Dr. Jin Huiqing says you can treat bad driving like a disease you can diagnose before the driver even gets near a car.
Someone is killed in traffic every five minutes in China and one entrepreneurial doctor has an unusual approach for making roads safer. He says to treat bad driving like a disease you can diagnose before the driver even getting near a car.
Continue reading… “Bad driving a disease and can be cured Chinese doctor says”
Harvesting the wind in water.
The French government of Nicolas Sarkozy has launched a €10 billion ($14.26 billion) tender to build about 1,200 wind turbines in 5 different offshore wind farms. The goal is to diversify France’s energy generation (they are very reliant on nuclear, which accounts for about 80% of their electricity generation) with renewable sources and to have 23% of France’s energy come from renewable sources by 2020. The wind farms will be located off France’s coast on the North and West and should produce about 3.5% of the country’s electricity according to government authorities. The farms should come online between 2015-2020…
Florida holds the top four on the list with the most dangerous places to walk in America.
The 2011 edition of the “Dangerous by Design” report has just been released by Transportation for America, which calculated the Pedestrian Danger Index (PDI) in metro areas around the country. Cities where people walk more have more pedestrian deaths, so the index plots the number of pedestrians who die against the number of people who walk.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: On Sunday I gave the closing keynote at the World Future Society’s “WorldFuture 2011″ event in Vancouver, BC. It was an energized crowd of inspired thinkers from around the globe, and I felt quite honored to be part of this event.
Continue reading… “Introducing: Eight Grand Challenges for humanity”
Graphene sheets
Graphite and water, a combination of two ordinary materials, could produce energy storage systems that perform on par with lithium ion batteries, but recharge in a matter of seconds and have an almost indefinite lifespan.
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QR Codes are an inventive way to memorialize a loved one.
When Yoav Medan’s mother Judith passed away in June, the Israel-based medical technology executive couldn’t decide what he wanted to write on her tombstone. After deliberating with his family, Medan decided to turn to technology for the answer and attach a QR code to the grave in Haifa, Israel…
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Thomas Frey, futurist and executive director at the DaVinci Institute.
Thomas Frey, a futurist and executive director at the DaVinci Institute, has been drawing inspiration from the success of large-scale incentive-based prize competitions as he announced a series of eight massively difficult competitions during his keynote July 10th at the World Future Society’s “WorldFuture 2011″ event in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Has the Search Engine altered our way of thinking and remembering?
If you can Google it, why bother remembering? Being able to access facts with just a few keystroke definitely improved our lives, but it has actually changed the way our memories work.
A study of 46 college students found lower rates of recall on newly-learned facts when students thought those facts were saved on a computer for later recovery.
If you think a fact is conveniently available online, then, you may be less apt to learn it…
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Employers are looking for people who can invent, adapt and reinvent their jobs every day, in a market that changes faster than ever.
The rise in the unemployment rate last month to 9.2 percent has Democrats and Republicans reliably falling back on their respective cure-alls. It is evidence for liberals that we need more stimulus and for conservatives that we need more tax cuts to increase demand. I am sure there is truth in both, but I do not believe they are the whole story. I think something else, something new — something that will require our kids not so much to find their next job as to invent their next job — is also influencing today’s job market more than people realize.
Continue reading… “‘The start-up of you’ – Reinventing yourself in the ever changing job market”
The Rainbow Toad
After months of scouring remote forests in Borneo, researchers spotted three rainbow toads up a tree, snapping the first-ever photographs of this elusive amphibian species that hadn’t been seen for 87 years. Last seen in 1924, the Bornean rainbow toad (Ansonia latidisca) had been listed as one of the world’s top 10 most wanted lost frogs…
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Utilizing landfills for more than land mass.
You wouldn’t think that arts and crafts required so much energy, but creating pottery and glass sculptures takes up a lot of energy. That’s why some green minded folks in North Carolina have devised a way to utilize gas from a landfill in their craft making endeavors…
Foods high in sugar and fat have a similar effect on the brain as alcohol and other drugs of abuse.
Do you think you’re addicted to chocolate? It’s unlikely you cut yourself off from your friends because you’re too embarrassed to scarf down Hershey bar after Hershey bar in front of them.
Continue reading… “Addiction is the same whether it’s drugs or food: Study”