apple a threat to Internet freedom
  
  Google co-founder Sergey Brin said that the openness and accessibility that led to the creation of the Internet is under serious threat.
- Battle for the Internet
  
  The Guardian is taking stock of the new battlegrounds for the internet. From states stifling dissent to the new cyberwar front line, we look at the challenges facing the dream of an open internet
- Smell like a MacBook Pro with this new perfume - yes, really
  
  Have you ever opened an Apple MacBook Pro box, inhaled and thought, "If I only I could smell like the inside of this box, I'd be the coolest person ever"?
- Pirate Parties in Prague set sails for Europe-wide political success
  
  What started as a Swedish protest movement against the criminalisation of file-sharing has grown into a tangible political body, setting its sights on continent-wide success in the 2014 European Parliament elections.
- Impressions From The Pirate Parties International Conference
  
  the growth of the Pirate Party movement outperforms my wildest dreams.
- Happy 35th birthday, Apple II
  
  The Apple II was unveiled 35 years ago, and it ushered in the home computing revolution
- Designing the interplanetary web
  
  Reliable Internet access on the Moon, near Mars, or for astronauts on a space station are some of the pioneering technologies that the European Space Agency (ESA) is working on for future exploration missions.
- April 17, 1790: America Loses One of Its Most Inventive Minds
  
  1790: Benjamin Franklin dies.
- Q&A: Pebble Smartwatch Designer Talks $3 Million-Plus Kickstarter Success
  
  Pebble smartwatch, which launched on Kickstarter last week, has already raised more than $3.2 million. And it still has 32 days to go.
- Is there a Japanese plan to evacuate 40 million people? [Disinformation]
  
  Russian diplomats were “stunned” after being told by their Japanese counterparts that upwards of 40 million of their peoples were in “extreme danger” of life-threatening radiation poisoning and could very well likely be faced with forced evacuations away
- Guest - Dr. Bruce Damer
  
  Bruce brings us up to date on a few of his latest world adventures exploring life, the universe, and everything in it.
April 10, 2012
- Minerva Project Scores $25 Million In Seed Money To Build A New Elite University Online
  
  Could the next Ivy League grow online?
- Canada To Launch Its Own Version Of BitCoin Called MintChip
  
  Introducing MintChip, a digital form of currency that enables value transactions in the cloud.
- Company Muse Makes Your Job Search Less Sucky
  
  Typically, you don't know what it feels like to work at a company until you actually start the job. A new website wants to fix that.
- DARPA's next Grand Challenge to focus on humanoid robots
  
  For robots that are human-like enough to navigate rough terrain, drive a vehicle and manipulate regular tools
- Google co-founder Sergey Brin spotted wearing Project Glass prototype IRL
  
  spotted by tech pundits Robert Scoble and Thomas Hawk rocking a prototype at a Dining in the Dark charity event for the Foundation Fighting Blindness
- Chocolate printer to go on sale after Easter
  
  The UK scientists who developed a prototype chocolate printer last year say they have now perfected it.
- Mystery of Human Consciousness Illuminated: Primitive Consciousness Emerges First as You Awaken from Anesthesia
  
  The emergence of consciousness was found to be associated with activations of deep, primitive brain structures rather than the evolutionary younger neocortex.
- A new dimension for solar energy
  
  Innovative 3-D designs from an MIT team can more than double the solar power generated from a given area.
- Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation
  
  WikiLeaks may be planning to escape its legal troubles, says Fox News, by putting its servers on Sealand, a World War II anti-aircraft platform seven miles off the English coast in the North Sea
- Listen to Dr. Future with Java Fit!
  
  Our sponsor Java Fit, a somewhat unconventional commercial made by Dr.Mrs. Future, with Dr. Eliot Handelman as "Flower"
- New animation on how the Titantic actually sank
  
  Check out this remarkable animation of the final hours of the Titantic, with explanation by James Cameron.
- India's $35 tablet getting new hardware, Android 4.0
  
  The $35 Aakash 2 will ship in two to three weeks
- Commodore founder Jack Tramiel dies at 83
  
  Jack Tramiel, a huge figure in computer history and founder of Commodore, died on Sunday at the age of 83
- Free Flashback Checker finds out if your Mac is infected
  
  Free Flashback Checker finds out if your Mac is infected
- TEENS GIVE UP THE WHEEL
  
  The days of teens yearning to get behind the wheel may be on the wane as online social networking replaces cars as the technological focal point for young adults.
- Proposed Satellite Would Beam Solar Power to Earth
  
  this project would make possible the construction of huge platforms from tens of thousands of small elements that can deliver remotely and affordably tens to thousands of megawatts using wireless power transmission to markets on Earth
- Handheld plasma flashlight rids skin of bacteria instantly
  
  a handheld, battery-powered plasma-producing device that can rid skin of bacteria in an instant.
- Richard Clarke on Who Was Behind the Stuxnet Attack Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Richard-Clarke-on-Who-Was-Behind-the-Stuxnet-Attack.html#ixzz1rf8TlmuI
  
  The United States created the Stuxnet cyberworm attack on Iran’s nuclear fuel enrichment facility, says former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke.
- Quantum computer built inside a diamond
  
  Computer breaks new ground by incorporating a method of protecting against the noise that fouls up quantum systems
- All in a day’s work: Design and print your own robot
  
  MIT project, funded with $10 million NSF grant, could transform robotic design and production
- LHC smashes particle collision record
  
  Just after midnight local time on 5 April, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, based near Geneva, Switzerland, shattered its own world record by smashing protons together with a combined energy of 8 teraelectronvolts (TeV).
- Why Woodpeckers Don't Get Concussions
  
  Woodpeckers' head-pounding pecking against trees and telephone poles subjects them to enormous forces — they can easily slam their beaks against wood with a force 1,000 times that of gravity.
- Reflection on the $1Billion Instagram acquisition by Facebook
  
  Instagram thrived because Flickr dropped the ball on mobile. Badly
- Free Virtual Telesummit about December 2012
  
  The Maya have asked to share their ancestral understanding of this time with their own voice.
- Biodiesel plant to bring jobs, sales taxes; CEO says use of new technology will put Watsonville 'on the map'
  
  WATSONVILLE - A cattle rancher and a fuel producer are teaming up to turn animal fat into 65,000 gallons of biodiesel daily at a $6 million plant on the city's west side.
- Guest - Richard Sundance Owen
  
  On the Gyre Cleanup and the TrashNFashion Show
April 3, 2012
- From Big Bang to Big Data: ASTRON and IBM Collaborate to Explore Origins of the Universe
  
  IBM and ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, have announced an initial 32.9 million EURO, five-year collaboration to research extremely fast, but low-power exascale computer systems for the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA).
- Dead stars 'to guide spacecraft'
  
  German scientists are developing a technique that allows for very precise positioning anywhere in space by picking up X-ray signals from pulsars.
- Oscillating Gel Acts Like Artificial Skin, Giving Robots Potential Ability to 'Feel'
  
  A gel can be resuscitated in a fashion similar to a medical cardiopulmonary resuscitation, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have demonstrated.
- 'Backpacking' Bacteria Help Ferry Nano-Medicines Inside Humans
  
  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120329225228.htm
- Artificial synapses could lead to advanced computer memory and machines that mimic biological brains
  
  In a step toward computers that mimic the parallel processing of complex biological brains, researchers from HRL Laboratories, LLC, and the University of Michigan have built a type of artificial synapse
- WE’RE WATCHING U.
  
  More colleges offering courses in ‘hot’ drone field as students drawn to sky’s-the-limit salaries
- Many billions of rocky planets in the habitable zones around red dwarfs in the Milky Way
  
  There could be many billions of planets not much bigger than Earth circling faint stars in our galaxy
- Police: Blind Driver's Trip in Google's Self-Driving Car Was Legal
  
  Google's video showing a blind man taking a ride to a Taco Bell in a self-driving car was legal, according to Google
- The Colbert Report On Tacocopter
  
  Stephen Wants His Tacos Delivered By Aerial Drone Helicopter
- ‘Smart sand’ can self-assemble to duplicate parts or create new tools
  
  Heaps of “smart sand” that can assume any shape, allowing spontaneous formation of new tools or duplication of broken mechanical parts.
- Evidence That Human Ancestors Used Fire One Million Years Ago
  
  Microscopic traces of wood ash, alongside animal bones and stone tools, were found in a layer dated to one million years ago at the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa.
- Cool or fool? Which of these news stories are fake?
  
  figure out which of these stories are fake or real.
- Bonobo chat
  
  An app for talking with Apes..
March 27, 2012
- Hippies head for Noah’s Ark: Queue here for rescue aboard alien spaceship
  
  Thousands of New Agers descend on mountain they see as haven from December's apocalypse
- Messenger Results: Mercury is a Giant Ball of Iron
  
  The MESSENGER probe‘s latest findings, 57 papers presented two days ago at conference, bring new weirdness to our understanding of the planet closest to the Sun.
- Will Resurrecting a Mammoth Be Possible?
  
  South Korea’s Sooam Bioengineering Research Institute signed an agreement Tuesday with Russia’s North-Eastern Federal University to clone a mammoth
- Crowdfunded science projects
  
  Got a cool idea for a research project, but need funding? Check out Petridish.org, which has just launched crowdfunded science and research projects.
- Visit the Amazon with Street View
  
  Google is making ground-level images of the rivers, forest and communities in the Rio Negro Reserve in the Amazon Basin available through the Street View feature on Google Maps.
- How Traditional Publishing Hurts Scientific Progress
  
  A battle that has raged for over a decade between advocates of open science and publishers of traditional scientific journals is coming to a head.
- A Universe of Self-Replicating Code
  
  A very interesting article on the biology of the internet from the pov of self-replicating code.
- Wireless highway charges electric cars as they go
  
  Range Anxiety - the term given to drivers of electric cars that are struck by the sudden fear that their vehicle does not have enough charge to reach its destination
- One Drug to Shrink All Tumors
  
  A single drug can shrink or cure human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver, and prostate tumors that have been transplanted into mice
- Japanese Ghost Ship Lost in the Tsunami Was Found Floating Near the Coast of Canada
  
  A Japanese ghost ship, a 150-foot long squid-fishing boat that's just been found, a year after the tsunami, near the coast of Canada.
- Humor - Condom Or Android Handset Name?
  
  this fun graph comparing condom names and Android phones. As you can see, most swing both ways and where there isn’t crossover, like in the condom called Tingle
- Amazon tipped to launch three new Kindle tablets in 2012
  
  Amazon is set to expand its Kindle tablet range with the launch of three new models in 2012, debuting two new 7-inch devices and an 8.9-inch tablet that target low, medium and high-end markets.
- James Cameron Now at Ocean's Deepest Point
  
  Explorer-filmmaker reaches Mariana Trench on deepest ever solo sub dive.
March 20, 2012
- Apple makes $1.5 billion in a weekend, sells 3 million new iPads
  
  Following news that Apple will issue its first stock dividend in over a decade, the tech company announced that it sold 3 million new iPads in its first weekend of sales.
- Apple downplays reports of overheating iPads
  
  Worried consumers are flocking to Apple’s forums to offer comments and observations on the new iPad, which reportedly runs hotter than previous models
- Chinese move to their eco-city of the future
  
  Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco City — the world’s largest eco-city — is an experimental model for how Chinese cities could develop and solve some of the enormous problems facing them.
- Darpa Director Bolts Pentagon for Google
  
  Darpa director Regina Dugan will soon be stepping down from her position atop the Pentagon’s premiere research shop to take a job with Google
- NASA’s new ‘Earth Now’ app visualizes global climate data
  
  “Earth Now,” a new free iPhone/iPad app from NASA, provides dramatic visualizations of near-real-time global climate data from NASA’s Earth science satellites.
- After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses
  
  The last print version is the 32-volume 2010 edition, which weighs 129 pounds, priced at $1,395.
- Wolfram|Alpha app for iOS adds image as input
  
  The latest version of the Wolfram|Alpha app for iOS adds the ability to use photos and other images as input.
- The Pirate Bay fights Hollywood with hovering server drones
  
  The Pirate Bay (TPB), which allows users to share media files via BitTorrent, plans to avoid shutdown by Hollywood by putting some of its servers in GPS controlled drones hovering over international waters
- Russia Plans Moon Base, Mars Network by 2030
  
  Russia plans to send probes to Jupiter and Venus, land a network of unmanned stations on Mars and ferry Russian cosmonauts to the surface of the Moon — all by 2030
- When Death Becomes Optional
  
  The year is 2032. You have just celebrated your 80th birthday and you have some tough decisions ahead. You can either keep repairing your current body or move into a new one.
- How to Become the Engineers of Our Own Evolution
  
  The "transhumanist" movement says better technology will enable you to replace more and more body parts—even your brain
March 13, 2011
- What Role Did Accused Soldier’s Brain Injury Play in Afghan Massacre?
  
  brain damage, wrought by a traumatic brain injury during an earlier deployment, might have been a contributing factor.
- CNET review of the new Apple iPad
  
  The iPad's new screen is a stunner. The the main thing you need to know..
- At SXSW, apps buzz is location, location, location
  
  SXSW has helped launch Twitter and Foursquare, and at this year's gathering, no topic is more buzzed about than location-based social network app
- LSD found successful in treating alcoholics
  
  One dose of the hallucinogenic drug LSD could help alcoholics give up drinking, according to an analysis of studies performed in the 1960s.
- Cost of Gene Sequencing Falls, Raising Hopes for Medical Advances
  
  In Silicon Valley, the line between computing and biology has begun to blur in a way that could have enormous consequences for human longevity.
- Gorillas & Humans Closer Than Thought, Genome Sequencing Reveals
  
  Results show that humans are closer to gorillas than we'd realized.
- Make every surface a touch screen
  
  Developed by Microsoft Research, Wearable Multitouch Interaction turns any surface in the user’s environment into a touch interface.
- Unwinding Nature's Clocks
  
  Scientists at Duke will share a $14 million grant from DARPA to study biological clocks
- NRL Designs Robot for Shipboard Firefighting
  
  scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have formed an interdisciplinary team to develop a humanoid robot that could fight fires on the next generation of combatants.
- Turning a monolingual speaker into multi-lingual
  
  Microsoft Research has developed a new approach to text-to-speech, turning monolingual TTS into multi-lingual one.
- TED launches TED-Ed educational initiative
  
  TED Curator Chris Anderson announced Monday TED’s new new educational initiative TED-Ed, featuring the TED-Ed YouTube channel.
- Another Strong Solar Flare
  
  The active region unleashed another strong flare on March 13th, an M7-class eruption that peaked around 1741 UT.
- Hallelujah Blessing representing ACN
  
  phone: 831 423-6363 email: blessing@energistx.com
- Michael Moore representing Ampegy Services
- Michael Zwerling representing Youngevity
  
  email: mz@ksco.com phone: 831 475-1080
March 06, 2012
- Factory-grown meat is coming
  
  Muscle grown in factories could soon be appearing in a supermarket near you
- Raspberry Pi computer: Can it get kids into code?
  
  The hope of Britain's future computer science industry is gathered around a tiny device in a school classroom in Cambridgeshire.
- Smithsonian turns to 3D to bring collection to the world.
  
  A new effort under way at the world's largest museum and research institution could eventually mean more of its 137 million objects will be publicly available, even if just via 3D digital models.
- How to see quantum images and survive (I hope)
  
  Physicists have designed several wild experiments to see if humans can see quantum images.
- Giving waste water the power to clean itself
  
  A novel form of renewable energy can generate electricity from waste-water treatment.
- Printing Muscle
  
  Organovo's 3-D printer creates human tissues that could help speed drug discovery.
- Better Living Through Electrochemistry
  
  Brain Boosting could give Big Pharma a run for their $$$
- Instruction for Masses Knocks Down Campus Walls
  
  Welcome to the brave new world of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) — a tool for democratizing higher education.
- Can you build a human body?
  
