One of my favorite vidoes: Top 10 Freaking Amazing Explosions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRRGaxx8Zf4

What caused the big bang? I nice way of saying we don't know ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uabNtlLfYyU

Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y

RoboKind R50

At the beginning of this decade I predicted that we would see intelligent robots by the end of the decade.

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/bWhyExDKe4Q

David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion"

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/wjW-v0IPT_M

Re: Fusion

This is a stark contrast to all the people who condemned cold fusion as lunacy. 

I remain skeptical.  If it were real, I think that the scientific community would be embracing it right now.  This could be a ruse to dupe investors, as this kind of thing has been done before in all sorts of "free energy" schemes.

Turning a proton into a neutron is an amazingly difficult thing to do. 

If it were true, our energy problems would be solved forever.  There would be no limit to what the human race could accomplish.  

On Oct 4, 2013, at 11:56 AM, "Trout, Larry R wrote:

http://fcnp.com/2013/09/17/the-peak-oil-crisis-update-on-cold-fusion/

 

The Evolution Of Flight: The Microraptor Could Glide Over Short Distances Even Without Feathers

http://www.ibtimes.com/evolution-flight-microraptor-could-glide-over-short-distances-even-without-feathers-1407578

UCSF study shows gaming makes you cognitively younger (video)

http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/05/ucsf-video-game-study/

Carol Dweck, Stanford University Professor, On Why Telling Your Children They're Smart Is Actually Bad For Them (VIDEO)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/02/carol-dweck-mindset_n_3696599.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

Fat-boosting gene mystery 'solved'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23312712

Researchers Develop MRI Scan To Detect Cancer Using Sugar

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/262999.php

Climate Change in 12 Minutes - The Skeptic's Case

Climate Change in 12 Minutes - The Skeptic's Case  (This is good.)

Re: Quantum Computing

In the very early days of radio some inventors weren't quite sure how their invention worked;   They just happened to hit on the right idea through trial and error.

 

Until somebody can explain to me how a qbit works, I am extremely skeptical.  They may be able to come up with nifty devices on a scale smaller than a calculator, but it might be decades before somebody figures out how to make this useful.

 

This reminds me of a really old joke where a company invents a computer that is a billion times faster but some idiot asks if it will run Windows.

 

Best wishes,

John Coffey 

On Jun 19, 2013, at 8:46 AM, "larry.r.trout> wrote:

http://www.nature.com/news/computing-the-quantum-company-1.13212

 

'Mind control' tech lets you control robots just by thinking about it | SciTech | GMA News Online

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/312577/scitech/technology/mind-control-tech-lets-you-control-robots-just-by-thinking-about-it

Colleagues: Tornado chasers were researchers

I used to see this guy on the Storm Chasers TV show.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/03/us/storm-chasers-killed/index.html

Giant Asteroid flies by the Earth

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/05/31/giant-asteroid-to-sail-past-earth-today-watch-it-live/

 

 

Fwd: Fertilizer effect

'Study sees climate upside in greening arid regions

 

Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has a "fertilization effect" on plants in arid regions that has contributed to the flourishing of foliage there, Australian researchers report.'

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/31/study-climate-change/2377179/

 

weather.com. Climate Scientists Struggle to Explain Warming Slowdown

http://www.weather.com/news/science/environment/climate-scientists-warming-slowdown-20130416

Fwd: Algae

From: larry.r.trout

'Whiz kid grows algae under her bed, wins science fair

 

Sara Volz, 17, from Colorado Springs, Colo., joined the quest for practical alternatives to petroleum-based fuels in the seventh grade. Now a high school senior, she may have found an answer in the oily pond scum growing under her bed.

 

"I was trying to use guided evolution, so artificial selection, to isolate populations of algae cells with abnormally high oil content," she told NBC News.

 

The result is a population of algae that produces so much oil, so efficiently, that it bagged the grand prize Tuesday night in the Intel Science Talent Search, an elite science fair. The prize comes with a $100,000 scholarship.

 

Algae biofuel has long fascinated the green energy community as a promising alternative to other biofuels, such as corn-based ethanol, that take a bite out of the world's food budget. But a problem has been to get the plants to produce oil at scale cheaply enough to compete with petroleum-based fuel.

 

Other researchers have approached the problem by tweaking the algae genome or selecting the prime environmental conditions for algae growth. Volz's approach, she said, is different and lower cost. It relies on an herbicide that kills algae cells with low levels of an enzyme crucial to making oil.

 

"The idea is, if you introduce this chemical, you kill everything with really low oil production," she explained. "What you are left with is a population of cells with very high oil production."'

 

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/whiz-kid-grows-algae-under-her-bed-wins-science-fair-1C8835461

 

NASA Discovers New Radiation Belt Around Earth

http://www.space.com/20004-earth-radiation-belt-discovery.html

Meteor Fragments Are Said to Rain Down on Siberia

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/world/europe/meteorite-fragments-are-said-to-rain-down-on-siberia.html?_r=0

New Plastic Light Bulbs Could Be Flicker-Free Replacements for Compact Fluorescents: Less Heat, Closer to Daylight

http://www.latinospost.com/articles/7734/20121204/new-plastic-light-bulbs-flicker-free-replacements.htm

Lake life survives in total isolation for 3000 years - New Scientist - New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/mobile/article/dn22535-lake-life-survives-in-total-isolation-for-3000-years.html

Farthest Known Galaxy in the Universe Discovered

http://www.space.com/18502-farthest-galaxy-discovery-hubble-photos.html

 

Relax, girl: Boyfriend's 'love hormone' wards off your rivals

 

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/11/14/relax-girl-boyfriend-love-hormone-wards-off-your-rivals/

Early humans used stone spear points 500,000 years ago

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hISS_RrQOpDbJ9sk84ActLvv-6ZA?docId=CNG.9484301c0f281a31e8383bf96341f10b.471

Misconceptions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCzXZfNIu3A&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYzfKiIWN4g&feature=relmfu

I was saying this 30 years ago .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5UT04p5f7U&feature=relmfu

1,000,000,000,000 Frames/Second Photography - Ramesh Raskar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoHeWgLvlXI&feature=related

Climate in the United States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Climatemapusa2.PNG

Fusion

'The National Ignition Facility in Livermore, California, has been called a modern-day moon-shot, a project of "revolutionary science," and "the mother of all boondoggles."

 

NIF, as it's known, is a five-billion dollar, taxpayer-funded super laser project whose goal is to create nuclear fusion – a tiny star – inside a laboratory. But so far, that hasn't happened.

 

The facility, which began operating in 2009 after a decade of construction at a cost of almost $4 billion, points 192 football-field-sized lasers at one tiny capsule the size of a peppercorn and filled with hydrogen. It creates degrees of heat and pressure never before achieved in a lab.

 

Standing outside NIF's target chamber in 2008, about a year before NIF's dedication, Director Ed Moses called NIF "more far-out, and far cooler than anything in science fiction or fantasy."'

http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/in-livermore-still-waiting-on-nuclear-fusion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-livermore-still-waiting-on-nuclear-fusion