Manning, NSA, Snowden, Lady in Luck last week, BMW i3, food printing, False Memories, and Dr. Charles Buchanan with a Higgs Boson update and other stories from the world of Physics.

Listen Now to Dr. Future Show 7.30.13

Much going on regarding the evolution of our security state this month, with Manning’s sentencing, the House voting for NSA surveillance and retired CIA operative Robert Seldon Lady ‘disappearing.’

Meanwhile, we have physicist Charles Buchanan in the studio, updating us on the Higgs Boson, the Van Allen Radiation Belts particle accelerator, false memories, and Slinky physics! 

Dr. Future News - Alien Space Probes, Autonomous Volvo, License Plate trackers, Human motion power, Gold Rush era discards the new gold, Dolphins use Names

Listen Now to Dr. Future News 7.23.13

A good news week, with some great info and tales that will amuse and amaze you.  I particularly like the garbage to gold story of how the tailings of 19th century California and Nevada mines may contain valuable rare earth elements. And of course, the story on how we can harvest energy from our body movements..Simply fascinating, even though we only actually move about 7% of our time!

Enjoy!

Dr. Bruce Damer - Update on Origin of Life and Asteroid Space Dust

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This week we get an update from our local scientist Bruce Damer on his research in the Origin of Life and his latest proposal to NASA on a means for harnessing the energy of asteroids for fueling further space exploration.

Dr. Future News - China Goes Solar, Cancer's Deep Evolutionary Roots, Sonic Levitation, AI IQ, Hyperloop - Elon Musk's secret new project, DIY Drone Kit, Open Source GMO, wtf?

Listen now to Dr. Future News 7.16. 13

Quite an interesting potpurri of topics today intermixed with some deep thought, such as the origins of cancer cells  and open souce genetically modified organisms..what does this  mean?.. Enjoy!

Future News - Curiousity and Snowdon on the Move, Glass catches arrest on Jersey Shore, Guest Kelly Durkin on the Fijian Experience

Listen to Dr. Future Show 7.09.13 Kelly Durkin

This week, NASA’s Martian Curiousity rover is on the move, Glass catches it’s first arrest, and we catch up with Kelly Durkin, on her quest to build an eco resort in a very remote area of the planet, the island of Koro in Fiji.  She shares with us her experiences and insights into the local people, who were catapulted very quickly into the 21st century, especially lately with the recent advent of smart phones in just the last few years.  What could our sophisticated minds learn from these recent stone age people of our species?  Kelly clues us in..

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