  The Bionic Bodies series on the BBC News website will be looking at how bionics can transform people’s lives.
- NSA builds Android phone for top secret calls
  
  The National Security Agency (NSA) has developed and built 100 ultra-secure but low-cost Android “Fishbowl” phones that allow U.S. Government staff to discuss top-secret subjects, with a “kind of police app” designed to monitor operations on the device.
- 'Lulzsec hackers' arrested in international swoop
  
  The suspected leader of the hacking group Lulzsec has pleaded guilty to carrying out high profile attacks on several companies.
- Cassini Detects Hint of Fresh Air at Dione
  
  NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has “sniffed” molecular oxygen ions around Saturn’s icy moon Dione, confirming the presence of a very tenuous atmosphere.
- Guest Scott Catamas and Compassionate Connections
  
  Our guest Scott Catamas, discusses the future of conflict resolution.
February 28, 2012
- Apple iPad 3 expected on 7 March following press event
  
  Apple has announced an event on 7 March at which the company is expected to launch its latest iPad tablet.
- Kickstarter Likely To Provide More Funding Than The National Endowment For The Arts In 2012
  
  They're expecting to break $150 million (this past year it was closer to $80 million), while the NEA has $146 million to give out.
- Researchers say galaxy may swarm with 'nomad planets'
  
  Nomad planets don't circle stars, but may carry bacterial life, say researchers from Kavli Institute.
- NASA's Spitzer Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space
  
  Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space.
- Mozilla to challenge big players in mobile web
  
  Mozilla is expected Wednesday to announce plans for its own app store, to be called the Mozilla Marketplace, offering mobile apps that could run equally well on an iPhone, an Android phone or a Windows Phone device.
- Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End
  
  a pair of Google-made glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time.
- Taser’s Latest Police Weapon: The Tiny Camera and the Cloud
  
  a half-ounce unit about the size of a cigar stub that clips on to a collar or sunglasses of an officer and can record two hours of video during a shift
- Battery breakthrough could bring electric cars to all
  
  an electric car that has a 300-mile range and could cost around $25,000 to $30,000.
- Wikileaks Reveals Privately Run CIA’s Dirty Secrets
  
  Wikileaks has published five million emails from Stratfor, an intelligence company based in Texas
- Charges against Assange drawn up in US
  
  WikiLeaks is the target of a US Justice Department investigation ''unprecedented both in its scale and nature'' and suggested that media reports that a secret grand jury had been convened in Alexandria, Virginia, are ''likely true''.
- The Two Most Important Startups in the World
  
  The two most important startups in the world: AngelList and Kickstarter.
- Amazon & Google Getting Impatient With Book Publishers
  
  Both e-book sellers are having trouble doing business with publishers.
- Free iOS and Android GPS app Navfree clocks up 5.5 million users, adding 500,000 more per month
  
  The Navmii app operates allows users to access its maps, regardless of whether or not the phone has a data connection.
- Nina Simon and the MAH - Museum 2.0
  
  Can internationally renowned museum dynamo Nina Simon take the Museum of Art & History into the new millennium?
February 21, 2012
- FDA to review safety of inhalable caffeine
  
  U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether inhalable caffeine sold in lipstick-sized canisters is safe for consumers and if its manufacturer was right to brand it as a dietary supplement.
- Nevada embraces the future, approves self-driving cars
  
  The state that makes its livelihood off gambling is making a safe bet that self-driving cars won’t cause mayhem on the highways of Nevada
- Volkswagen's Intelligent Car: The Next Step in Connected Cars
  
  The next step in the evolution of connected cars is making cars intelligent.
- Successful human tests for first wirelessly controlled drug-delivery chip
  
  Clinical trial of the programmable, implantable device shows promise in treating osteoporosis.
- Doing Biotech in My Bedroom
  
  A new generation of biologists embraces the do-it-yourself ethic of computer programming.
- San Jose State student goes viral with 'FouseyTUBE'
  
  Erakat's videos, in which he dresses up like his parents, belly dances in Apple stores and generally pokes fun at Arab stereotypes, have received more than 31 million views
- Online video channel rips page from App Store playbook in seeding a range of new content
  
  YouTube is enlisting Hollywood's help to reach a generation of viewers more familiar with smartphones than TV remotes.
- Neuron memory key to taming chronic pain
  
  Study suggests erasing neuronal memories may help control persistent pain
- Cleaning up Earth's orbit: A Swiss satellite to tackle space debris
  
  The Swiss Space Center at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has announced CleanSpace One, a project to develop and build the first of a family of satellites specially designed to clean up space debris.
- Planck satellite closer to revealing the cosmic blueprint
  
  The European Space Agency (ESA)’s Planck mission has revealed that our Galaxy contains previously undiscovered islands of cold gas and a mysterious haze of microwaves.
- Drones Set Sights on U.S. Skies
  
  Flying drones for commercial purposes, police say, violates federal aviation rules.
- GEORGIA TECH DEVELOPS BRAILLE-LIKE TEXTING APP
  
  Software eliminates need to look at mobile screen
- Computer Scientist Developing Intersections of the Future With Fully Autonomous Vehicles
  
  Intersections of the future won’t need stop lights or stop signs, or even roundabouts.
- Feb. 21, 1947: ‘Take a Polaroid’ Enters the English Language
  
  1947: The Land camera is demonstrated for the first time by its inventor, Edwin Land.
- RIP, Raygun: Pentagon’s Laser Plane Laid to Rest
  
  The U.S. Air Force's Airborne Laser (ABL) has finally been put out of its misery
- Single-atom transistor is ‘end of Moore’s Law’ and ‘beginning of quantum computing’
  
  The smallest transistor ever built has been created using a single phosphorous atom by an international team of researchers
February 14, 2012
- The first photos of Tesla’s electric SUV the Model X
  
  At a sneak preview in Hawthorne, Calif. on Thursday, electric car maker Tesla unveiled its third car, an all-electric SUV, minivan hybrid called the Model X, for the first time
- Kicks funds two $1Million projects this week!
  
  Two million-dollar projects, a major political speech involving Kickstarter, an amazing band launching a project for a comeback 20 years in the making
- Google Glasses are real and they are coming soon
  
  They provide a display with a heads up computer interface. There are a few buttons on the arms of the glasses, but otherwise, they could be mistaken for normal glasses.
- Solve for X: radical ‘moonshot’ technology ideas for solving global problems
  
  Solve for X is a place where people can go to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems.
- Graphene electronics moves into a third dimensio
  
  Wonder material graphene has been touted as the next silicon, with one major problem – it is too conductive to be used in computer chips. Now scientists from The University of Manchester have given its prospects a new lifeline.
- Harnessing nature’s solar cells Harnessing nature’s solar cells
  
  Photovoltaic panels made from plant material could become a cheap, easy alternative to traditional solar cells.
- LARES 'mirror ball' sat will test Einstein's theory LARES 'mirror ball' sat will test Einstein's theory
  
  The Laser Relativity Satellite, or LARES, a tungsten sphere with reflectors mounted in 92 holes punched into its surface, is the latest space probe tasked with measuring general relativity, one of the cornerstones of modern physics.
- Bubble-powered microrockets that zoom through your stomach
  
  Scientists have developed a new kind of tiny motor — which they term a “microrocket” — that can propel itself through acidic environments, such as the human stomach, without any external energy source
- Cash for Your Cache: Google's New Program Pays Users For the Right to Snoop
  
  install a browser extension that sends all of your browsing data — the websites you visit and how you use them — directly to Big G
- Time to give SETI a chance
  
  The Kepler space telescope, which has its eye on 150,000 stars, is beginning to home in on Earth-size planets.
- Investing in the Fountain of Youth
  
  A new breed of biotech start-ups, scientists, and prominent investors are beginning to tackle prevention of agng.
- MIT launches online learning initiative
  
  'MITx' will offer courses online and make online learning tools freely available.
- Infinite storage in the cloud Infinite storage in the cloud
  
  Bitcasa has created a new cloud service that promises “infinite storage” in the cloud for Windows and Mac.
February 7, 2012
- Scientists create first free-standing 3D cloak
  
  Researchers in the US have, for the first time, cloaked a three-dimensional object standing in free space, bringing the much-talked-about invisibility cloak one step closer to reality.
- Private Snoops Find GPS Trail Legal to Follow
  
  anyone with $300 can compete with Jack Bauer. Online, and soon in big-box stores, you can buy a device no bigger than a cigarette pack, attach it to a car without the driver’s knowledge and watch the vehicle’s travels — and stops — at home on your laptop
- NASA spacecraft reveals new observations of interstellar matter
  
  NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has captured the best and most complete glimpse yet of what lies beyond the solar system.
- Scientists decode brain waves to eavesdrop on what we hear
  
  These scientists have succeeded in decoding electrical activity in the brain’s temporal lobe – the seat of the auditory system – as a person listens to normal conversation.
- Scientists turn skin cells into neural precursors, bypassing stem-cell stage
  
  Mouse skin cells can be converted directly into cells that become the three main parts of the nervous system,
- New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby star
  
  An international team of scientists has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star — the new best candidate to support liquid water and, perhaps, life as we know it
- 'Kissenger' Allows You To Kiss Your Partner Long Distance, Explore Robot Love
  
  a small pair of lips stuck to a circular body that you can plug into your computer via a USB cord while you’re Skyping with your partner far across the world.
- Self-guided bullet could hit laser-marked targets from a mile away
  
  Sandia National Laboratories researchers have built a prototype of a four-inch-long, small-caliber bullet capable of steering itself towards a laser-marked target located approximately 2,000 meters (1.2 miles) away.
- NASA probe captures 1st video of moon’s far side
  
  A gravity-mapping spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed home its first video of the lunar far side, a view people on Earth never see.
- Four-telescope linkup creates world’s largest mirror
  
  The European Southern Observatory (Eso) has linked up its four telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory to form a virtual mirror of 130m (424ft) in diameter that will give scientists a much more detailed look at the Universe
- Half of Fortune 500s, US Govt. Still Infected with DNSChanger Trojan
  
  More than two months after authorities shut down a massive Internet traffic hijacking scheme, the malicious software that powered the criminal network is still running on computers at half of the Fortune 500 companies, and on PCs at nearly 50 percent of
- Salmon DNA-based memory device
  
  The device consists of a thin film of salmon DNA embedded with nano-sized particles of silver and then sandwiched between two electrodes.
- India's panel price crash could spark solar revolution
  
  In India, electricity from solar supplied to the grid is now cheaper than that from diesel generators.
- 83 year-old woman got 3D printed mandible
  
  The University of Hasselt (Belgium) has announced that Belgian and Dutch scientists have successfully replaced a lower jaw with a 3D printed model for a 83 year-old woman
- 2 Billion Jobs to Disappear by 2030
  
  Futurist Thomas Frey predicts that over 2 billion jobs will disappear by 2030, roughly 50% of all the jobs on the planet.
- Our Great Species Transition Stories
  
  new interactive wiki identifying the essential global stories we are telling about our species today:
- Guest - Neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, M.D.
  
  She is the author of The Female Brain, published in 2006, and The Male Brain, published in 2010
January 31, 2012
- Search for Aliens Is on Again, but Next Quest Is Finding Money
  
  Early in December, 42 radio telescopes, the Allen Telescope Array, in Hat Creek, California went back into operation.
- DARPA-Funded Hacker's Tiny $50 Spy Computer Hides In Offices, Drops From Drones
  
  Security researcher Brendan O’Connor is building a sensor-equipped surveillance-capable computer that’s so cheap it can be dropped from a drone and sacrificed after one use
- Evi trumps Siri for general knowledge
  
  It’s no Watson, but Evi, created by True Knowledge, a Cambridge, U.K.-based semantic technology startup, like Siri, can answer questions posed by voice in a conversational manner or by typing.
- A Manhole Cover was Probably the First Object Sent into Space
  
  Sent hurtling into orbit by a nuclear blast in 1957
- Web censorship will force next generation nets
  
  “If a full-surveillance world prevents us from speaking, then we need to make another platform where freedom of speech and freedom of thought can be maintained,”
- 'Super Wi-Fi' Blankets First County in U.S.
  
  A campaign to free up spectrum hoarded by old media bears fruit.
- Scientists create new atomic X-ray laser
  
  Lab scientists and international collaborators have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved,
- Could lab-grown meat soon be the solution to the world's food crisis?
  
  Cultured meat, developed in the laboratory, could have a dramatic effect on global hunger and climate change
- Pirate Bay to allow real-object downloads
  
  The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most infamous online piracy and file-sharing sites, is now hosting a type of mock-up file that allows your 3D printer to create physical objects.
- Probing the Brain's Mysteries
  
  New Research Seeks to Map Billions of Neural Links That Make the Mind Work
- Want to teach someone to code? Codecademy’s got an app for that
  
  odecademy, the white-hot startup that teaches even total novices how to code, has launched a new tool: Creators
- $150K Star Trek apartment gets destroyed in divorce
  
  Divorce can get ugly. It ruins lives, traumatizes children, and confuses cats. Now, it can also destroy an Intrepid-class starship, apparently.
- Obama's Google+ Hangout Didn't Change the Game, It Just Changed the Channel
  
  The President of the United States held a Google+ Hangout today. He fielded questions selected from over 130,000 submissions as well as from five lucky Americans selected to hang out with him live.
January 24, 2012
- Huge Solar Eruption Sparks Strongest Radiation Storm in 7 Years
  
  A powerful solar eruption blasts a stream of charged particles toward Earth
- Supreme Court Court Rejects Willy-Nilly GPS Tracking
  
  The Supreme Court said Monday that law enforcement authorities might need a probable-cause warrant from a judge to affix a GPS device to a vehicle and monitor its every move
- MEGAUPLOAD IS TAKEN DOWN!! (Maybe a early start of S.O.P.A / P.I.P.A ?)
  
  Anonymous message on the Megaupload takedown
- Apple Is Said to Ready IPad 3 With Sharper Screen, LTE Access
  
  sport a high-definition screen, run a faster processor and work with next-generation wireless networks, according to three people familiar with the product.
- Apple iBooks 2, iBooks Author to ‘reinvent textbooks’
  
  Apple introduced iBooks 2 in a media event Thursday. A “GarageBand for e-books.
- Sebastian Thrun Resigns from Stanford to Launch Udacity
  
  Professor Sebastian Thrun has given up his Stanford position to start Udacity - an online educational university.
- Star Wars crowdsourced film reaches million YouTube views
  
  A "directors cut" of a fan-made version of Star Wars has passed one million views on YouTube.
- Bitcoin online currency gets new job in web security
  
  Bitcoin software could prove at least as useful as the Bitcoin online peer-to-peer currency itself by underpinning a number of important new technologies
- Metamaterials Generate Gecko-Like Adhesive Force
  
  Physicists predict that metamaterials ought to generate an entirely new kind of force that can be turned on and off with the flick of a switch
- Open Source Surgical robots
  
  The Raven — originally developed for the American army by Dr Hannaford and Jacob Rosen of the University of California, Santa Cruz as a prototype for robotic surgery on the battlefield — is compact, light and cheap at around $250,000
- New microtweezers may build tiny 'MEMS' structures
  
  Researchers have created new "microtweezers" capable of manipulating objects to build tiny structures, print coatings to make advanced sensors
- IPv6 Internet Protocol to launch in June — finally
  
  major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are participating in World IPv6 Launch to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by June 6, 2012.
- New Book: Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think
  
  The authors make a compelling case for optimism. We are introduced to dozens of innovators and industry captains making tremendous strides in healthcare, agriculture, energy and other fields.
- A good explanation of SOPA and PIPA
  
  An excellent video on the issue by Khan Academy
- Move over, SOPA and PIPA... Here comes ACTA
  
  ACTA is an international treaty (39 countries) that, according to this website, would force ISPs to monitor online communications and is being negotiated behind closed doors rather than being democratically debated in national legislatures
- Robot and Frank Shows Softer Side of Robo-Helpers at Sundance
  
  Robot and Frank, a touching and futuristic film from first-time director Jake Schreier about a gruff old man whose grown son gives him a caretaker robot.
- NEOShield to assess Earth defence
  
  NEOShield is a new international project that will assess the threat posed by Near Earth Objects (NEO) and look at the best possible solutions for dealing with a big asteroid or comet on a collision path with our planet.
- T-rays technology could help develop Star Trek-style hand-held medical scanners
  
  Scientists have developed a new way to create Terahertz waves (T-rays) that may one day lead to biomedical detective devices similar to the 'tricorder' scanner used in Star Trek
- Finding philanthropy: Like it? Pay for it
  
  With conventional sources of money drying up, some scientists are turning to crowd-funding.
- Video of BMW's ConnectedDrive Connect car
  
  While BMW insists this is just a research project and won’t be in their cars for a long time, they also are expected to soon produce a traffic jam autopilot to compete with the offerings from Mercedes and Audi.
- Guest - Don Davis
  
  Visionary Space Artist and Animator who won an EMMY award for his ground-breaking work in the classic PBS series COSMOS, and worked on PBS' Planet Earth and Space Age series.
- The SF Edwardian Ball 2012
  
  “A two-night literary audiovisual blowout that brings together a wide range of freak artmakers, steampunk engineers, corset-bound fashionistas, postmodern cabaret musicians, cross-genre dancers, and many more.” - SF Weekly
- Mrs. Future's Edwardian World's Faire Edit, Part I
January 17, 2012
- Twenty top predictions for life 100 years from now
  
  Inspired by ten 100-year predictions made by American civil engineer John Elfreth Watkins in 1900
- Volunteers wanted for planet hunt
  
  Members of the public are being asked to join the hunt for nearby planets that could support life.
- 'Biohackers' Get Their Own Space to Create
  
  BioCurious, a 2,500-square-foot community lab in a low-slung office building in Sunnyvale, opened in November as a place where scientists, entrepreneurs and others can meet to conduct biology experiments and innovate on everything from bacteria to thermal
- When breakthroughs begin at home
  
  DIYBio.org, an online hub for sharing ideas on DIYbio (do-it-yourself biology) has grown to more than 2,000 members since its inception.
- Life Technologies Introduces the Benchtop Ion Proton™ Sequencer; Designed to Decode a Human Genome in One Day for $1,000
  
  Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced it is taking orders for the new benchtop Ion Proton™ Sequencer that is designed to sequence the entire human genome in a day for $1,000.
- Ask your question in the 2012 Google Science Fair
  
  Google has launched the second annual online Google Science Fair, the largest online science competition in the world, open globally to students ages 13–18.
- How Would You Like Your Bionic Vision?
  
  The eye is going bionic, and companies are competing fiercely to develop the best technologies that can restore vision to the blind.
- Smart TVs: The next tech war is in the living room
  
  At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world’s top television manufacturers are proposing a whole new approach to television:
- French Self-Driving Car Takes to the Road
  
  French researchers have developed a self-driving vehicle,
- Head-Transplantation: A Short Documentary about Dr. R. J. White’s Controversial Experiments
  
  This 15 min documentary chronicles the first monkey head-transplantation and a series of other similarly controversial experiments that were performed in Cleveland, Ohio during the 1960s and 70s by world-renowned neurosurgeon Dr. R. J. White.
- Getaround: The Future of Car-Sharing
  
  The first peer-to-peer car rental network
- 3D printer makers' rival visions of future
  
  3D printers are now being pitched at consumers.
- Google Hopes to Make Friends with a More Social Search
  
  New features add personalized results to its searches, and could lure users to Google+.
- NEC Demonstrates First Terabit/s Superchannel Transmission over 10,000km
  
  This is the first instance that a terabit/s channel generated from a single laser source has been transmitted over a long distance.
- Introducing the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE.
  
