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The 100-Year March of Technology in 1 Graph
- In 1900, <10% of families owned a stove or had access to electricity
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Why Collaborative Storytelling Is The Future Of Marketing
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Reimagining business with a social mindset – Deloitte Tech Trends 2012
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Mazda Envisions Creating Their Future Car Today
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The Missing 20th Century: How Copyright Protection Makes Books Vanish
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Railroad Sensors Predict Derailments Wirelessly « Wireless Sensor Networks Blog
Union Pacific, the nation’s largest railroad company, says
When we think of geeks, we usually think of Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates etc. But beyond the recent present there is a name that we now but not always remember - Nikola Tesla. Sometimes considered the father of the electrical age, Tesla had pioneered inventions ahead of most people’s imaginations. For example: Marconi the winner of the noble prize for physics for creating the radio, based his work on Tesla’s research. I believe the infographic, provided via the title link, speaks to his contribution to science and how we should reconsider him as the one of the top 5 innovators in history.
Singapore Supertrees: An Eco Steel Approach
A quick glance at the 18 arboreal structures would remind you of a sci-fi film; a civilization in the sky connected via a bridge that looks up into the stratosphere; a visual image of the next frontier Skytopia. These 18 gargantuan trunks of steel are very real and have been built in the most eco-friendly country on the planet, Singapore.
Supported by a state of the art water management system, designed to recycle rain water, and solar panels, designed to conserve energy, these 18 towers are seamlessly connected by a 420 foot long bridge to allow tourists to visit adjoining tree towers. Standing at 25 - 50 meters each, the towers put together will serve as a tourist attraction and the entire skyway is scheduled to open to the general public on June 29th of this year.
The Next Generation Of Scientists
The science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students of today are tomorrow’s scientists. They’re the future disease curers, bridge builders, space explorers, and in many STEM fields, they’re nearly half women.
In the past decade, the number of degrees that women earned at all levels has steadily increased, which will help close the STEM gap in US’s workforce. Women still have fields where they make up a small minority, but supporting women in these fields is one way to insure a steady pipeline of bright scientists to lead the future of American competitiveness and innovation.
MIT & Khan Academy Launch K-12 Video Channel to Combat Science & Engineering Shortfall
Less than 5% of all degrees awarded in the US are in engineering. Compare that with 21% in Asia and 14% in Europe. The US has been been trying to rise from its image as a service based economy, raising questions about the current predicament during congressional forums and leadership parlances.
Realizing Khan Academy’s milestones in the field of education could be a great way to motivate youth to join these fields, MIT has collaborated with them to get their current students to create 5 - 10 minute videos on anything, from flying robots to basic chemistry, based on feedback from their professors, K-12 students and fellow users. With 75 videos already created and hundreds more in the pipeline, MIT professors hope this will revolutionize online college education as well.
When science enters the kitchen
The modernist kitchens of Grant Achatz are known for using experimental equipment to produce unusual cuisine, thanks to an unusual partnership with PolyScience, a lab equipment. To learn more about his innovative restaurant Alinea, please visit alinea-restaurant.com.
Confronting the Climate Change Challenge | Michael Mann
Michael Mann was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the team of scientists that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. Mann discusses his work with the panel, his current outlook on the future of the planet, and his new book, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars.
Over the next 12 years, thousands of antennas will be built and installed across a 5,000-kilometer stretch of the southern hemisphere. Satellite dishes, tripod-like dipole antennas, and tiled circular stations will dot arid savannas and comprise the world’s biggest, most accurate radio telescope ever constructed: the Square Kilometer Array.
The ambitious project, which brings 67 scientific teams from 20 countries together, is the next big thing in global scientific collaboration. (To clarify, the antennas cover continent-wide distances, but it’s the signal-collecting area that is one square kilometer, the equivalent of a single dish with a square kilometer of surface area.) Like CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the SKA is a multi-year, multi-billion dollar enterprise aimed at answering some of the most fundamental questions about deep time and the very nature of the universe. According to Ronald Luijten, a senior manager at IBM’s Zurich Research Lab, “SKA is very similar to the CERN project in terms of the complexity of project itself, the size of the scientific community, and the global nature of the operation.”
Despite these structural and cultural similarities, the SKA represents a new step in terms of data management and the complexities of project coordination. The instrument will generate an exabyte of data every day – that would be 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes – more than twice the information sent around the internet on a daily basis and 100 times more information than the LHC produces.
Brain Wiring a No-Brainer?
The brain appears to be wired more like the checkerboard streets of New York City than the curvy lanes of Columbia, Md., suggests a new brain imaging study. The most detailed images, to date, reveal a pervasive 3D grid structure with no diagonals, say scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Full Story: Science Daily
The Importance of Science
Science teacher and film-maker Alom Shaha sets out to uncover a genuinely satisfying answer to his students’ most common question: Why is science important?
(via climateadaptation)
