Did You Know: Social Media Revolution 2011 | Chris Rawlinson: Here’s a new version of “Shift Happens”…. Don’t say that 3 times fast in public.!:-( This version is more about social media… Go tweet about that. ‘via Blog this’
Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research | Video on TED.com: ‘via Blog this’ This is an interesting approach to scientific research and invention… Related to cancer genes. They are applying Open-source concepts with crowd sourcing to get the research out quickly in a collaborative environment. Not that the original research was gov and/or foundation funded.
Halloween 2011. Wanna talk about something really, really scary!:-) No, it’s not Freddie. Or Fannie for that matter. Today, it seems, we have hit 7 billion population on the plant. Of the 150+ people born per minute, some 98% are borne in developing countries. This creates challenges for the already poor countries. At least 50 of them are born in India per minute. The world populations odometer rolls over about today: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/world-population-not-only-grows-but-grows-old/2011/10/25/gIQAdt17VM_story.html Problem of a graying…
Energy ‘wedges’ – MIT News Office Here’s a great visual. Wedges. Click on the symbol to see what happens if we get serious about solar, wind… and EE. Of course doing nothing is not a very good option.
MIT 5-part series on Energy scaling up (or scaling down in terms of energy efficiency). http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/energy-scale-part1-1024.html #1 http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/energy-scale-part5-1028.html # 5 Read part 1: “What can make a dent?“ Read part 2: “Where the wind blows“ Read part 3: “Shining brightly“ Read part 4: “Harnessing the Earth, the atom and the leaf“ Read part 5: ‘Conserve, conserve, conserve’ A megawatt saved is better than a megawatt made, and there are plenty of ways to save energy…
Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real – Yahoo! News: “Still, Muller said it makes sense to reduce the carbon dioxide created by fossil fuels.” So the long-term denier Muller has finally decided that there really is global worming. Duh. At least as important is that the funding is by Koch Foundation. It looks like they will stand behind the findings and push on for more research as to the cause of global…