  Imagine a portable, wireless device in the palm of your hand that monitors and diagnoses your health conditions. That’s the technology envisioned by this competition, and it will allow unprecedented access to personal health metrics.
- Mapping the Earth in 3D
  
  Earth observation satellites have completely mapped the entire land surface of Earth for the first time in a German Aerospace Center (DLR) project designed to create the world’s first single-source, high-precision, 3D digital-elevation model of Earth .
- Apple to announce tools, platform to ‘digitally destroy’ textbook publishing
  
  Apple plans to introduce tools to help create interactive e-books at its special media event on Thursday, January 19 and expand its current platform to distribute them to iPhone and iPad users — a “GarageBand for e-books.”
- CES 2012: Two Audio Technologies Strip Away Headphones
  
  Two innovative audio technologies introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) offer hearing improvements, IEEE Spectrum Tech Talk reports.
- a Preview of Tomorrow's Wearable Computers
  
  Eyeglasses that overlay data and imagery onto the real world will unlock new kinds of mobile computing.
- Particle-free silver ink prints small, high-performance electronics
  
  University of Illinois materials scientists have developed a new silver ink for printing high-performance electronics on ubiquitous, low-cost materials such as flexible plastic, paper or fabric substrates.
- The YouTube Laugh Factory: A Studio System for Viral Video
  
  Starting out two and a half years ago with a handful of content creators and three or four people working production, the studio has since swelled to more than 200 partners and a full-time support staff of 140, with plans to ramp up to 1,000 partners
January 10, 2012
- Research may extend Moore’s law, enable silicon-based quantum computing
  
  In research that promises to extend Moore’s law by several generations, the smallest wires ever developed in silicon — just one phosphorus atom tall and four atoms wide — have been shown to have the same current-carrying capability as copper wires.
- 3-D cameras for cellphones
  
  Imagine a high-quality 3-D camera that provides more-accurate depth information than the Microsoft Kinect, has a greater range, and works under all lighting conditions — but is so small, cheap and power-efficient that it could be incorporated into a cellp
- Earth’s massive extinction 250 million years ago caused by mercury
  
  Scientists have discovered a a new culprit likely involved in Earth’s greatest extinction event 250 million years ago (when rapid climate change wiped out nearly all marine species and a majority of those on land): an influx of mercury into the ecosystem.
- The biology of politics: liberals roll with the good, conservatives confront the bad
  
  Study uncovers physiological nature of disgust in politics
- Guest Dave Blackburn - From the brink of death to the Hall of Fame
- Five years of iPhone
  
  Five years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the new iPhone at Macworld Expo. The company has since delivered five generations of new hardware and iOS software as its mobile competitors have scrambled to defend their positions and take share back. Five yea
- OLPC shows off $100 XO 3.0 tablet prototype
  
  The One Laptop Per Child Foundation (OLPC) is showing its XO-3 tablet prototype at CES this year in partnership with Marvell, who provide the brains of the 8-inch tablet with their Armada PXA618 SoC.
- Augmented reality lens from Microsoft and the University of Washington in the final stages of development
  
  Microsoft and the University of Washington are in the final stages of development for a new augmented reality project that may change the way people see the world.
- PowerTrekk Offers Unlimited Water-Based Gadget Power
  
  myFC’s new PowerTrekk portable, water-powered fuel-cell charger
- AR Drone 2.0 at CES
  
  Parrot unveils AR.Drone 2.0 - iPhone-controlled helicopter gets upgraded camera
- 3D Printing Draws Closer to Mainstream with Cubify
  
  3D Systems will start selling a new Cube 3D printer priced at $1299 that comes with a cartridge of plastic available in ten colors.
- The man who saves Stephen Hawking's voice
  
  Sam Blackburn has been responsible for the technology which allows Stephen Hawking to communicate for the past five years
- An ultra-high-res 100 nm microscope on your cell phone?
  
  A superlens (a perfect lens) would let you see a virus in a drop of blood and open the door to better and cheaper electronics.
- The Virtual Anatomy, Ready for Dissection
  
  The virtual body, introduced last month at N.Y.U., represents an unusual collaboration between industry and academia.
- Simpler, smarter consumer-electronics interfaces
  
  Several products that eliminate remote controls and other awkward interfaces are being shown at the Consumer Electronics Show this week, or are in the labs.
- Samsung Smart TV 2.0 Can ‘Listen, See and Do’
  
  will include an integrated camera and microphone
- Photoacoustic Device Finds Cancer Cells Before They Become Tumors
  
  Commercial production will allow scientists, academia opportunity for use in cancer studies
- Videos of 28th Chaos Communication Congress talks
  
  The four-day conference on technology, society, and utopia, offered lectures and workshops on effects of technological advances on society.
- iWalk
  
  Breakthrough ambulatory technology
- SWE-DISH® CCT120 Suitcase® Satellite Terminal
  
  Personal Portable Satellite-based Data Uplink
January 3, 2012
- Smartphone Activations Hit Record Holiday Highs
  
  More devices flooded into eager customers’ hands than in any previous holiday season.
- President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Bill Into Law
  
  President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law today. The statute contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision.
- The book beyond the book
  
  Melville House has introduced a new series, HybridBooks, to meld the e-reading and traditional book cultures
- Startup Ducks Immigration Law With ‘Googleplex of the Sea’
  
  Blueseed says U.S. immigration law is choking the flow of “bold and creative” entrepreneurs into Silicon Valley. So it’s building a floating IT fortress where entrepreneurs can be bold and creative right next to Silicon Valley without actually setting foo
- Space Plan From China Broadens Challenge to U.S.
  
  The Chinese government on Thursday announced an ambitious five-year plan for space exploration that would move China closer to becoming a major rival at a time when the American program is in retreat.
- US Army unveils 1.8 gigapixel camera helicopter drone
  
  New helicopter-style drones with 1.8 gigapixel colour cameras are being developed by the US Army.
- EPFL Looks to Bats, Locusts for Jumping and Gliding Robots
  
  Roboticists at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) are designing robots the emulate the jumping and gliding talents of grasshoppers, locusts, and bats
- Electronic Cotton
  
  Circuits could be woven from conductive and semiconducting natural fibers
- Hackers plan space satellites to combat censorship
  
  Computer hackers plan to take the internet beyond the reach of censors by putting their own communication satellites into orbit.
- Private Spaceflight: Up, Up, and Away
  
  This year, commercial spaceflight will really take off
- Stanford online course on natural language processing
  
  Stanford University is offering a course on Natural Language Processing free and online to students worldwide, January 23 to March 18.
- Researchers Create Living ‘Neon Signs’ Composed of Millions of Glowing Bacteria
  
  In an example of life imitating art, biologists and bioengineers at UC San Diego have created a living neon sign composed of millions of bacterial cells that periodically fluoresce in unison like blinking light bulbs.
- Your Connected Vehicle Is Arriving
  
  As our cars become networked—to the Internet and to one another—new trends in technology and society will redefine transportation. What's certain: tomorrow's automobiles will provide experiences that go well beyond driving.
- 3D Astrology with our guest, Astrologer Dusty Park
  
  With over 30 years experience, Astrology Dusty Park gives us a download on 2012..
December 27, 2011
- Top Scientific Discoveries of 2011
  
  From emotional honeybees to particles flying faster than Einstein's theory of relativity ought to allow, 2011 abounded in findings that posed new questions and expanded frontiers of possibility.
- Layer by Layer
  
  With 3-D printing, manufacturers can make existing products more efficiently—and create ones that weren't possible before.
- UCLA neuroscientists demonstrate crucial advances in 'brain reading'
  
  In another Minority Report-like research finding, a UCLA research team has made crucial advances in “brain reading,” using fMRI and machine learning methods to predict reactions of smokers experiencing nicotine cravings.
- Hijack your own dreams to improve your skills
  
  People can use lucid dreaming (ability to “wake up” while still in a dream) to improve decision-making and physical skills, even to help regain mobility following a stroke, recent studies suggest.
- New Particle at the Large Hadron Collider Discovered by ATLAS Experiment
  
  CERN researchers have observed a new particle — the Chi-b(3P) — in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, University of Birmingham and Lancaster University researchers just announced.
- 3D printers: Almost mainstream
  
  Creating three-dimensional objects on a printer is still complicated, but it's getting easier.
- Need a new material? New tool can help
  
  Exhaustive reference system and interactive toolkit could revolutionize materials research, potentially enabling new types of manufacturing.
- Stream TV Networks, Inc. Prepares to Launch Groundbreaking 3D Without Glasses Product Line at CES 2012
  
  Stream TV Networks‘ new autostereoscopic Ultra-D tech will convert 2D content to 3D and without glasses and will work with various formats, including Blu-ray, DVD, PC games, Internet, cable, and satellite, with conversion done in real time, he company cl
- Self-healing electronics could work longer and reduce waste
  
  When one tiny circuit within an integrated chip cracks or fails, the whole chip – or even the whole device – is a loss. But what if it could fix itself, and fix itself so fast that the user never knew there was a problem?
- The Mystery Behind Anesthesia
  
  Mapping how our neural circuits change under the influence of anesthesia could shed light on one of neuroscience's most perplexing riddles: consciousness.
- Google Augmented Reality Glasses Could Come Soon, What Would They Mean?
  
  Would you look at the world through Google Glasses? If you did, what would you see? That may be an option soon, if a reliable report today that the company is in "late prototype stages" on just such a product, proves accurate.
- A "Fantastic Voyage" Through the Body -- with Precision Control
  
  In a scene out of the movie Fantastic Voyage, Dr. Gabor Kosa of Tel Aviv University has developed a wireless “capsule endoscope” that can be remotely steered through the digestive tract to detect problem like hidden tumors or wounds, or allow for treatmen
- Disruptions: Wearing Your Computer on Your Sleeve
  
  Over the last year, Apple and Google have secretly begun working on projects that will become wearable computers, based on the smartphone, which is becoming the hub for our information sharing and gathering, New York Times Bits reports.
- MIT launches online learning initiative
  
  MITx' will offer courses online and make online learning tools freely available.
- Guest- Dr. Stephen Sideroff
- Guest - Dr. Hal Myers
December 20, 2011
- North Korea Fires Off Missile As Kim Jong-Il Dies
  
  And no sooner did Kim Jong-il pass from the earth than his military practiced the belligerence Kim preached: It test-fired a missile. Subtle.
- ‘Brainlink’ lets you remotely control toy robots and other gadgets
  
  Carnegie Mellon University spin-off BirdBrain Technologies has developed a device called Brainlink that adds a wireless Bluetooth link to robots and other gadgets, allowing users to remotely control them with an Android-based smartphone or computer.
- Gunning For Starbucks, Coffee & Power Expands to LA
  
  Coffee & Power has opened its first official workclub in Santa Monica, CA. It's the first expansion of the "meta-company" outside the San Francisco Bay Area
- Bio-Assembling in 3-D with Magnetic Levitation
  
  A new system grows tissue in 3-D without protein matrixes
- Superflies bred to be the first astronauts on Titan
  
  Artist Andy Gracie is attempting to breed a strain of fruit fly that could survive on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon
- GPU-based server farm slashes analysis time for DNA sequencing data batches from days to hours
  
  BGI, the world’s largest genomics institute, has slashed the time to analyze batches of DNA sequencing data from nearly four days to just six hours using a NVIDIA Tesla GPU-based server farm.
- NVIDIA opens up CUDA platform, helping accelerate the path to exascale computing
  
  NVIDIA has announced that it will provide the source code for the new NVIDIA CUDA LLVM-based compiler to academic researchers and software-tool vendors, enabling them to more easily add GPU support for more programming languages and support parallel-compu
- Google’s response to Siri
  
  Google X engineers are developing Google’s response to Apple’s Siri, code-named Majel
- Neuroscientists boost memory using genetics, new memory-enhancing drug
  
  Could this be the “Limitless” breakthrough we’ve been looking for?
- High-Energy Physicists Set Record for Network Data Transfer
  
  With a sustained data rate of 186 gigabits per second, high-energy physicists demonstrate the efficient use of long-range networks to support cutting-edge science
- Should We Fire the First Shot in a Cyberwar?
  
  Defending against an attack is so hard that some think a stronger offense is required.
- Memory Adjustment Pills Get Pentagon Push
  
  Military personnel will pop a pill to wipe away the fear they associate with traumatic memories
- Electronic tattoo display runs on blood
  
  a subcutaneously implanted touch-screen that operates as a cell phone display, with the potential for 3G video calls that are visible just underneath the skin.
- Paul Allen, Supersizing Space Flight
  
  Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen indicated he is prepared to commit $200 million or more of his wealth to build the world's largest airplane as a mobile platform for launching satellites at low cost, which he believes could transform the space indust
- Solar power much cheaper to produce than most analysts realize
  
  The public is being kept in the dark about the viability of solar photovoltaic energy, according to a study conducted at Queen’s University.
- Trillion-frame-per-second video
  
  By using optical equipment in a totally unexpected way, MIT researchers have created an imaging system that makes light look slow.
- Guest Dr. Kerry M. Kriger
  
  Dr. Kriger is the Founder & Executive Director of SAVE THE FROGS!, America's first and only public charity dedicated to protecting amphibians.
- by Daniel Terdiman December 19, 2011 6:00 AM PST The world is changing fast--maybe faster than we ever thought. And within five years, science fiction is going to turn into non-fiction. We'll be able to read each other's minds, forget all our passwords,
  
  Within five years, science fiction is going to turn into non-fiction. We'll be able to read each other's minds, forget all our passwords, and create all our own homes' energy.
December 13, 2011
- It Won’t Be Easy for Iran to Dissect, Copy U.S. Drone
  
  Iran will probably need help from arms exporters Russia and China in breaking down the flying-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
- CERN physicists find hint of Higgs boson
  
  Researchers at the CERN particle accelerator have found "intriguing hints" of the Higgs boson, a moment of major progress in years of previously unfruitful searching for the elusive subatomic particle.
- Vision Scientists Demonstrate How to Learn Things Automatically
  
  New research suggests it may be possible to learn high-performance tasks with little or no conscious effort
- Social Networking Is About to Get Way More Pervasive
  
  MagnetU is a $24 device that broadcasts your social media profile to everyone around you.
- Changes in bioelectric signals trigger formation of new organs; regenerative medicine implications
  
  For the first time, scientists have altered natural bioelectrical communication among cells to directly specify the type of new organ to be created at a particular location within a vertebrate organism.
- Study: Eating Fish Reduces Risk Of Alzheimer’s Disease
  
  People who eat baked or broiled fish on a weekly basis may be improving their brain health and reducing their risk of developing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease
- NASA Mars Rover Finds Mineral Vein Deposited by Water
  
  NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help improve understanding of the history of wet environments on Mars.
- Will the Kinect 2 Be Able to Read Your Lips?
  
  Some sources say that the next iteration of the Kinect will be so precise that it can lip read.
- Advanced Reactor Gets Closer to Reality
  
  Terrapower is pushing ahead with a reactor design that uses a nearly inexhaustible fuel source.
- 3D Holographic Fashion Shows—Runway Creativity or Disaster?
  
  Stefan Eckert has teamed with motion-graphics designer Tom Jockel and director Florian Sigl for his German couture fashion label to create what may have seemed to be an innovative show.
- Full Speed Ahead, Without a Map, Into New Realms of Possibility
  
  For tomorrow’s Web, iconoclast Ted Nelson predicts louder and more intrusive content, with more interruptions, more security threats, more monopolies and, worse interfaces.
- Digital Narcotics May Be the Future of Drugs
  
  Technologists will become the next drug dealers, administering narcotics through brain stimulation, according to Rohit Talwar, the founder of Fast Future Research, speaking at Intelligence Squared’s If conference.
- Are you an 18–24 entrepreneur? Intel might award you $100,000 startup capital
  
  Intel Corporation has launched Intel Innovators, a Facebook platform that encourages 18- to 24-year-old entrepreneurs in the U.S. to share (for the next 3 months) their business ideas, grow a fanbase, and receive real-time feedback for the chance to win
- Fecal Transplants: They Work, the Regulations Don’t
  
  They work, in more than 9 out of 10 patients, but remains a niche therapy, practiced only by gastroenterologists who work for broad-minded institutions and who have overcome the ick factor
- Davis flying vehicle firm signs China deal
  
  Davis-based Moller International, developer of the Skycar flying vehicle and other aircraft, said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with a joint venture partner in China to develop, manufacture, distribute and sell its products in that nation.
- NTSB recommends full ban on use of cell phones while driving
  
  A federal safety board called Tuesday for a nationwide ban on the use of cell phones and text messaging devices while driving.
- Not Even Wrong
  
  A great Physics Blog
December 6, 2011
- 3D printer used to make bone-like material
  
  It looks like bone. It feels like bone. For the most part, it acts like bone.
- Civilian use of tiny drones may soon fly in U.S.
  
  f the FAA approves, the tiny robotic craft will find a place in law enforcement, agriculture and other civilian uses.
- European robots helping to perform safer, quicker brain surgery
  
  Robotic neurosurgery multiplies surgeon ‘hands’
- Stanford expands free online IT course offerings
  
  New online courses set to start in January 2012 include Software as a Service and Computer Science 101, as well as primers on entrepreneurship
- Fukushima ‘China syndrome,’ hydrovolcanic explosion possible
  
  Architect of Reactor 3 warns of massive hydrovolcanic explosion
- Did Iran Capture a U.S. Stealth Drone Intact?
  
