May 25, 2020
Why We Should Worry About China and India’s Border Skirmishes
Posted by Brent Ellman in category: futurism
Three decades ago, the two countries reached an understanding not to fight. But Beijing is now a much stronger power.
Three decades ago, the two countries reached an understanding not to fight. But Beijing is now a much stronger power.
The Chinese troops crossed 3 km into what India perceives to be its territory South East of the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh.
Excellent speech.
Our civilization is made up of countless individuals and pieces of material technology, which come together to form institutions and interdependent systems of logistics, development and production. These institutions and systems then store the knowledge required for their own renewal and growth.
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Some of these guys could live more than 500 years…
Using a new way to synthesize DNA, Mike Kamdar and his team at Molecular Assemblies are poised to disrupt just about any industry you can imagine.
Using Houston as a model, researchers at Rice’s Brown School of Engineering have developed a plan that could reduce the need for surface water (from rivers, reservoirs or wells) by 28% by recycling wastewater to make it drinkable once again.
While the cost of energy needed for future advanced purification systems would be significant, they say the savings realized by supplementing fresh water shipped from a distance with the “direct potable reuse” of municipal wastewater would more than make up for the expense.
And the water would be better to boot.