Photo of me demonstrating an unuual thermoelectric generator
with NY Times Correspondent Matthew Wald
Futurist Thomas Frey: On Wednesday I was invited to speak on a panel at the 2012 National Electricity Forum, an event sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, in Washington DC.
Continue reading… “Dismantling of our Power Industry Infrastructure”
Skin cancer drug reverses Alzheimer’s in mice, is there hope for humans?
A laboratory study indicates that a drug commonly used to fight skin cancer could start to reverse Alzheimer’s disease in a matter of hours. Researchers have described the discovery as an “unprecedented finding” that holds out “the potential promise of a therapy for Alzheimer’s”.
Rapunzel number
The “Rapunzel Number” may have helped British scientists to crack a problem that has perplexed humanity since Leonardo da Vinci pondered it 500 years ago.
Continue reading… “Rapunzel number helps scientists devise ‘Ponytail Shape Equation’”
A prediction of the future supercontinent, Amasia.
The Earth has been covered by supercontinents, giant combinations of continents, many times in its past, and it will be again one day in the distant future. The next predicted supercontinent, dubbed Amasia, may form when the Americas and Asia both drift northward to merge, closing off the Arctic Ocean, researchers suggest. (video)
Continue reading… “Amasia – the next supercontinent”
Everybody lies — even doctors.
Eleven percent of doctors say that they have told a patient or a child’s guardian something that was not true in the past year, and about 20 percent say they have not fully disclosed a mistake to a patient because they were afraid of being sued, according to a new study.
Continue reading… “Telling white lies common practice among doctors: study”
Depreciation of all smartphones is not equal. iPhones can be sold for 53% of their original price 18 months after purchase, while Androids can only be sold for 42% and BlackBerries for 41% on average according to a study by Y Combinator second-hand price guide startup Priceonomics.
Continue reading… “iPhone resale value 63%, Android 46% after one year: study”
Vitruvian Man
At the dawn of the Roman imperial age, the first century B.C., the architect and thinker Vitruvius proposed that the human body could fit inside a circle, symbolic of the divine, and a square, associated with the earthly and secular — an idea that later became known as the theory of the microcosm, and came to power European religious, scientific, and artistic ideologies for centuries.
Continue reading… “How Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man came to be”
Currently cable companies must deliver broadcast channels in a way that enables tuners to display those channels without any extra hardware.
Cable companies are suffering from flat and declining cable TV subscription numbers. So now cable companies are lobbying the FCC to force every cable subscriber to rent cable boxes or cable cards even if they don’t want or need them now.
Continue reading… “Cable companies lobby FCC to increase your bill and limit competition”
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Canadian inventor Rejean Neron’s Safety Sphere concept has to be the most, well, all-encompassing airbag for motorcyclists. Described as an “inflatable crash garment for non-enclosed vehicle riders”, Safety Sphere isn’t so much built into the rider’s suit as it is the rider’s suit. In the event of an accident, the intended results are nothing if not dramatic, as the CG video promo ably illustrates. (Pics)
Continue reading… “Safety Sphere – inflatable crash suit for motorcyclists”
The study shows a mountain of accumulated evidence the damage physical punishment can have on a child.
Long-term developmental damage as well as a lower IQ can be a result of spanking children according to a new Canadian analysis that seeks to shift the ethical debate over corporal punishment into the medical sphere.
Continue reading… “Study: Spanking kids can cause long-term harm”
NASA hopes to be able to fly its astronauts on commercial carriers by about 2017.
Program managers from NASA said they are looking for at least two U.S. firms to design and build space taxis to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
Continue reading… “NASA issues call for new space taxis to fly to International Space Station”
Stricter security measures n U.S. airports is making air travel less safe.
Ever stricter security measures in place in U.S. airports is making air travel less safe and airports more vulnerable, according to University of Illinois mathematics professor Sheldon H. Jacobson. The reason is too many resources are spent screening passengers who pose little risk, which steals time and money away from identifying real threats.
Continue reading… “Too much passenger screening is making airports less secure”
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