  There are good reasons to question Iran’s story — or at least parts of it.
- Everything You Need to Know about CarrierIQ
  
  Behind the storm of controversy over software that silently captures many smartphone users' every click.
- Neurons illuminate as they fire, may open new ways to trace brain signals
  
  scientists at Harvard have created genetically altered neurons that light up as they fire
- Swiss scientists prove durability of quantum network
  
  Scientists and engineers have proven the worth of quantum cryptography in telecommunication networks by demonstrating its long-term effectiveness in a real-time network.
- Higgs Boson rumors at LHC
  
  rumors are flying about a possible new particle discovered at the Large Hadron Collider with a mass of 126 GeV. First question: Is it really there? Second: Is it the long-awaited Higgs particle?
- What Silicon Valley Startup is getting all the best people right now?
  
  Does it have to do with the economy?
- When an adult took standardized tests forced on kids
  
  A longtime friend on the school board of one of the largest school systems in America did something that few public servants are willing to do.
- The pioneering Seasteading Institute aims to seriously upgrade politics
  
  We can unleash innovation in government and allow pioneers to peacefully test new systems of government on the ocean. Those found to be successful will inspire change in governments around the world.
- Earth-like planet found in distant sun's habitable zone
  
  For the first time, astronomers using NASA's Kepler space telescope have confirmed a roughly Earth-size planet orbiting a sun-like star in the so-called "Goldilocks" zone where water can exist in liquid form on the surface and conditions may be favorable
- Guest Foster Gamble and the THRIVE Movement
  
  Weaving together breakthroughs in science, consciousness and activism, THRIVE offers real solutions, empowering us with unprecedented and bold strategies for reclaiming our lives and our future.
November 29, 2011
- Robotic prison wardens to patrol South Korean prison
  
  Robot wardens are about to join the ranks of South Korea's prison service.
- 9 Reasons You Should Wear Tinfoil Hats
  
  Why Americans should fight for their rights and consider ways to protect themselves with encryption and defensive digital technologies.
- Palantir, the War on Terror's Secret Weapon
  
  A Silicon Valley startup that collates threats has quietly become indispensable to the U.S. intelligence community
- ‘Twine’ Foreshadows A Future Where All Objects Talk To The Internet
  
  MIT Media Lab alumni Supermechanical have built Twine, a sleek 2.5″ rubber square which connects to Wifi and allows objects to “communicate”
- Tiny Magnets Could Clear Diseases from the Blood
  
  Researchers make magnetic nanoparticles that can latch on to harmful molecules and purge them from the blood.
- Exposing the Cost of Health Care
  
  Most Americans don't know what medical procedures cost until after the fact. One startup aims to change that.
- DNA Barcoding Goes Mainstream
  
  DNA barcoding essentially means identifying a species of animal, based on a snippet of DNA
- Feds Seize 150 Web Domains Before Cyber Monday
  
  Federal agencies shut down websites they said were illegally selling counterfeit goods or copyrighted works. But it is easy for bad guys to set up shop under a new name.
- Trek Nation TV series debuts this Week
  
  Roddenberry put 'Star Trek' light-years ahead
- Engineered Avian Flu Could Kill Half the World’s Humans
  
  the real story of a scientist who created a virus with the power to litter the Earth with billions of dead bodies.
- Guest Audrey Murr Copland - Spiritual Healer
  
  Audrey has built up a dedicated following over 25 years in the spiritual field
November 22, 2011
- World’s lightest material is 100 times lighter than Styrofoam
  
  The new material redefines the limits of lightweight materials because of its unique “micro-lattice” cellular architecture
- Using ionized plasmas as cheap sterilizers for developing world
  
  ionized plasmas like those in neon lights and plasma TVs not only can sterilize water, but make it antimicrobial – able to kill bacteria – for as long as a week after treatment
- Sergey Brin donates half a million dollars to Wikipedia
- Face Recognition Makes the Leap From Sci-Fi
  
  SceneTap, a new app for smart phones, uses cameras with facial detection software to scout bar scenes.
- ARE GUT BACTERIA IN CHARGE?
  
  Microbes in our bellies may be telling us to eat more, determining how much we move, and making us anxious.
- Batteries with 10x more capacity and 10x faster charge
  
  Northwestern University engineers have created an electrode for lithium-ion batteries — rechargeable batteries such as those found in cellphones and iPods — that allows them to hold a charge up to 10 times greater and charge 10 times faster than current b
- Stanford joins BrainGate team developing brain-computer interface to aid people with paralysis
  
  Stanford joins BrainGate team developing brain-computer interface to aid people with paralysis
- VIKINGS POSSIBLY CARRIED NATIVE AMERICAN TO EUROPE
  
  Medieval texts suggest the Vikings arrived in the New World more than 1,000 years ago.
- McAfee: Nearly All New Mobile Malware In Q3 Targeted At Android Phones
- Jeff Bezos’ Spaceship Takes Off
  
  Jeff Bezos’ super-secretive commercial space program has opened up a bit, releasing a brief video showing low-altitude testing of its New Shepard suborbital space vechicle.
- Walking through doorways causes forgetting, new research shows
  
  Forget Forget Forget Forget you walked through that last doorway..
- Creating photons from a vacuum
  
  Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have succeeded in creating photons from a vacuum.
- Quantum theorem shakes foundations
  
  The wavefunction is a real physical object after all, say researchers.
- Liquid Robotics' Wave Gliders Begin Historic Swim Across Pacific
  
  A few days ago four Wave Gliders—self propelled robots, each about the size of a dolphin—left San Francisco for a 60,000 kilometer journey
- Smart Swarms of Bacteria Inspire Robotics Researchers
  
  TAU model discovers adaptable decision-making in bacteria communitie
- Microscope probes living cells at the nanoscale to diagnose cancers
- Pepper Spray Cop Squirts the Internet in the Eye
  
  Clever Photoshop artists have turned the image of a police officer pepper-spraying Occupy Wall Street protesters into a fast-spreading internet meme.
- Guest Ayman Sawaf and Sacred Commerce
  
  The Rise of the Global Citizen
November 15, 2011
- How Occupy Wall Street Occupied Twitter, Too
  
  Software reveals how the Occupy Wall Street idea spread across to the social Web as protesters took to the streets.
- Live streaming and Chat from Occupy Wall Street
  
  See what's happening now, live from the occupation
- Sony suspends 'Singularity' for revisions
  
  Ray Kurzweil, singularity expert, will help with script
- POLAROID RELEASES THE Z340 INSTANT DIGITAL CAMERA
  
  camera allows users to customize each individual photo between snap and share
- Siri’s Sister Company Launches a Discovery Engine
  
  Trapit, a startup that personalizes content with the same artificial intelligence technology that powers Apple’s Siri,
- Google’s Lab of Wildest Dreams
  
  In a top-secret lab in an undisclosed Bay Area location where robots run free, the future is being imagined.
- Telexistence Robot Avatar Transmits Sight, Hearing and Touch - TELESAR V
  
  TELESAR V, a “telexistence” robot system being researched at Keio University, aims to free people from time and space constraints by using remotely operated robots to interact with the remote environment
- Disruptions: The 3-D Printing Free-for-All
  
  Not only will 3D printers change the nature of manufacturing, but it will further challenge our concept of ownership and copyright.
- An AI tool for for understanding and indexing sound
  
  New software tool provides unprecedented searches of sound, from musical riffs to gunshots
- Why Is China Building These Gigantic Structures In the Middle of the Desert?
  
  New photos have appeared in Google Maps showing unidentified titanic structures in the middle of the Chinese desert.
- By and for the 99%, a visionary Blueprint for a Radical Remake of America (or any country) DRAFT 3B
  
  A major rethinking of how Government 3.0 could be by our guest this week, Dr. Bruce Damer.
- Google Docs link to Bruce Damer's Radical Revision
November 08, 2011
- Nanoparticle solar cells make light work
  
  Cheap, printable photovoltaics might finally live up to their early promise.
- World's most powerful laser to tear apart the vacuum of space
  
  A laser powerful enough to tear apart the fabric of space could be built in Britain as part major new scientific project that aims to answer some of the most fundamental questions about our universe.
- NASA Plans Cloud Marketplace For Scientists
  
  NASA plans to offer a cloud storefront where scientists will be able to determine their computing needs and access cloud services from a central location
- Google Changes Search Algorithm, Trying to Make Results More Timely
  
  Google revised its methods on Thursday to make the answers timelier.
- Worldwide bacteria network may readily swap beneficial genes
  
  MIT researchers have found evidence of a massive network connecting bacteria from around the world: 10,000 unique genes flowing via horizontal gene transfer (HGT) among 2,235 bacterial genomes.
- How to prevent or slow down age-related disorders
  
  Eliminating “deadbeat” cells that accumulate with age could prevent or delay the onset of age-related disorders and disabilities, Mayo Clinic researchers have shown.
- Countering ‘normocentrism’: autistic individuals found superior in multiple areas
  
  research reveals that many autistics – not just “savants” – have qualities and abilities that may exceed those of people who do not have the condition
- Mind the flying robots with cameras and arms
  
  Queensland University of Technology (QUT) engineers have developed tiny flying robots with multiple cameras that can zoom to hard-to-reach places and make deliveries.
- Company Decodes Cancers to Target Treatment
  
  By analyzing tumors, Foundation Medicine helps oncologists, pharma companies, and researchers combat the disease.
- NASA Studying Ways to Make 'Tractor Beams' a Reality
  
  A team of NASA scientists has won funding to study the concept of Star Trek-style tractor beams — the ability to trap and move objects using laser light — for remotely capturing planetary or atmospheric particles and delivering them to a robotic rover or
- Google TV reboots
  
  Google TV is revamping its software, but doesn't plan to put out new hardware until next year.
- 50 Companies Team to Create Open Source EV
  
  The StreetScooter is a $7,000 EV with a 74 mph top speed and an 80-mile range. It relies on leased batteries and uses a heat pump for heating and air conditioning, and shipping company DHL has already ordered 3,500 of them — but the most interesting thing
- Difference Engine: Luddite legacy
  
  AN APOCRYPHAL tale is told about Henry Ford II showing Walter Reuther, the veteran leader of the United Automobile Workers, around a newly automated car plant. “Walter, how are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues,” gibed the boss of Ford
- Apple Testing Siri Compatibility With iPhone 4, Seeds Internal Build
  
  Apple is still considering Siri port on iPhone 4. The report says that there’s a big chance that we see Siri coming to older devices officially from Apple itself.
- Microsoft Kinect Turns One Year Old, Ushers in New Interface Era
  
  Microsoft's gesture interface Kinect turns one year old this weekend; it was the 4th of November 2010 when it was first publicly available.
- Premiere: One Millionth Tower High-Rise Documentary Takes Format to New Heights
  
  The makers of the new film One Millionth Tower reinvent the documentary format.
- STUDY INDICATES BRAIN PLAYS ROLE IN REGULATING BLOOD SUGAR IN HUMANS
  
  It turns out the brain is a key player in regulating glucose (sugar) metabolism in humans
- Our guest - Pharmacist Ben Fuchs
- Dragon offers ticket to Mars
  
  A cargo carrier designed for low Earth orbit could provide a cheap route to the red planet.
- Big Asteroid to Cross Earth-Moon Orbit Today
  
  An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier is to soar past the Earth today
- Kindle Fire vs. Nook Tablet
  
  The Kindle Fire isn't out yet, but it's already got some serious competition. Read more: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33198_7-57319054-286/kindle-fire-vs-nook-tablet/#ixzz1d82IGU5a
November 01, 2011
- Researchers Release Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes
  
  The insects were created with the aim of controlling dengue fever, but opponents worry that not enough testing has been done to warrant release into the wild.
- Why Siri Is a Google Killer
  
  The boundless number of applications using Siri will explode.
- A deeper look at the $35 Android tablet shows that it’s usable, mostly
- Facebook Tightens Security with New Tools
  
  In the wake of rising scam reports, the company has launched new protective measures and released statistics on attacks.
- Adobe MAX 2011 - Photoshop Image Deblurring sneak
  
  Amazing magic! Notice the crowds reaction to this demo..
- Charging toward better neural implants
  
  Researchers improve the efficiency of devices that stimulate damaged nerves, reducing potential side effects.
- The Virtual Nurse Will See You Now
  
  In the hectic world of a hospital, a computer-simulated nurse can be surprisingly comforting.
- Synthetic blood created by British scientists could be used in transfusions in just two years Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2053829/Artificial-blood-stem-cells-used-transfusions-just-years.html#ixzz1cOFAjr00
- Lighting Sheets Made of Tiny LEDs
  
  Nth Degree Technologies plans to replace bulbs with lights that can be printed on large, flexible surfaces.
- Microsoft Offers a Glimpse into the Future of Productivity
- Global premiere of the Thrive Movement
- The Making of Arduino
  
  How five friends engineered a small circuit board that’s taking the DIY world by storm
- Microsoft HoloDesk lets users handle virtual 3D objects
  
  a new system called HoloDesk that allows users to pick up, move and even shoot virtual 3D objects
- America’s New CIO Wants To Disrupt Government And Make It A Startup
  
  VanRoekel said that he wants to overhaul the federal bureaucracy to become more agile in an age of services delivered via mobile apps, and where information is atomized so that it can be mashed up by anyone to provide deeper insights.
- Man gets smartphone dock built into prosthetic arm
  
  A British man has become the world's first ever patient to have a smartphone docking system built into his prosthetic arm.
- Scan Anything and Let Your Phone Do the Rest
  
  A new app lets users capture visual and audio input with a smart phone and search for related information.
- Scientists measure dream content for the first time
  
  Dreams activate the brain in a similar way to real actions
- Real-Life Inception: Army Looks to ‘Counteract Nightmares’ With Digital Dreams
  
  In an Army-backed experiment called “Power Dreaming,” Naval Hospital Bremerton in Washington State will help traumatized troops battle their nightmares — with soothing, digitally-made dreams crafted in virtual worlds.
- Automakers Want To Cut The Cord On Electric Cars
  
  Plugging in an electric car — or parking it on a charging mat — may soon be a thing of the past.
- Astronomers discover complex organic matter in the universe
- City Lights Could Reveal Civilisations On Other Planets
  
  Earth's biggest cities are visible from space at night thanks to street lighting. ET's probably are too, say astronomers
- Hydrogen Geysers And Metallic Iron Could Explain Puzzling Hollows on Mercury
  
  The strange features spotted by the MESSENGER spacecraft may be caused by hydrogen venting from the planet's interior, says planetary geologist
- Giant Waterworld Confirmed Around Naked Eye Star
  
  The innermost planet around 55 Cancri A is almost certainly an exotic waterworld with a radius about twice Earth's, say astronomers
October 25, 2011
- Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world
  
  An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.
- Iris for Android: Kind of Like Siri, But for Android
  
  There's a new application called Iris (Siri backwards, heh) that kind of, sort of poorly emulates what Siri does.
- Europe's first Galileo satellites lift off
  
  Europe's first satellite-navigation spacecraft have been sent into orbit.
- More Jobs Predicted for Machines, Not People
  
  A faltering economy explains much of the job shortage in America, but advancing technology has sharply magnified the effect, more so than is generally understood
- Moog Debuts an iPad Synth From the Outer Limits
  
  Software & Apps · $1 introductory price, $30 full price · Moog Music
- Musicians and Fans Descend on Second Annual Moogfest
  
  The festival will feature bands, panel discussions, art exhibitions, film screenings, and workshops by and for electronic music geeks.
- Superconducting disc locked in upside-down levitation
  
  Surely if flying saucers existed, they would float around like the disc in this video.
- How Google's Self-Driving Car Works
  
  Once a secret project, Google's autonomous vehicles are now out in the open
- Get Ready for a New Human Species
  
  Now that we can rewrite the code of life, Darwinian evolution can't stop us, says investor Juan Enriquez.
- Kurzweil Responds: Don’t Underestimate the Singularity
  
  Last week, Paul Allen and a colleague challenged the prediction that computers will soon exceed human intelligence. Now Ray Kurzweil, the leading proponent of the “Singularity,” offers a rebuttal
- Seeing through walls
  
  Researchers develop an innovative radar system that locates people behind concrete walls
- Tiny new tool to track heart rate in real time on a smartphone
  
  Thanks to an invention from two EPFL laboratories, patients and their doctors can now immediately be made aware of heart rate anomalies and can thus quickly take any necessary medical measures.
- Scientists create computing building blocks from bacteria and DNA
  
  Imperial College London researchers have demonstrated that they can build AND, NOT, and NAND digital logic gates out of E-coli bacteria and DNA, which could lead to a new generation of biological computing devices that, for example, swim inside arteries,
- Steven Pinker: Humans are less violent than ever
  
  Pessimists, anti-capitalists, conservatives and greens, take note – we are much more peaceful now than we used to be, says the psychologist
- Climate change: What we do – and don't – know
  
  a brief guide to what we currently do – and don't – know about the planet's most burning issue.
October 18, 2011
- CROWDSOURCING DEMOCRACY THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA
  
  Social media can identify and help prevent dangerous situations from occurring during elections
- ERASING HISTORY? TEMPORAL CLOAKS ADJUST LIGHT'S THROTTLE TO HIDE AN EVENT IN TIME
  
  Cornell University researchers have demonstrated that it’s possible to cloak a singular event in time, creating a “history editor.”
- Talk to the Virtual Hands: Self-Animated Avatars Improve Communication in Head-Mounted Display Virtual Environments
  
  Mapping real-world motions to “self-animated” virtual avatars, using body tracking to communicate a wide range of gestures, helps people communicate better in virtual worlds like Second Life
- Siri development team one of the largest groups at Apple
  
  The personality and sense of humor of Siri, the new voice control technology found in the iPhone 4S, was a carefully thought out decision made by one of the largest software teams at Apple.
- Self-replication of information-bearing nanoscale patterns
  
  New York University researchers have created webs of DNA, which made copies of themselves. This is a step towards self-replication in materials fabrication.
- Paul Allen: The Singularity Isn't Near
  
  The Microsoft cofounder and a colleague say the singularity itself is a long way off
- A faster, higher-quality way to reprogram cells into stem cells
  
  New technique produces one hundred-fold increase in efficiency in reprogramming human cells
- RESEARCHERS DO PRECISE GENE THERAPY WITHOUT A NEEDLE
  
  The new technique uses electricity to “shoot” bits of therapeutic biomolecules through a tiny channel and into a cell in a fraction of a second.
- Those Medical Scan Results Are Just an App Away
  
  Mobile MIM, made by MIM Software, can turn an iPhone or an iPad into a diagnostic medical instrument
- Robot biologist solves complex problem from scratch
  
  First it was chess. Then it was Jeopardy. Now computers are at it again, but this time they are trying to automate the scientific process itself
- DISEASES IN A DISH: MODELING MENTAL DISORDERS
  
  Using skin cells from patients with mental disorders, scientists are creating brain cells that are now providing extraordinary insights into afflictions like schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease
- Carbon nanotube muscles generate giant twist for novel motors
  
  Twist per muscle length is over a thousand times higher than for previous artificial muscles and the muscle diameter is ten times smaller than a human hair
- The Orbital Debris Quarterly
  
  Read all about the latest news about our garbage in space
- Does future hold 'Avatar'-like bodies for us?
  
