Quoted: Auto-Blogging - Many of us use Blue Dot as an easier way to blog about topics we care about. We've created an experimental feature that ...
[tags: BlueDot]
17 March 2007
Test Dot from Blue Dot
My Dots for Friday, March 16, 2007
Quoted: Tiny fibers will save lives by stopping bleeding and aiding recovery from brain injury
[tags: technology, nanotech, health]
Quoted: Artificially structured metamaterials could transform telecommunications, data storage, and even solar energy
[tags: technology, nanotech, metamaterials]
Quoted: using computers to automate some diagnostics could make medicine more personal.
[tags: technology, health, monitor, medicine]
Quoted: A new catalyst that can split carbon dioxide gas could allow us to use carbon from the atmosphere as a fuel source in a similar ...
[tags: EnergyTechnologies, environment, fuel]
Google has added new features to Picasa Web Albums, its online photo storage service, and increased the storage for free accounts to 1 gigabyte (up from 250 megabytes). New features include easy embed codes for sharing your photos through email, instant messages and websites and being able to search for public photos.
[tags: google, picasa, photography, storage]
The NicStic is a cigarette-size plastic tube with a rechargeable heating coil that vaporizes tobacco instead of burning it.
[tags: health, smoking, environment]
The Methuselah Mouse Prize (MPrize), is the premiere effort of the Methuselah Foundation and is being offered to the scientific research team who develops the longest living Mus musculus, the breed of mouse most commonly used in scientific research. Developing interventions which work in mice is a critical precursor to the development of human anti-aging techniques, for once it is demonstrated that aging in mice can be effectively delayed or reversed, popular attitudes towards aging as 'inevitable' will no longer be possible. When aging in mice is shown to be 'treatable' the funding necessary for a full-line assault on the aging process will be made available. This is the true power of the Methuselah Mouse Prize, to demonstrate a proof of principle, and give hope to the world that decline in function and age-related disease are no longer guarantees, for us, or for future generations, if we work together now.
Quoted: Nick Bostrom is a philosopher and a leading transhumanist thinker and spokesperson. He is director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University. His research aims to illuminate big picture questions for humanity using rigorous analysis and science.
[tags: future, predictions, philosophy]
Killing fungi softly, with ozone
The Livermore, Calif.-based company has developed systems that kill fungi and other microorganisms on vegetables, fruit and in bottled drinks without altering appearance or taste. Novazone's principal agent: ozone, the three-atom molecule of pure oxygen.
[tags: health]
Quality of life
Scientists are developing an artificial vein for use in patients with circulation problems.
[tags: health]
On March 15, 44 B.C. Julius Caesar was murdered by a posse of Roman senators. Today, on the anniversary of the historic murder, we imagine the sort of after-party the killers might have thrown.
LISTEN !
Priority Lithium Ion R&D with Automakers and DOE Needed to Support Mass Produced Plug-In Hybrids Should Be Augmented by New Standardized Modules Enabling Today's Hybrids to Become Plug-Ins with a Significant and Earlier Improvement in Mileage Efficiency
[tags: battery, energy, batteries, automotive]
A123Systems’s high power battery technology is based on highly active nanoscale materials that are inexpensive, nontoxic, and extremely stable in electrochemical systems. A123Systems’ high power chemistry is based on proprietary compositions with much higher charge and discharge rates.
[tags: nanotech, batteries, battery, energy, storage, automotive]
Quoted: Enter the nanotechnological battery, the new lightweight and powerful engine of high-tech dreams, making everything possible from hybrid vehicles capable of getting 150 miles per gallon to battery-powered fabrics that will let soldiers plug...
Quoted: Removing CO2 from our oceans and atmosphere by healing the seas, growing new climate forests, and erasing carbon footprints.
[tags: environment, climate, future]
Crazy-sounding ideas for saving the planet are getting a serious look from top scientists, a sign of their fears about global warming and the desire for an insurance policy in case things get worse.
[tags: climate, technology, environment, future]
If it weren't for Joost - the new television site started by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis - I don't think Viacom (via) would be so bold.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