  Singularity Summit looks at serious work done to regenerate body parts
- Wearable Depth-Sensing Projection System Makes Any Surface Capable of Multitouch Interaction
  
  Researchers From Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon Create OmniTouch Technology
- New media bypassing TV channels, book publishers
- Vast Hidden Network Regulates Gene Expression in Cancer
  
  Uncovering a vast gene regulatory network (“mPR network“) in mammalian cells that could explain why there is such genetic variability in cancer.
- A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Tuesday, Oct. 18
  
  Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery
October 11, 2011
- Is the Anonymous Threat to 'Erase' the NYSE Legit?
- Brain imaging reveals why we remain optimistic in the face of reality
- Homeland Security moves forward with 'pre-crime' detection
- Hold the Phone for Vital Signs
- Caltech Engineers Build Smart Petri Dish
  
  Device can be used for medical diagnostics, to image cell growth continuously
- Brain linked to robotic hand; success hailed
- How Our Brains Turn Women Into Objects
- Did Steve Jobs Leave a Special Four Year Plan for Apple?
- iPhone 4S Preliminary Benchmarks: ~800MHz A5, Slightly Slower GPU than iPad 2, Still Very Fast
- iPad now 97% of tablet traffic, eclipses iPhone, iOS remains mobile leader
- Apple's free iMessage expected to undermine carriers' high-profit SMS business
- Our Guest, Sri Gyan McCaughan, of the Mount Madonna School
  
  keeping imagination and education connected for the future
October 4, 2011
- Researchers Trail Twitter To Track World's Mood Swings
- MESSENGER Lens Solves Mercury's Mysterious "Bright Patches" & Unique Magnetic Field
- Are Aliens Part of God's Plan, Too? Finding E.T. Could Change Religion Forever
- Self-healing materials take cue from nature
- Scientists release most accurate simulation of the universe to date
  
  The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe yet made
- SINGLE DOSE OF HALLUCINOGEN MAY CREATE LASTING PERSONALITY CHANGE
  
  Johns Hopkins study of ingredient in “magic mushrooms” found participants exhibited more “openness”
- Boston Dynamics' AlphaDog Quadruped Robot Prototype on Video
- China prepares to launch first space lab module this week
- On Wall Street, The Race to Zero Continues
- Why Assistant Needs an A5 and How it Was 'Many Iterations' Ahead of its Competitors
- Can hot air be the free fuel of the future?
- NASA Ames Scientist Develops Cell Phone Chemical Sensor
- Mad Like Tesla - author Tyler Hamilton - This week's Dr. Future guest
- How the Kindle Fire Could Make 7-Inch Tablets Huge
- Everything You Need to Know About Apple’s New iPhone 4S
September 27, 2011
- A translation of Apple's iPhone event invite
- Obama Pushes Jobs Plan at LinkedIn Event
- Jobs in the Cloud: How online freelancing is changing the bootstrap atmosphere
- The latest in the neutrino Faster Than Light experiments
  
  An updater page from New Scientist on the latest in neutrino ftl research
- Mobilize 2011 live coverage
  
  Listen to influential thinkers in the mobile space — people like Square’s Keith Rabois, Twitter’s VP of Engineering Michael Abbott and Pandora’s CTO Tom Conrad — about the key areas of mobile growth, such as the app economy, and use of tablets
- Three Senators condemn OnStar for tracking former customers
- Scientists Reconstruct Brains’ Visions Into Digital Video In Historic Experiment
- Google-powered project brings the Dead Sea Scrolls online
- Facebook’s feature flurry: Highlights from f8
- MIT Setting Up Industrial-Scale Graphene Printing Press
  
  a miraculous, Nobel Prize-winning, one atom-thick carbon nano-material, for use in next generation electronic devices
- Apple's 'Assistant' Seen as Key Feature for New iPhone Hardware
- Augmented Reality Meets Gesture Recognition
  
  A new app superimposes imagery over your smart-phone view, and lets you interact with it via hand gestures.
- Marijuana could prevent post-traumatic stress symptoms
- Facebook tracks you even after logging out
- 'Inexhaustible' source of hydrogen may be unlocked by salt water
  
  A grain of salt or two may be all that microbial electrolysis cells need to produce hydrogen from wastewater or organic byproducts, without adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere or using grid electricity
- 20 Popular High School Books Available as Free eBooks & Audio Books
  
  Remember your high school programming? Here's an easy way to look back and wonder, wtf??
- The world’s first 3-D printed car
  
  Printing a car? Can I print some fuel to go with it?
September 20, 2011
- Here Comes Apple's Real TV
  
  A bold, new Apple TV set would replace today’s cable systems, game consoles, and 3D goggles—and launch a war with cable providers
- Google Wallet Launches
- Goodbye Netflix, Hello Qwikster. And not really goodbye Netflix
- Can Technology Save The U.S. Postal Service?
- ARM-ed to the Teeth, Arduino Hardware Grows Up
- Artificial blood vessels made on a 3D printer may soon be used for organ transplants of lab-created organs
- A Point of View: Can religion tell us more than science?
- Shake, rattle and … power up?
  
  A new MEMS device generates energy from small vibrations.
- NASA'S new rocket: Finally going somewhere
- George Church on the Future of Stem Cells
  
  Q&A with the Harvard geneticist.
- An Immune System Trained to Kill Cancer
- Printing off the paper
  
  MIT research continues to push the boundaries of the burgeoning technology of 3-D printing.
- Dead NASA Satellite Falling From Space, But When & Where?
- Amazing Timelapse Video of Earth from the Space Station
- Intel runs PC on CPU powered by solar cell
  
  Intel shows an experimental chip that can run at under 10 milliwatts
- Scientists take first step towards creating ‘inorganic life’
- Smartphone Brain Scanner
  
  a fully functional smartphone brain scanner consisting of a low-cost 14-channel EEG headset with a wireless connection to a smartphone (Nokia N900)
- Installed Cost of Solar Photovoltaic Systems in the U.S. Declined Significantly in 2010 and 2011
  
  Berkeley Lab releases “Tracking the Sun IV,” a report on PV systems from 1998 to 2010.
- How to synthesize a new kind of yeast cell — or person
- Catching a Breath – Wirelessly
  
  NONINVASIVE METHOD TO WATCH FOR SIDS, HELP SURGERY PATIENTS
- Nick Herbert as Doctor Jabir 'abd al-Khaliq reads Quantum Tantric Verse
September 13, 2011
- Phase one of first commercial spaceport 90% complete
- Streetbook
  
  How Egyptian and Tunisian youth hacked the Arab Spring.
- Sept. 13, 1899: New Yorker Becomes First U.S. Pedestrian Killed by Car
- Software tricks people into thinking it is human
- Cellular biocomputer diagnoses and zaps cancer
  
  Researchers led by ETH professor Yaakov Benenson and MIT professor Ron Weiss have successfully incorporated a diagnostic biological “computer” network in human cells. This network recognizes certain cancer cells using logic combinations of five cancer-spe
- Nanosensors Made from DNA May Light Path to New Cancer Tests and Drugs
- Engineered molecule detects cancer cell death
  
  Efficient, economical molecule could speed evaluation of some anti-cancer treatments
- Are jobs obsolete?
- Ultra-light nanocables may replace copper for chip interconnects and power lines
- The Next Wave of Botnets Could Descend from the Skies
  
  Researchers are developing hacking drones that could build a wireless botnet or track someone via cell phone.
- Scripps Research Scientists Produce First Stem Cells From Endangered Species in Hopes of Strengthening Populations
- ADOBE® CAROUSEL
  
  Mac OS and iOS app takes photo editing/sharing to the cloud
- Sony intros 4K projector for home theaters
- Born to be Viral: Robot octopus shakes your hand
- Powerful magnets hamper our ability to lie
- Singularity University Founder Runs a School for Startups
- Algorithmic stock trading rapidly replacing humans, warns government paper
  
  Regulatory framework needs to be updated to keep pace with effects of technology
- Spare CPU cycles to be used to further radio astronomy
  
  TheSkyNet project will use the idle time of thousands of PCs to create grid computing power to process massive radio astronomy data sets
- No end of fun: Make your own video games
  
  Allowing anyone to design compelling video games and characters could open up a new world of gaming
- Is Sponge Bob destroying kids’ minds — or accelerating their intelligence?
- Make It, Don’t Fake It, With This CNC Rig
  
  Tormach PCNC 770 $6400 and up
- 9/11: Explosive Evidence -- Experts Speak Out (Full)
  
  A new documentary film by Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. Just in time for the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. 9/11/11
- Video: Filmmaker Rob Spence's Implanted Bionic Camera Eyeball Is Up and Running
- Comet hitting Sun
- Secunia
September 6, 2011
- Novel Alloy Could Produce Hydrogen Fuel from Sunlight
- Hubble Movies Provide Unprecedented View of Supersonic Jets from Young Stars
- Word association: Princeton study matches brain scans with complex thought
- How Microsoft Researchers Might Invent a Holodeck
- Cracking cellulose: a step into the biofuels future
  
  Scientists from the University of York have played a pivotal role in a discovery which could finally unlock the full potential of waste plant matter to replace oil as a fuel source.
- Quantum minds: Why we think like quarks
- How the Starz-Netflix Divorce Will Remake Video
- Air Force awards $25K to inventor of insanely fast device that stops fleeing cars
  
  Retired engineer nabs $25k Air Force prize for technology that stops high-speed car chases
- FLOATEC project develops new floating house technology for low-lying countries
- PayPal Co-Founder to Fund Offshore Libertarian Utopia
- GPS Receivers Now Small Enough to Attach to Literally Anything
  
  Entire GPS systems, including batteries and wireless transmitters for downloading data, are now no bigger than a coin
- Toshiba Adds Wi-Fi To Flash Card
- Google patents a glove for ‘seeing with your hand’
- NASA needs strategic plan to manage orbital debris efforts
- San Francisco Police Assist Apple To Recover ‘Lost Item’
- Amazon's Next Tablet Will Be A Blockbuster
- the ipad 2 movie maker case for lighting and addons
- Apple searching for product security managers after 2nd lost iPhone prototype
August 30, 2011
- Federal Court Says You Can Record the Cops
- New body 'liquefaction' unit unveiled in Florida funeral home
- Intel Agencies Scramble to Aid Irene Response, Cleanup:
- Why Google+ will never back down on real names
- Cryptocurrency
  
  The bitcoin, a virtual medium of exchange, could be a real alternative to government-issued money—but only if it survives hoarding by speculators.
- WikiLeaks Springs a Leak: Full Database of Diplomatic Cables Appears Online
- Now anyone can design and evolve 3-D printable objects interactively
- IBM Builds Biggest Data Drive Ever
- Fukushima Robot Operator Writes Tell-All Blog
- Human gait could soon power portable electronics
- CNN Acquires Zite, an iPad App Company
- Elgan: How Apple will kill cable TV
- A Low-Cost, Low-Power DIY Cellular Data Network
- A planet made of diamond
- Live Burning Man Feed
- Astrophysicists report first simulation to create a Milky Way-like galaxy
  
  Supercomputer experiment supports cosmological model of a "cold dark matter" universe
- Greg Panos - Guest Futurist
- Mystery Guest of this Week
August 23, 2011
- Faster organic semiconductors for flexible displays can be developed quickly with new method, say Stanford researchers
  
  A team led by researchers at Stanford and Harvard universities has not only created a new material for high-speed organic semiconductors, it has come up with a new approach that can take months, even years, off the development timeline.
- Sending the Police Before There’s a Crime
- Computational method predicts new uses for existing medicines
  
  For the first time ever, scientists are using computers and genomic information to predict new uses for existing medicines.
- IBM produces first working chips modeled on the human brain
- Malicious Spam on the increase again
- Running robot: MABEL is now the world's fastest two-legged robot with knees
- Google Street View services to capture the Amazon next
- Lulzsec leader: a 21st Century Billy The Kid?
- Modified ecstasy 'attacks blood cancers'
  
  Modified ecstasy could one day have a role to play in fighting some blood cancers, according to scientists.
- PayPal Co-Founder to Fund Offshore Libertarian Utopia
- Nanotube-based supercapacitor-battery works in extreme conditions
  
  Solid-state energy storage takes a leap forward
- Weed sequenced. No really — weed.
- New method detects emerging sunspots deep inside the sun, provides warning of dangerous solar flares, say Stanford researchers
  
  Sunspots spawn solar flares that can cause billions of dollars in damage to satellites, communications networks and power grids. But Stanford researchers have developed a way to detect incipient sunspots as deep as 65,000 kilometers inside the sun, provid
- iPhone app developer Mark Buchanon
  
  Our guest's home page
August 16, 2011
- Motorola + Sprint = Google's AT&T, Verizon and Comcast Killer
- Suzanne Gildert on Hack the Multiverse!, OpenQwaq, August 21 2011, 10am PST
- The Montreal Amphi-bus Tours, a Really Unique, Fun Way to See Montreal
- Hybrid Solar System Makes Rooftop Hydrogen
- ‘Anonymous’ plans to ‘destroy’ Facebook on Nov. 5
- Press Release: Disney, Carnegie Mellon Researchers Build 3D Face Models That Give Animators Intuitive Control of Expressions
  
  Data-driven Approach Sub-divides Model Into Independently Trained Regions
- Jordan theme park treks ahead
  
  $1.5 billion Star Trek attraction in Jordan planned
- First direct biological evidence found for genetic contribution to intelligence
- Making biofuels 10 times faster
  
  Metabolism in reverse: Making biofuels at full-throttle pace Rice University engineers reverse E. coli metabolism for speedy production of fuels, chemicals
- How ‘augmented reality’ will make cities beautiful
- DARPA flight test of world’s fastest aircraft fails
- After 30 years, IBM says PC going way of vacuum tube and typewriter
  
  Post-PC era? Microsoft says no
- LinkedIn pulls Facebook-style stunt
  
  Privacy invasion by default
- Lasers could power drones in flight or launch rockets
- Travel to Near-Space in a 400-Foot Diameter Balloon
- Robot 'Mission Impossible' wins video prize
- Denise Galant, video artist extrodinaire
- BookLamp Launches a Pandora For Books
- Steve, Please Buy Us A Carrier!
- Activists shut down 4 San Francisco transit stations after Anonymous calls for protests
- Santa Cruz Community TV Station
  
  See Denise Gallant's productions
August 09, 2011
- BlackBerry Website Hacked as Company Pledges to Help Cops Find Brit Rioters
- Did a New Taliban Weapon Kill a Chopper Full of Navy SEALs?
- UCSD Researchers Modify Kinect Gaming Device to Scan in 3D
- Transmitting high-speed data via LED room lights
  
  Data are traveling by light
- Dream screens from graphene
  
  Graphene-based thin films may lead to flexible displays
- How to remotely hack into Wi-Fi networks and cell-phone calls
- Think Faster
  
  A review of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes-style research into brain boosting.
- You (YOU!) Can Take Stanford's 'Intro to AI' Course Next Quarter, For Free
  
  . For the first time, you can take this course, along with several hundred Stanford undergrads, without having to fill out an application, pay tuition, or live in a dorm.
- Beyond Cell Phone Wallets, Biometrics Promise Truly Wallet-Free Future
  
  The rollout of NFC payments in the U.S. has been so sluggish that a superior technology—biometrics—is about to catch up.
- Body-Mounted Cameras Turn Motion Capture Inside Out
  
  "Mocap" No Longer Confined to Studio, Say Disney, Carnegie Mellon Researchers
- 3D Printing and The Replicator Economy
- Big DIY: The Year the Maker Movement Broke
- Our Universe May Be a Giant Hologram
  
  Physicist Brian Greene explains how properties at the black hole’s surface—its event horizon—suggest the unsettling theory that our world is a mere representation of another universe, a shadow of the realm where real events take place.
- World's largest stop-motion animation made with phones
- Start-up to release 'stone-like' optical disc that lasts forever
  
  New optical disc aims for consumer market first, then corporate archives
- Tactile Technology Guaranteed to Send Shivers Down Your Spine
- NASA Research Shows DNA Building Blocks Can Be Made in Space
- Ring of Antimatter Found in Earth's Orbit
- Energy Storage for Solar Power
  
  Startup Brightsource announces a new system that could allow future solar plants to run at night.
Aug 2, 2011
- Southampton engineers fly the world’s first ‘printed’ aircraft
- Graphene Nanocomposite a Bridge to Better Batteries
  
  Berkeley Lab researchers create graphene nanocomposite for high energy storage
- Someday Your Brain Could Brake for You
  
  For the first time, researchers have used brain signals to predict when a driver is about to slam on the brakes.
- Building a Subversive Grassroots Network
  
  How Commotion Wireless plans to enable digital communication in the face of an Internet shutdown
- Bionic microrobot mimics the “water strider” and walks on water
  
  Bioinspired Aquatic Microrobot Capable of Walking on Water Surface Like a Water Strider”
- Caltech Engineers Develop One-way Transmission System for Sound Waves
- The World's Deadliest Distinction
  
  Why aren't the oldest living people getting any older?
- Minority rules: Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas
- Sharper, Deeper, Faster: Interdisciplinary Team Develops Advanced Live-Imaging Approach
- Post-PC TV: How and Where We Watch Netflix, Hulu and YouTube
- App Lets You Earn Cash From Your Carpool
- Rice builds nanowire battery
  
  Hybrid energy storage device is as small as it can possibly get
- Solar cells get a boost from bouncing light
  
  A new twist on an old solar cell design sends light ricocheting through layers of microscopic spheres, increasing its electricity-generating potential by 26 percent.
- Sun-free photovoltaics
  
  Materials engineered to give off precisely tuned wavelengths of light when heated are key to new high-efficiency generating system.
- The Millennium Project’s 2011 State of the Future Report
- How to make solar power 24/7
  
  MIT team designs concentrated solar thermal system that could store heat in vats of molten salts, supplying constant power.
- New Layar Vision Recognises Real Objects And Displays AR Objects On Top
- Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps Outsmarting Apple
- Someone Finally Made A Browser Extension That Helps You Find The Tab Making Noise
- iPhone Maker Foxconn Employs 1M Robots to Do Grunt Work
- Joe Jordan Bio
- Carl Reuter, our local solar guy
July 26, 2011
- Inside the innards of a nuclear reactor
  
  Tiny robots may monitor underground pipes for radioactive leaks.
- The Shuttle's Successors
  
  Heirs to the shuttle /CST-100 /Dragon Dream Chaser /MPCV /Space vehicle
- A Semiconductor DNA Sequencer
  
  Unlike other systems, Ion Torrent's technology promises to improve in step with advances in electronics—and it's already proving useful for public health.
- OUT-THERE SCIENCE
  
  Group has spent 30 years exploring ideas like UFOs, psychokinesis
- Matt Smith on Keeping Doctor Who ‘Trippy and Psychedelic’
- Chinese Officials Demand Closure of Two Imitation Apple Stores
- Caltech Researchers Create the First Artificial Neural Network Out of DNA
  
  Molecular Soup Exhibits Brainlike Behavior
- First Demonstration of Time Cloaking
  
  Physicists have created a "hole in time" using the temporal equivalent of an invisibility cloak.
- Be Still My Eyebrows
  
  Researchers say liars under scrutiny can't completely suppress facial expressions
- Favreau Reinvents Western Genre in Cowboys & Aliens
- Wolfram Launches Computable Document Format (CDF): Bring Documents to Life with the Power of Computation
  
  As everyday as a document, but as interactive as an app, the new standard dramatically broadens the author-reader communication pipeline
- FOUNDER OF CRYONICS MOVEMENT DIES, IS FROZEN AT CRYONICS INSTITUTE
- Guest Dr. James Fadiman's home page
July 19, 2011
- How phone hacking worked and how to make sure you're not a victim
- Apple To Launch Mac OS X Lion & New MacBook Air Wednesday
- How a New Police Tool for Face Recognition Works
- Caught in a dragnet
  
  A fraud prevention system erroneously revoked his license, and now he’s suing for his hardship
- Scribd Debuts Float, A Netflix-Style Competitor To Pulse, Flipboard, Instapaper
- New Directory Makes It Easy To Find Public Google+ Hangouts
- Soft Memory Device Opens Door To New Biocompatible Electronics
- Flying sphere goes where humans fear to tread
  
  Its Japanese developers call it the "Futuristic Circular Flying Object" and it's designed to go where humans can't.
- Jawbone Announces Up, A Wristband To Track Health, Fight Obesity
- Organic v. Monsanto
  
  More than 270,000 organic farmers are taking on corporate agriculture giant Monsanto in a lawsuit
- Do Robots Take People's Jobs?
- Safer Robots Will Improve Manufacturing
  
  Robots have been considered too unpredictable and dangerous to work alongside humans in factories. Advances in artificial sensing and motion could change that.
- Researchers Demystify a Fountain of Youth in the Adult Brain
- Cannabinoid receptors protect against aging
- Sex and the Red Queen hypothesis
- Meet the ‘Keyzer Soze’ of Global Phone-Tracking
- Ford Proves the Blind Can Drive a Stick
- The Trillions of Microbes That Call Us Home—and Help Keep Us Healthy
  
  The human body is a habitat for a huge range of harmless and beneficial microbes, which may be the key to fighting disease without antibiotics.  
- Neanderthals Mated With Humans Outside of Africa
- Where to 'Hang Out' on Google Plus
  
  Current Google Plus Hangouts to visit, most with video..
July 12, 2011
- Google Makes Facebook Look Socially Awkward
- The Future of Mobile Payments [INFOGRAPHIC]
- Single stem cell capable of regenerating the entire blood system found
- Air Power: New Device Captures Ambient Electromagnetic Energy to Drive Small Electronic Devices
- Can taking probiotics improve your mental health?
- Bionic glasses for poor vision
- How to Liver Forever - Movie
  
  Featuring: Ray Bradbury, Aubrey de Grey, Phyllis Diller, Ray Kurzweil, Jack LaLanne, John Robbins, Willard Scott, Suzanne Somers, Marianne Williamson and Buster Martin
- How to measure emotions
- Control your home with thought alone
- The Riveting BioShock Infinite Footage That Swept E3 Awards
  
  Not for the feint of heart...
- Texting While Driving Still Kills, But It’s on the (Slight) Decline
- Guest- Lon Milo Duquette
  
  World renowned Magikican
July 5, 2011
- Hippie Days
  
  How a handful of countercultural scientists changed the course of physics in the 1970s and helped open up the frontier of quantum information.
- The Rosetta Project Is Preserving Every Language Ever Spoken, On One Nano-Etched Piece Of Metal
- Top Ten Reasons Newspapers are Dying
- Massive botnet 'indestructible,' say researchers
  
  4.5M-strong botnet 'most sophisticated threat today' to Windows PCs
- Japan scientist synthesizes meat from human feces
- Researchers Track Cell Phones Indoors By Listening In
- President to conduct first Twitter town hall on July 6th
- Lytro Launches to Transform Photography with $50M in Venture Funds (TCTV)
- Wide Angle Camera Mounted on Firework POV
- Kinect knows what you are doing...
- Samsung Windfall: All of South Korea's Textbooks to Go Digital by 2015
  
  South Korea will redefine primary school education within three years while creating a massive market for home-grown electronics
- Inkjet printing could change the face of solar energy industry
- Internet 'victim of vicious smear campaign', finds report
  
  Has Google been making us stupid? Are young people nothing but mindless husks, helplessly addicted to Facebook?
- Western Researchers can predict future actions from human brain activity
- New technique advances bioprinting of cells
- How to remote-control a robot on another planet
- 3 Google+ features Facebook should fear, plus stereotyping
- Scientists develop sensitive skin for robots
- Acoustic 'cloaking device' shields objects from sound
June 28, 2011
- Power grid change may disrupt clocks
- Genome Wowser
  
  Genome Wowser provides an iPad-enabled view of the human genome
- Volkswagen Shows Off Self-Driving Auto Pilot Technology For Cars
- Carnegie Mellon Engineering Professors Create World's Smallest Fuel Cell Powered By Biology
  
  Outstanding Research Supports Work To Develop Renewable Energy Using Bacteria and Microtechnology
- UCLA scientists accurately predict age using just a saliva sample
- Is the Rise of Wearable Electronics Finally Here?
- Analyst: Apple's iCloud could see 150 million users
- Apple's Pre-Emptive Strike Against Free Speech
  
  Late last week reports uncovered a plan by Apple, manufacturer of the iPhone, to patent technology that can detect when people are using their phone cameras and shut them down.
- Maesyn sings Hit the Road Jack from Heart Bliss at the Mothership
- Tech Reporter Shannon Leonard's You Tube Channel
June 21, 2011
- What Physics Owes the Counterculture
- Kilobots Are Cheap Enough to Swarm in the Thousands
- After an Apocalypse, What's Left of Digital Stores of Knowledge?
  
  Our existing information technology infrastructure is surprisingly robust, at least for now. But what's left if something really big happens?
- Hacktivist group seeks 'satisfaction'
- Coming to TV screens of the future: A sense of smell
  
  A research breakthrough toward odor-generating TV
- White House Promotes a Smarter Grid
  
  But some consumers, concerned about rising prices and privacy, would rather their electricity meters stayed dumb.
- Let software choose the soundtrack to your pictures
- NASA to Launch Robot Gas Station Experiment on Final Shuttle Flight
- Google Introduces Voice Search and Search by Image
- ‘Smart cars’ that are actually, well, smart
  
  Mechanical engineers work to develop intelligent onboard transportation systems that can prevent car crashes.
- New Media 360 degree movie of Vancouver Riots
- Feedback Loops Are Changing What People Do
  
  Feedback loops are powerful tools that can help people change bad behavior. Just as important, they can encourage good habits, turning progress itself into a reward.
June 14, 2011
- Amazon to Connecticut, Arkansas: ‘Drop Dead’ Over Sales Tax
- 3D-printed bikini goes on sale
- Technology for ‘Shadow’ Internet Networks
- Can evolution outpace climate change?
- A Cell Becomes a Laser
  
  makes it easier to develop direct human-to-machine interfaces
- 3-D movie shows, for the first time, what happens in the brain as it loses consciousness
- Pool-playing robot rivals humans
- Apple plans new 'spaceship'-like campus
  
  Apple wants to put up a single, circular building to house 12,000 employees on a new campus in Cupertino
- Where's my Holodeck? The latest interactive movie news
- The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization
June 7, 2011
- Apple Puts the Cloud into All Its Devices
  
  Photos, songs, and documents created on one Apple device will soon magically appear on others you own.
- Cyber Combat: Act of War
  
  Pentagon Sets Stage for U.S. to Respond to Computer Sabotage With Military Force
- Sony Sets Its Sights on Augmented Reality
  
  The future of mobile gaming will merge the virtual and real worlds.
- IARC CLASSIFIES RADIOFREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS AS POSSIBLY CARCINOGENIC TO HUMANS
- Global Internet Traffic Projected to Quadruple by 2015
  
  Cisco Visual Networking Index Projects Network-Connected Devices Will Outnumber People 2 to 1; a Million Minutes of Internet Video to Be Transmitted Per Second
- USC Study Locates the Source of Key Brain Function
- Color Red Increases the Speed and Strength of Reactions
- Want to Solve a Problem? Don’t Just Use Your Brain, but Your Body Too
- Blue goo sucks up toxic waste
- Jetpack soars a mile high
- New battery design could give electric vehicles a jolt
  
  Significant advance in battery architecture could be breakthrough for electric vehicles and grid storage.
- The National Academies Press Makes All PDF Books Free to Download; More Than 4,000 Titles Now Available Free to All Readers
- If A Primordial Black Hole Hits The Sun...
  
  we should be able to see the oscillations generated by the collision, say astrophysicists
- Google Heats Up Solar R&D To Diversify Business and Save Money
- Eyez™ by ZionEyez HD Video Recording Glasses for Facebook
- A letter from Ray Kurzweil | Supporting an endeavor that will benefit over one billion people within 10 years
- The Harmony Festival 2011
- TEDx Santa Cruz 2011
May 31, 2011
- New audio coding system solves audio latency problem
- New imaging method allows scientists to identify specific mental states
- 'Guide vests' -- robotic navigation aids for the visually impaired
- Born to be Viral: Transformer turns into a helicopter
- Quantum sensor tracked in human cells could aid drug discovery
- ESF Produces ‘Next Generation of Biofuels’
- Facebook to assemble global team of 'diplomats'
- ‘Survival protein’ protects the brain against effects of stroke
  
  Johns Hopkins team discovers brain defense in mice and a possible new strategy for treating neurologic disorders
- Apple of my eye? US fancies a huge metaphor repository
  
  The US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity building a system to understand human metaphorical speech
- Brain scans reveal why some people feel your pain
- Make your phone your wallet
- The Revolutionary New Birth Control Method for Men
May 24, 2011
- New Studies Reveal Stunning Evidence that Cell Phone Radiation Damages DNA, Brain and Sperm
- Tepco admits further meltdowns at Fukushima
- INNOVEGA Visualizing the digital world
- Aurasma app is augmented reality, augmented
- World record in ultra-rapid data transmission
  
  26 terabits per second on a single laser beam
- Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle Books Than Print Books
- What Are the Treatments for Cancer Using Nanotechnology?
- Discovery opens the door to electricity from microbes
  
  Using bacteria to generate energy is a significant step closer following a breakthrough discovery by scientists at the University of East Anglia.
- Mammals First Evolved Big Brains for Better Sense of Smell
- The World’s Smallest 3D Printer
  
  A research project at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) could turn futuristic 3D-printers into affordable everyday items.
- When Will Scientists Grow Meat in a Petri Dish
  
  A handful of scientists aim to satisfy the world's growing appetite for steak without wrecking the planet.
- Physics, With Wormholes by You
  
  Warning: This is about a brain game. If you don’t consider thinking hard to be an entertainment experience, Portal 2 is not for you.
- Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir
- Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform
  
  based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
May 17, 2011
- Visa Digital Wallet Accelerates Mobile-Payments Race
- Gadhafi’s New Weapon: Floating Bombs Filled With Dummies
- Google Music launches without label deals
- Iris recognition gadget eliminates passwords
- 3-D Art for All: Ready to Print
- THE SECRET SHARER
  
  Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state?
- Design the best medical Tricorder and win $10 million
  
  Win the Tricorder X PRIZE, a $10 million prize to develop a mobile solution that can diagnose patients better than or equal to a panel of board certified physicians
- Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'
  
  The cosmologist shares his thoughts on death, M-theory, human purpose and our chance existence
- ‘Smart’ cities will likely link devices intelligently
- Digital imaging software creates a ‘Google Earth’ view of the bladder
- A Virtual View beneath the Skin
  
  A device that projects anatomical images onto the body could help patients "see" their injuries—and encourage them to do their exercises.
- Surprising findings from studies of spontaneous brain activity
- Sharing Information Corrupts Wisdom of Crowds
  
  When people can learn what others think, the wisdom of crowds may veer towards ignorance
- Ford, Google Team Up to Make Smarter Cars
- The Maker Faire - Bay Area 2011
  
  The World's Largest DIY Festival
- DIY Lasers Are Irresistibly Dangerous
- Dr. Future's Maker Faire guest Sabrina Merlo
  
  When pipe dreams come alive / Maker Faire lets amateur inventors strut their creations
- Dan Burkholder - iPhone artistry in Photography
May 10, 2011
- Japan radiation monitoring goes crowdsourced
- Nuclear collapse looms? Fukushima No. 4 reactor 'leaning'
  
  interview with Dr. Robert Jacobs - Video report
- Speeding swarms of sensor robots
  
  A new algorithm ensures that robotic environmental sensors will be able to focus on areas of interest without giving other areas short shrift.
- Microsoft Buys Skype for $8.5 Billion. Why, Exactly?
- Stroke diagnosis using iPhone app extremely accurate study finds
- Flexible phone made from electronic paper to debut The PaperPhone is used by being bent or written upon. Continue reading the main story Related Stories Digital book sales soar in the UK Google eyes Apple in tablet war Colour e-readers shift to video
  
  A prototype flexible smartphone made of electronic paper has been created by Canadian researchers.
- Robert Vamosi: Gadgets degrade our common sense
- The next generation of E-ink may be on cloth
- New evidence that caffeine is a healthful antioxidant in coffee
- Better glasses-free 3-D
- Talking to the Wall
  
  An experimental interface from Microsoft turns any wall into an interactive surface.
- Portable tech might provide drinking water, power to villages
- Solar power, with a side of hot running water
  
  New system for flat-panel solar power could be combined with hot water systems for greater performance.
- Famed Spaceship-Maker Gives Spy Drones a Try
- Talk with a dolphin via underwater translation machine
- Guest- Jonathna Quintin on Sacred Geometry
- Night of the Alien Film
- Santa Cruz Film Festival 2011
May 3, 2011
- Osama Takedown Sets Twitter Record
- Osama Bin Laden: Why Geronimo?
- Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Ishikawa of JNTI Talks about Reactor Core Conditions
- What will happen to us?
  
  Forecasters tackle the extremely deep future
- Measuring the Distant Universe in 3-D
  
  Berkeley Lab-led BOSS proves it can do the job with quasars
- Augmented reality goes beyond gimmicks for business
- Privacy Lost: The Amazing Benefits of the Completely Examined Life
  
  http://www.pcworld.com/article/226667/privacy_lost_the_amazing_benefits_of_the_completely_examined_life.html
- Apple updates the iMac: Thunderbolt I/O, quad-core and more
- Could virtual sex be the Kinect’s killer app?
- Forever online: Your digital legacy
  
  Your photos, status updates and tweets will fascinate future historians. Will these online remains last forever?
- Single atom stores quantum information
- New device puts vision impaired in the picture
- Can traumatic memories be erased?
- Cybercriminals Using Osama Bin Laden's Death to Spread Malware
- Welcome to the Santa Cruz Film Festival
April 26, 2011
- Can Hobbyists and Hackers Transform Biotechnology?
  
  In his new book Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life, Marcus Wohlsen explores the new movement in garage-based biotech.
- Out of thick air
  
  MIT graduate student is working to make water available for the world’s poor by refining the tools and techniques of fog harvesting.
- Carnegie Mellon Researchers Build Time Machine That Allows Visual Exploration of Space and Time
  
  Time-lapse GigaPans Provide New Way To Access Big Data
- Japanese robots await call to action
- How Bacteria Could Generate Radio waves
  
  The notion that bacteria can transmit radio waves is controversial. But physicists now say they know how it could be done
- In Hugh Jackman's 'Real Steel,' the robot titans go pugilistic
- Apple, Google Collect User Data
- Evolution of human 'super-brain' tied to development of bipedalism, tool-making
- Imagine: Material That If Scratched, You Can Quickly and Easily Fix Yourself, With Light Not Heat
- Music training may provide lifelong boost in brain functioning
  
  Research explores possible link between early musical study and cognitive benefits
- Cloud Computing's Tipping Point
  
  Half of federal agencies will be in the cloud within 12 months, according to our new cloud computing survey.
- Google Invites You to Edit the U.S. Map
- New open-source encyclopedia catalogs the human genome
  
  Decoding Human Genes is the Goal of a New Open-Source Encyclopedia
- To tug hearts, music first must tickle the neurons
- Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color Becomes a Full-On Android Tablet
- Weddar Report: iPhone App Is Twitter for Weather
- We Are All Cylons Explores Deeper Side of Battlestar Galactica Fandom
- 20 Things You Didn't Know About... Kissing
- Budget crunch mothballs telescopes built to search for alien signals
- Official ET Disclosure or disinfo? "NSA Document Decodes ET transmission"
  
  Regarding a decoding given to the NSA by Dr. Howard Campaigne regarding the decoding of extraterrestrial messages that had been received
- Actual NSA key to purported ET transmission of Periodic Table
- MIT Researchers Use Viruses To Build More Efficient Solar Panels
- The Merry Pranksters of Microcomputing
  
  Captain Crunch's early exploits with the founders of Apple.
- Save the Frogs Day this Friday
- The Millennium Simulation
  
  Very cool simulation of the universe!
April 19, 2011
- Packbots explore stricken reactor
  
  iRobot devices gather data on radiation
- Libyan Rebels Restore Cell Phone Access With Daring Technical Gambit
- Comcast Rolls Out 105 Mbps 'Extreme' Broadband Service
- Microsoft adds Kinect support for Netflix
- YouTube unveils live-streaming service
  
  After making its mark with pre-recorded videos, YouTube takes business live
- Human+: forecasting our future
- Is iPhone Murdering Point-and-Shoots?
- Trimensional 3D Scanner for iPhone
- Solar power without solar cells: A hidden magnetic effect of light could make it possible
- Quantum teleporter breakthrough
- ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE ANNOUNCES FIRST COMPREHENSIVE GENE MAP OF THE HUMAN BRAIN
  
  The Allen Human Brain Atlas reveals more than 90 percent similarity among humans and details genes at work throughout the brain to advance scientific research and medical outcomes
- Your brain signals can drive how the movie ends
- Brain Research Helps Unlock Secrets of Learning
  
  Stimulation Shown to Improve Potential to Learn New Skills in Lab Tests
- NC State Develops Material To Remove Radioactive Contaminants From Drinking Water
- Fukushima and Chernobyl: Same Level on Disaster Scale; Very Different Disasters
- Strange Japan Earthquake footage
- Eat Think and Be Merry
- Guest, inventor Chuck Colby's website
- Top 5 Mad Scientists
- Sony releases Crackle on the App Store
April 12, 2011
- Japan equates nuclear crisis severity to Chernobyl
- Secret Weapons Program Inside Fukushima Nuclear Plant?
  
  U.S.-Japan security treaty fatally delayed nuclear workers' fight against meltdown
- Buildings Made with a Printer
  
  A novel approach to design and construction could save materials and energy, and create unusually beautiful structures
- NASA Telescopes Join Forces to Observe Unprecedented Explosion
- Political views are reflected in brain structure
- A Browser that Speaks Your Language
  
  The latest version of Google's Chrome shows the potential of HTML5
- The next Napster? Copyright questions as 3D printing comes of age
- "America 2049": Social change via Facebook games
  
  Human rights organization Breakthrough has created an alternative reality puzzle that hits us where we live: Online
- Time Lapse Northern Lights over Norway
- Demystifying meditation -- brain imaging illustrates how meditation reduces pain
- For Some Entrepreneurs, Moon Is Money
- The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss!
- MLD Test Moves Navy a Step Closer to Lasers for Ship Self-Defense
- UFO's this week over Oahu
  
  intriquing, and quite well done, if fake..
- NZ researchers build wearable generators
  
  Lighter, more flexible electronics for 'artificial muscles'.
- Augmented Reality Comes Closer to Reality
  
  Towards a Talking Newspaper
- ‘No more Chinese time-travel dramas’ — they disrespect history
- 3-D Avatars Could Put You in Two Places at Once
- Guest- Noah Wardrip-Fruin bio
- UCSC Game expert guest, Jane Pinckard
April 5, 2011
- Film Preview | Source Code movie combines mind-uploading, parallel universes, time travel, simulated reality
- U.S. to send radiation-hardened robots to Japan
  
  Remote-controlled robots will be used at damaged Fukushima Daiichi facility
- UW astrophysicist: White dwarfs could be fertile ground for other Earths
- Happy 30th Birthday to the Portable PC
- Ancient Greek Computer Had Surprising Sun Tracker
- Earth's gravity revealed in unprecedented detail
  
  Best view yet of global gravity
- What would public broadcasting do with $178 billion?
- 12 BEST Kinect HACKS
- Mobile-App Makers Face U.S. Privacy Investigation
- Guest Charles Ostmann - Historian of the Future
- New augmented reality app unleashes your inner artist
- New research explains autistic's exceptional visual abilities
  
  Mapping data shows enhanced activity in the 'perception' part of the brain
- Unlocking the Gates: How and Why Leading Universities Are Opening Up Access to Their Courses
- Hackers Turn a Gmail April Fool’s Joke Into a Reality
- Indie Musicians Record Entire Album With GarageBand for iPad
- Mrs. Future's first iPad2 movie - The Trash-N-Fashion Show
March 29, 2011
- E-readers become more like tablets with access to Android store
- The $41 Million Free App COLOR
- Festo Launches SmartBird Robotic Seagull
- iMobot rolls, crawls and creeps
- Can Next-Generation Reactors Power a Safe Nuclear Future?
- Research shows not only the fittest survive
- The First Plastic Computer Processor
  
  Two recent developments—a plastic processor and printed memory—show that computing doesn't have to rely on inflexible silicon.
- X-ray technique peers beneath archaeology's surface
- EPA finds ‘slightly higher’ radiation levels in US
- Debut of the first practical “artificial leaf”
- Short film Blinky | an AI robot takes fatal cues from its human family
- Rome Lab's supercomputer is made up of 1,700 off-the-shelf PlayStation 3 gaming consoles
- Quantum physics explanation for smell gains traction
- Robots to the Rescue in Japan
- Nano-electrodes may lead to phones that charge in seconds, electric cars in minutes
- Neurons grow into semiconductor tubes: future intelligent chips?
- First Lens to Produce Nanometre Images With Visible light
  
  A lens made of frosted glass is the secret behind this entirely new type of microscopy
- Drillers propose deep-Earth quest
- Meet 'Future You.' Like What You See?
  
  New 'Virtual Reality' Techniques Could Help Solve The Age-Old Problem of Saving for Retirement
- Prestigious TEDx Talks Come to Santa Cruz June 11
  
  TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design, and the nonprofit brings in the outliers, doers of great deeds, people who may do great things but aren't necessarily in the public eye.
March 22, 2011
- Earthquake Apps
- The megaquake connection: Are huge earthquakes linked?
- Biosensors On The Fast Track
  
  Regulators join forces with developers to speed up approval of transformative devices
- Wearable Scanner Opens New Frontier in Neuroscience
- Nuclear radiation paranoid’s handy reference
- Drones’ Suicidal Cousins Lead Libya Attack
- AT&T to Buy T-Mobile, Becomes No. 1 U.S. Wireless Company
- Scientists discover major clue in long-term memory making
- 'Limitless' asks a surprisingly relevant ethical question: What happens when drugs make us smarter?
- Dr. Mohsen video at Phiversity
- Seeing in stereo: Engineers invent lens for 3-D microscope
- Lab Scientists Allay Fears About U.S. Health Risks From Crisis in Japan
March 15, 2011
- Google Crises Response Page
  
  Japanese Emergency Info
- Key People Twittering Japan Earthquake Info
- Nuke test sensors could hear tsunamis coming
- A Search Engine for the Human Body
  
  Microsoft software recognizes organs and other structures in medical images.
- Japan's Internet largely intact after earthquake, tsunami
- Criminals kick off Japanese disaster scams at record speed
  
  Use news of earthquake, tsunami to solicit donations, trick users into downloading fake AV software
- Soitec announces major U.S. CPV solar power project
  
  Tenaska Solar Ventures Selects Soitec’s Concentrix CPV Solar Power Technology To Produce 150 Megawatts of Clean Energy For San Diego Gas & Electric
- Berkeley Lab Scientists Achieve Breakthrough in Nanocomposite for High-Capacity Hydrogen Storage
- Study: The iPad is the Biggest Problem with iPad Magazines
- Surviving Radioactive Fallout & Radiation Contamination from Japan, Iran or North Korea
- Expensive lawyers replaced by cheaper software
- Invisible Wi-Fi signals caught on camera
- The Neural Mechanisms of Insight
- How to ‘print’ a nylon bike
- Touched by a robot
- TransModular Hospitals
  
  Website of guest Hallelujah Blessing
- The Tech Shop in San Francisco
March 8, 2011
- Rebecca Costa - this week's guest
  
  Author of "The Watchman's Rattle"
- Libya Internet Blackout Info
- Libyan events and footage Blog Anti Gov POV
- Twitter Dashboard for Tracking Middle East events
- TED 2011: Wael Ghonim — Voice of Egypt’s Revolution
- Sleepy Connected Americans
- Has your future been adjusted?
- Cave in moon:Base station for astronauts?
- Latest Geminoid Is Incredibly Realistic
- Alien Microbe Claim Starts Fight Over Meteorite
- Queen's develops new brain training app for research into aging minds
- UCI researchers find new light-sensing mechanism in neurons
- World's First Eye-controlled Laptop Presented At CeBIT 2011
- Facilitate Insight by Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation
- Powerful new ways to electronically mine research may lead to scientific breakthroughs
- Falling Demand for Brains?
- From ‘End of History’ Author, a Look at the Beginning and Middle
- Charlie Rose Interview of Ray Kurzweil
- A Bionic Eye Comes to Market
March 1, 2011

What's up with the Frogs?
- A Pacemaker the Size of a Tic Tac
  
  Medtronic is using microelectronics to make a pacemaker so small it can be injected
- The Libya War Plans (Slowly) Take Shape
- Drones Set to Invade National, State Parks
- Google changes algorithm of lower quality sites
- Robot marathon kicks off in Japan
- Cell Phone Use Affects Brain Glucose Metabolism
- What to Expect From Apple’s iPad 2.0 Event
- Most 'locked-in' people are happy, survey finds
- Virus-mimicking nanoparticles can stimulate long lasting immunity
- Exoplanet findings spark philosophical debate
- Brain doesn't need vision at all in order to 'read' material
- Microsoft’s Kinect: The New Mouse?
- Kurzweil AI now on Facebook
- Dr. Kerry Kriger
  
  Amphibian Expert
- The Wild World of Frogs
- Save The Frogs
February 22, 2011
- ‘Telecoupling’ describes how distance is shrinking and connections are strengthening between nature and humans
- Hot Off the Presses, New Skin for Burn Victims
- Mind control puts you in charge of driverless cars
- Obama Budget Includes $126 Million for Exascale Computing
- City to get RoboCop statue with fan funding
- AeroVironment Develops World’s First Fully Operational Life-Size Hummingbird-Like Unmanned Aircraft for DARPA
- Google Social Search Spreads to Fight Facebook
- humor | I am the very model of a Singularitarian
- Huge solar flare jams radio, satellite signals: NASA
- A Super Solar Flare
- Feb. 22, 1997: Hello, Dolly!
- Ted Nelson bio
- Watson wins research money from IBM
  
  IBM will split its total winnings between each of the following charities: World Vision: World Vision is an international humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential.
- Libya faces internet blackouts amid protest
- Cornell University scientists use 3D printer to engineer human ear made of silicone
February 15, 2011
- South Carolina scientist works to grow meat in lab
- The cyberweapon that could take down the internet
- A guide star lets scientists see deep into human tissue
- State Dept. taps Twitter to reach Iranians
- ‘Smartest Machine on Earth’ on NOVA
  
  “Jeopardy!” challenges even the best human minds. Can a computer win at “Jeopardy!”?
- Traditional Media Dominates The Twitter News Agenda: Study
- Jeopardy: IBM's Watson almost sneaks wrong answer by Trebek
- Stephanie Sutton's info
- Guest Keith Lampe's (Pondo) website
  
  Long time eco-activist
- Guest Dennis “galen” Mitrzyk website
- Bio for Brian O'Leary, one of our guests from Equador today
  
  These links will also be discussed. www.montesuenos.org drbrianoleary.wordpress.com montesuenos.wordpress.com
- Electronic toy turns human body into an instrument
- Introducing the Google Translate app for iPhone
  
  Google has launched the Google Translate for iPhone app, with all of the features of the web app, plus speech synthesis.
- China building a city for cloud computing
February 8, 2011

Verizon iPhone, Egypt Revolution, Open Leaks, Future of Libraries
- Verizon iPhone versus AT&T iPhone
- Secret Messages in the Digital Age
- Physicists use natural crystals to develop invisibility cloak
- Twitter Can’t Save You
- Former WikiLeaks Employees Start Their Own Leaks' Site
- RoboEarth teaches robots to learn from peers, pour European fruit beverages
- Bigelow to lease space habitats to clients in seven nations
- David Hanson's Incredible Robot Heads
- Julia Map generates fractals with just a browser
- Can complexity theory explain Egypt's crisis?
- Google lets you explore the world’s greatest museums in ‘street view’ mode
- NASA Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates In Habitable Zone, Six Planet System
- JOHNS HOPKINS RESEARCHERS DEVELOP SAFER WAY TO MAKE INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS
- Worldwide mobile data traffic will be 75 exabytes a year by 2015
- Sleep selectively stores useful memories
- Activism in the age of viral reality
- What’s New About The Daily? The Oldest Media Idea There Is
February 1, 2011

Access Egypt , Energy, and beyond
- How Egypt did (and your government could) shut down the Internet
- Egypt protesters use voice tweets
- Getting online in Egypt right now
- Al Jazeera Live TV from Egypt
- Unrest in Egypt and Imported Oil
- Building Solar Highways
- Hydrogen Fuel Cell Microbeads - Cheap hydrogen fuel for existing cars
- Nanodomes and Plasmonics
- App turns iPhone into a Smarter Camera
- Kinect-controlled robot
- Physicists call for alien messaging protocol
- South Carolina scientist works to grow meat in lab
- Cosmos At Least 250x Bigger Than Visible Universe, Say Cosmologist
- Blind Man Drives Car Independently
January 25, 2011

Desalinization, Laser rocketry, Android Sats, new Venture Capital ventures
- Monterey County gives green light to desalination plant
  
  An alternative view of the best way to create a sustainable watershed is offered by EcoArtist/Scholar/Professors Helen & Newton Harrison at http://www.theharrisonstudio.net/about.html
- How our desalinization plant works
- Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line purchase approved
  
  Stone and fellow commissioner John Leopold both traveled to Sacramento to speak to lawmakers about the project. “The acquisition of the Branch Rail Line assures us of pursuing transportation options for the community that can meet greenhouse gas emission
- Beaming Rockets into Space
  
  Summary: An advanced rocket propulsion concept calls for heating a rocket’s propellant by focusing energy on it from ground-based lasers or microwave sources. The technology could cut the cost of putting payloads into orbit by a factor of five or more.
- Smartphone-Powered Satellites Are Destined for Space Travel
- Study claims 100 percent renewable energy possible by 2030
- The Art of Failure
  
  Professor Zelkha's course in Venture Capital failures
- I'll buy that for a fiver!
  
  A successful crowd-sourcing work site
- Amazon's crowd-sourcing work site
- oDesk Business Crowd-Sourcing
  
  Hire, manage, and pay a distributed team as if everyone were in your office.
- Crowd-sourcing Design Work
  
  Logo design, web design & more
- Mindfulness meditation training changes brain structure in 8 weeks
  
  Mass. General-led study shows changes over time in areas associated with awareness, empathy, stress
- Book review | Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
- Bitcoin - a Step Toward Censorship-Resistant Digital Currency
- The Healing Power of Light: A polymer that mends itself
  
  Self healing machines are coming soon!
- Intelligent Community Forum Announces Top Seven Intelligent Communities of 2011
- Putting up a struggle against cancer
  
  Blood-vessel cells can combat aggressive tumors, helping to prevent them from spreading through the body, new study finds.
- Flexible screens expected to inspire a host of new devices
January 18, 2011

ATT vs Verizon, Freeze Steve, Neantherthal crossbreed, Junk Art Scramble
- 23andMe presents top 10 most interesting genetic findings of 2010
- Tweeting Tyrants Out of Tunisia: Global Internet at Its Best
- U.S. Copter Sales Can't Save Ousted Tunisia Dictator
- Population-wide reduction in salt consumption recommended
- Pot dispensary finds niche in expanding marketplace: ice cream
- Many iPhone Customers Want to Hop to Verizon, But They Probably Won’t
- Shifting Baseline Syndrome
- Fruit fly nervous system provides new solution to fundamental computer network problem
  
  Biologically derived method could help organize wireless sensor networks
- Fingerprints Go the Distance
  
  Scanning prints at two meters could mean safer security checks.
- Popular South Korean director uses iPhone 4 to film new movie
- A Test for 400 Inherited Diseases
  
  New technology will allow broad screening for prospective parents.
- Scorn over claim of teleported DNA
- Video goggles capture what you see in HD
- Fastest movie in the world recorded
  
  Scientists develop a method to film nanostructures
- Alcor update from Max More, new CEO
- We can feed 9 billion people in 2050
- The Search for a Clearer Voice
  
  How Google's Voice Search is getting so good.
- Carnegie Mellon researchers identify 'Facebook neurons'
  
  Population of highly active neurons could provide insight into the neocortex
- Smart contact lenses for health and head-up displays
- Mind gym: Putting meditation to the test
- SMALLEST PETROL ENGINE
- World Wide Internet TeleVision
  
  2441 Online TV channels listed
January 11, 2011

CES, Galen Brandt
- Verizon to Sell Apple IPad That Connects Directly to Its Network
  
  Dr. Future says THIS WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING IPHONE FOREVER!
- CES cool gadgets roundup
- Guide To Recycling Your Electronics
  
  Electronics TakeBack Coalition, A Project of the Tides Center 60 29th Street #230, San Francisco, CA 94110 415-206-9595
- Streaming CES: How We Did It
- Sony 3D visor
- Obama to hand Commerce Dept. authority over cybersecurity ID
- Hackers find new way to cheat on Wall Street
- Facebook to Live Stream US Congress Opening
- Drone flight with augmented reality
- Scientists say dolphins should be treated as 'non-human persons'
- A fat tummy shrivels your brain
- Tree-like giant is largest molecule ever made
- Synthetic proteins enable the growth of living cells
- A Flute Made on a 3D Printer, and the Possibilities to Come
- Nanoscoops' could spark new generation of electric automobile batteries
- The power of ‘convergence’
  
  In white paper, MIT scientists discuss potential for revolutionary advances in biomedicine and other fields.
- Not Just Birds and Fish but People Dropping Like Flies
- East Coast Fish Die-Offs Linked to Extreme Cold Snap
- Hubble zooms into Green Glob in Space
- Twitter’s Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should Be the Industry Standard
- Kepler Finds First Definitively Rocky Exoplanet
- Facebook's Iron Fist
- The Computer History Museum
- Galen Brandt as the Tiny Dancer
- The Human Interface Technology Lab
- Do to Learn - Education for children with special disabilities
- The Threshold Choir
January 4, 2011

New Year, New Science, and Strange Mysteries to Explore
- Is Mass Bird and Fish Die Off Connected to Government Testing?
- Skype Adds Video Calling to iPhones, iPad, iPod touch
- CES 2011: What to Expect
- Kinect Creators Making PC Controller (MSFT)
- Chinese Could Replace English as Dominant Internet Language
- 2011 preview: Enter the robot self
- Transcending the Human, DIY Style
- New year, new science
  
  Nature looks at key findings and events that could emerge from the research world in 2011.
- First Science Blog Review of The Science of Kissing!
- It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations
- 2010 review: The year in health and medicine
- New test under development could find single cancer cell in blood
- Bringing Embryonic Stem Cells to the Blind
- Electronic Pickpocketing
- Video: Politically Charged Sci-Fi Short Floats UFOs Over Israel
Dec. 28, 2010

Intentions and Predictions for 2011
- New Scientist Predictions for 2011
- Top Online Jobs for 2010 and Predictions for the Year Ahead
- IBM’s Top Five Predictions for 2015
- 2010: A Year of Pictures from NASA/JPL
- The ten most powerful Tweets of 2010
- Facebook, PayPal tycoon embraces sci-fi future
- Computers with emotions
- Structure deep within the brain (Amygdala) may contribute to a rich, varied social life
- 'Un-growth hormone' increases longevity
- Scientists find evidence for 'chronesthesia,' or mental time travel
- How to create a startup country
- If Modern Humans Are So Smart, Why Are Our Brains Shrinking?
- California Mine Aims To Challenge China’s Rare Earth Supremacy
- The Metal Marvel That Has Mended Brains for 50 Years, Lithium
Dec. 21, 2010

Superpowers, Paganism, and the Origins of Holiday Traditions
- The ‘Hobby’ Strikes Gold: Apple TV Sales Hit One Million
- Citizen Scientists Join Search For Earth-Like Planets
- AT&T Rings Up $2 Billion Mobile Upgrade
- Word Lens Translates Words Inside of Images. Yes Really.
- Google Earth for the body
- Free online library of images, videos, and animations of cells now available
- Google launches next phase of voice-recognition project
- The ten most powerful Tweets of 2010
- Robot arm improves performance of brain-controlled device
  
  Adding sensory feedback could help spinal cord injury patients operate computers, robots
- Cancer cells dupe the body's immune system
- Personalized products FOR you and BY you
- Your Source for Magic, Spells, Witchcraft, Spiritual Gifts & Ritual Supplies
- Angela Blessing Originals
- The Digital Nativity
  
  Hilarious Holiday Nativity Movie... Enjoy! Thanks Dr.Toy
Dec.14, 2010

Creating New Media and Your Digital Rights
- Assange issues plea from jail
- OpenLeaks aims to provide a more transparent alternative to WikiLeaks
  
  http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6324646,00.html
- Julian Assange's OK Cupid dating profile
- Making a virtual FAO Schwartz floor piano with the Xbox Kinect
- Christmas music via an iBand
- Video: Explosions Connected Across Sun’s Surface
- Telomerase reactivation reverses tissue degeneration in aged telomerase-deficient mice
- Key protein discovered that allows nerve cells to repair themselves
- Top KurzweilAI of the Week Stories Top tweets of 2010, Problem-solving ants inspire next generation of algorithms,Stretchable Silicon Could Make Sports Apparel Smarter, Pro-WikiLeaks cyber army gains strength; thousands join DDoS attacks,
- Made in IBM Labs: Breakthrough Chip Technology Lights the Path to Exascale Computing
- The Cancun Climate Summit Is Over. Did They Agree on Anything?
- Dying Moon May Have Spawned Saturn’s Rings
- Father of Neutron Bomb, “The Most Moral Weapon,” Dies
- Kiehsa - Little Grandmothers Urgent Advice - to use QUARTZ Crystals NOW
- Tron Legacy Review
- Kirk Nugent rap for Evolutionary Agents and Light Workers: A reminder of our purpose here on Earth. Much love.
- See the Future with a Search
- World's fastest camera takes a new look at biosensing
- Navy’s New Railgun Shoots at Mach 7, Can Hit Targets 100 Miles Away
- Pat Riley's IP Society
- The Digital Media Factory
Dec. 07, 2010

Poetic Futures and Lingerie Landscapes
- WW II pilot recalls meeting leader of Pearl Harbor attack
- Silicon Valley billionaire backs futuristic philanthropy
- How Online Reading Habits Have Changed Over 2010
- Chrome OS Has Landed: 6 Key Features of Google's New Operating System
- Google enters e-book market, with a few hiccups
- Google exec: Chrome OS and Android represent two visions of computing
- Tracing the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving
- See the Future with a Search
- How to achieve ‘biological immortality’ naturally
- for the Lingerie Ladies
  
  This the Collaborative art piece that Sun, Abbie, JJ Webb, and several others collaborated..
- Blue's Cruzio Cafe of Animated Poetry
- Abbie Rabinowitz ~ Artist
  
  Expressive Pleinair Landscapes, Watercolors, Oils and Sensual Figurative Art
Nov. 30, 2010

Dr. Future's First Wild Ride Around the Web!
- German Pirate Party members strip off for Berlin airport scanner protest
- Are Security Scanners Safe?
- WikiLeaks Reveals Everybody’s Christmas List: The World Wants Drones
- WikiLeaks Shows U.S. Chases Foreign Leaders’ DNA
- WikiLeaks Reveals Iran’s Secret, Worldwide Arms Hunt
- Is "Eternal Sunshine" on the horizon?
- Ultrasound Gets More Portable
  
  A new handheld ultrasound device could be the first that can connect directly to cell-phone and Wi-Fi networks.
- Organs Made from Scratch
  
  "Building blocks" containing gels turn cells into different types of tissue.
- War Machines: Recruiting Robots for Combat
- Microsoft develops shape-shifting touchscreen
- In Cybertherapy, Avatars Assist With Healing
- Amazon goes Hollywood with new online movie studio
- A Space For DIY People To Do Their Business (Link#1)
  
  These jobs will NEVER be outsourced... they are in the CLOUD! Cyber people are reinventing reality.
- A Space For DIY People To Do Their Business (Link #2)
  
  Hackerspaces are community-operated physical places, where people can meet and work on their projects.
- A Space For DIY People To Do Their Business (Link #3)
  
  Hacker Dojo is a community center in Mountain View which is about 1/3rd coworking space, 1/3rd events venue, and 1/3rd a big social living room.
- Sir, There's a Camera in Your Head
  
  Nope, this is not about Dr.Future... but maybe some day!
- Artists On Art
  
  Dr & Mrs Future have been interviewed by Agent Nada, the host of Artists On Art. This is a repository of treasures of the emerging digital culture of our time. Copy Forward, and look for us in a hundred and a thousand years!
Nov. 23, 2010

TSA Backlash, Vitamins, Spooks, Avatars, Fashion & other random stuff
- Apple iOS 4.2 Arrives for iPhone/iPad, Makes Find My iPhone Free
- Protect Your Data During U.S. Border Searches
- New microscope reveals ultrastructure of cells
  
  HZB researchers can take images of small cellular components in their natural environment -- while the cell remains intact
- With Kinect Controller, Hackers Take Liberties
- NASA Launches Nanosatellite to Study Life in Space
  
  The tiny propellant-free satellite will conduct astrobiology research.
- FCC Updating 911 for the Texting Generation, SRSLY
- TSA Backscatter X-ray Backlash
  
  Schneier on Security A blog covering security and security technology.
- Headphones Built Into Your Hoodie and Other Tech Clothing Wonders
  
  A phone built into the sleeve of a dress. Gloves that enable you to swipe a touchscreen on the ski slope. Solar-powered backpacks. Here are nine examples of apparel that blurs the line between clothing and tech gear.
- Is this proof that spooky auras are real?
- Health Tips | Cardio risks, Vitamin D, alcohol, salt, and yogurt
- Virtual reality helps stroke patients regain movement
- Storytelling 2.0: Open your books to augmented reality
- Now I See You
  
  Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have built a new type of prosthetic retina that enabled blind mice to see nearly normal images. It could someday restore detailed sight to the millions of people who’ve lost their vision to retinal disease.
- Rare Earth Elements in US Not So Rare
- Amazon goes Hollywood with new online movie studio
- TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS , STOCKHOLM 2011
- Peter Chung Takes ‘the Big Risk’ With CGI-AnimatedFirebreather
- Intel commissions futuristic stories for internal planning, gives away ebooks and podcasts
Nov. 16, 2010

Links for the Inventions & Social Inventors Show.
- Facebook Upgrades E-Mail to ‘Modern Messaging System’
- How Wii and Kinect Hack Into Your Emotions
- The 50 Best Inventions of 2010
- Top 10 Failed Futuristic Predictions
- A better way to fix stuff
- The Latest Cyberglasses
- Chip-in-a-pill may be approved in 2012
- Supercomputers 'will fit in a sugar cube',
- Robot Actress Takes to the Stage
- New low-cost, rapid method for reading genomes uses ‘recognition tunneling’
- Over 35 Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute to YouTube
- When The Speed Of Light Is Too Slow: Trading at the Edge
- Home security robots hit the market
- Web Browser pioneer creates new way to surf:
- Motus lets users 'film' within any 3D environment
- With a 50 Friends Limit, Path Is the Opposite of Twitter
- The Tech Industry Is a Virus
- The Web 2.0 Summit
  
  The Web 2.0 Summit brings together leaders of the Internet Economy to debate and determine business strategy. The conference is being held November 15-17 in San Francisco. You can watch the Web 2.0 Summit live via streaming and archives.
- Animation-Where Cinema and Biology Meet
Nov. 9, 2010 links. Join in LIVE 2pm-4pm KSCO 1080

Guest this week: Historian of the Future, Charles Ostmann On the 11:11 experiment this week www.newrealitytransmission.com Call in at (831)479-1080 if you have a comment to share.
- Nanogenerator Powers Up
  
  A device containing piezoelectric nanowires can now scavenge enough energy to power small electronic devices.
- Antibodies follow and act to kill viruses inside the cell
- Quantum 'weirdness' used by plants, animals
- Color Comes to E Ink Screens
- Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang'
- Quantum Computing Reaches for True Power
- Net Pioneers: Open Internet Should Be Separate
- Final nail in coffin for Net neutrality?
- A robot lifeguard patrols Malibu
- Your smartphone will run your life
- Comet Hartley 2 Gets Visit from Deep Impact Spacecraft
Nov. 2, 2010 Show Links

Dr Future Show on KSCO AM 1080. Live Call in to discuss 479-1080
- Pope Says Science Can Unite Humans With God
  
  Sent in by our Evolutionary Agent Kelly from IONS
- World’s Most Precise Clocks Could Reveal Universe Is a Hologram
- Extreme Fear Stops Time
  
  Getting a Grip on the Brain's Alarm System
- Dying soldier admits seeing ET from Roswell UFO crash
  
  Ex-Soldier Paul Epley wants to get a few things off his conscience.
- Blekko. A New Search Engine you can TRUST
  
  a search engine opens to the public on Monday, search results from only useful, trustworthy sites.
- Without driver or map, vans go from Italy to China
- LARK Introduces Revolutionary Silent Waking System at TechCrunch Disrupt
  
  A Phone, a wristband, a PING, and sleeping couples sleep better.
- Wireless’ humans could form backbone of new mobile networksWireless’ humans could form backbone of new mobile networks
- child-mother interactions to design robots with social skills
  
  UM researchers are studying child-mother interactions to design robots with social skills
- Replenish Sells You Empty Cleaning-Spray Bottle: Just Add Water
- How 3-D Printing Is Transforming the Toy Industry
- How to erase a memory
- NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Power World's Fastest Supercomputer
  
  Half the Size, Lower Power and 50% Faster Than World's Top Supercomputer
Sept 21 2010 Show Links

Hi Evolutionary Agents! Here are my favorite stories for the show. Call in at 831-479-1080 to talk with us LIVE on KSCO 1080 AM, Tuesdays 2PM-4PM in Santa Cruz, CA.
- 3D Portraits made from Chicken Wire
- Found: genes that make kids smart
- Mini device can allow cell phones to project images on a wall
- Japan takes another step in replacing humans with robots
- Emotional robot pets
- Better Bugs to Make Plastics
  
  OPX Biotechnologies uses genetic engineering to speed the development of organisms that make chemicals and fuel.
- Rattner Describes the Future of Context-Aware Computing
  
  SAN FRANCISCO 09.15.2010—In his keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum , Intel vice president and chief technology officer Justin Rattner focused on "context-aware computing," in which devices anticipate your needs and desires and help fulfill
- Is Facebook Planning a Phone? Who Knows? Should It? No
- Gigantic Spider Webs Made of Silk Tougher Than Kevlar
- Apple’s new iAd platform could boost stock
Sept. 14 Links discussed on DrFutureShow on KSCO AM Radio 1080 in Santa Cruz.

Call in on 831-479-1080 to talk with us LIVE, Tuesday 2PM-4PM.
- A Sock, A Clown’s Story and Other Tales of Health and Care
- hummingbirds-have-sex-in-midair
- Geocentrism? Seriously? | Bad Astronomy
- Mommy’s makeup and the downfall of the samurai - Holy Kaw!
- Boing Boing
- EEG Headsets for ALL
- Electronic Skin Feels Your Touch
- Homeland Security to test iris scanners
- How will the digital capture of place free us from our past? | Spatial Sustain
  
  marching inevitably toward an immersive model. Geospatial technologies
- 6 Reasons Your Library Should Host a TEDxLive Viewing Party for TEDWomen | Librarian by Day
- Platforms of the Future. Information is King. - Force.com Blog
- InstaTweets
- Sex Quiz: Test your knowledge of “the Nasty” - Holy Kaw!
- Bacteria and climate change: Invisible carbon pumps
- Diet and gender determination: Is tofu just for girls? - Holy Kaw!
- How Brazil is Blazing a Trail for Electronic Democracy
  
  Ideas to Computerize Democracy
- ProWebSurfer-Replace Ads with Your Stuff!
  
  Free toolbar replaces advertisements with images of your choice.
Web Links to Dr. Future
- Dr. Future Show on AwakeMedia.com
  
  The complete audio archives of the Dr. Future Show, hosted by Allan Lundell, with Awake Media's 3 Evolutionary Agents Sun Lundell, Nada Miljkovic, & Lakshmi Narayan,. Recorded at the historic KSCO oceanfront radio station in Santa Cruz, California..
- Interview with Allan Lundell on Artists On Art, KZSC
  
  A half hour radio show from UCSC radio station KZSC where host Toronada interviews Allan about his lifetime works pioneering cinema verite at the dawn of digital media. Early drug research studies, Journalist in Silicon Valley, Digibarn Computer Museum.
- The Squarespace Insider
  
  A blog straight from the mouths -- err, keyboards -- of Squarespacers.

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