Lasers vaporize radioactive material and cause a fusion reaction — in effect, a small thermonuclear explosion (credit: Patent Yogi/YouTube)
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Article: Harnessing “Black Holes”: The Large Hadron Collider – Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction
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Harnessing “Black Holes”: The Large Hadron Collider – Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction
Why the LHC must be shut down
CERN-Critics: LHC restart is a sad day for science and humanity!
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PRESS RELEASE “LHC-KRITIK”/”LHC-CRITIQUE” www.lhc-concern.info
CERN-Critics: LHC restart is a sad day for science and humanity!
These days, CERN has restarted the world’s biggest particle collider, the so-called “Big Bang Machine” LHC at CERN. After a hundreds of Million Euros upgrade of the world’s biggest machine, CERN plans to smash particles at double the energies of before. This poses, one would hope, certain eventually small (?), but fundamentally unpredictable catastrophic risks to planet Earth.
Basically the same group of critics, including Professors and Doctors, that had previously filed a law suit against CERN in the US and Europe, still opposes the restart for basically the same reasons. Dangers of: (“Micro”-)Black Holes, Strangelets, Vacuum Bubbles, etc., etc. are of course and maybe will forever be — still in discussion. No specific improvements concerning the safety assessment of the LHC have been conducted by CERN or anybody meanwhile. There is still no proper and really independent risk assessment (the ‘LSAG-report’ has been done by CERN itself) — and the science of risk research is still not really involved in the issue. This is a scientific and political scandal and that’s why the restart is a sad day for science and humanity.
The scientific network “LHC-Critique” speaks for a stop of any public sponsorship of gigantomanic particle colliders.
Just to demonstrate how speculative this research is: Even CERN has to admit, that the so called “Higgs Boson” was discovered — only “probably”. Very probably, mankind will never find any use for the “Higgs Boson”. Here we are not talking about the use of collider technology in medical concerns. It could be a minor, but very improbable advantage for mankind to comprehend the Big Bang one day. But it would surely be fatal – how the Atomic Age has already demonstrated — to know how to handle this or other extreme phenomena in the universe.
Within the next Billions of years, mankind would have enough problems without CERN.
Sources:
- A new paper by our partner “Heavy Ion Alert” will be published soon: http://www.heavyionalert.org/
- Background documents provided by our partner “LHC Safety Review”: http://www.lhcsafetyreview.org/
- Press release by our partner ”Risk Evaluation Forum” emphasizing on renewed particle collider risk: http://www.risk-evaluation-forum.org/newsbg.pdf
- Study concluding that “Mini Black Holes” could be created at planned LHC energies: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-mini-black-holes-lhc-parallel.html
- New paper by Dr. Thomas B. Kerwick on lacking safety argument by CERN: http://vixra.org/abs/1503.0066
- More info at the LHC-Kritik/LHC-Critique website: www.LHC-concern.info
Best regards:
LHC-Kritik/LHC-Critique
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Russia’s ‘Breakthrough’ energy project enables closed a nuclear fuel cycle and a future without radioactive waste. The first batch of MOX nuclear fuel has been manufactured for the world’s only NPP industrially power generating breeder reactors.
The first ten kilograms of the mixed-oxide fuel (MOX) — a mixture of plutonium and uranium dioxides (UO2 and PuO2), have been industrially produced by Russia’s nuclear monopoly, Rosatom, at the Mining & Chemical Combine (GKhK) in the Krasnoyarsk region.
By Justin Huggler, Berlin — The Telegraph
Twenty-eight years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, its effects are still being felt as far away as Germany – in the form of radioactive wild boars.
Wild boars still roam the forests of Germany, where they are hunted for their meat, which is sold as a delicacy.
But in recent tests by the state government of Saxony, more than one in three boars were found to give off such high levels of radiation that they are unfit for human consumption.
By David Szondy — Gizmag
The problem with nuclear waste is that it needs to be stored for many thousands of years before it’s safe, which is a tricky commitment for even the most stable civilization. To make this situation a bit more manageable, Hitachi, in partnership with MIT, the University of Michigan, and the University of California, Berkeley, is working on new reactor designs that use transuranic nuclear waste for fuel; leaving behind only short-lived radioactive elements.
In popular imagination, nuclear waste is a wildly radioactive goo that glows like the back end of a lightning bug. But in real life, the real problem of nuclear waste isn’t the “hot” stuff, but the mildly radioactive elements with atomic numbers greater than 92. That’s because highly radioactive elements have short half lives. That is, they burn themselves out very quickly – sometimes in a matter of minutes or even seconds.
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FEBRUARY 08/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
MITRE-Harvard nanocomputer may point the way to future computer miniaturization
http://www.kurzweilai.net/mitre-harvard-nanocomputer-may-poi…turization
New form of graphene allows electrons to behave like photons
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-form-of-graphene-allows-electr…ke-photons
The first flexible, transparent, and conductive material
http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-first-flexible-transparent-and-conductive-material
Adidas Says Under Armour Infringed Its Wearable-Tech Patents
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-05/adid…ch-patents
The Best Science and Engineering Visualizations of 2013
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/2013-sciviz-winners/
How To Keep Museums Alive In The Age Of Minecraft
http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026074/how-to-keep-museums-alive-…-minecraft
Disrupting Death: These Customized Tombstones Let You Take Your Colorful Personality To The Grave
http://www.fastcocreate.com/3025033/disrupting-death-these-c…y-to-the-g
SolarCoin cryptocurrency pays you to go green
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25010-solarcoin-crypto…vQTboXSmHc
Bio-Hackers Pore Through A Child’s DNA For The Source of A Mysterious Disease
Bio-Hackers Pore Through A Child’s DNA For The Source of A Mysterious Disease
Man With 3-D Printer Prints 3-D Printer That Prints 3-D Printer That Prints 3-D Printer
http://thelapine.ca/man-with-3-d-printer-prints-3-d-printer-…d-printer/
The death of the statistician
http://www.analyticbridge.com/profiles/blogs/the-death-of-the-statistician
Ford’s data scientist: Keep all the data and sort it out later
http://gigaom.com/2014/02/06/fords-data-scientist-keep-all-t…out-later/
How I came to love big data (or at least acknowledge its existence)
http://signalvnoise.com/posts/3315-how-i-came-to-love-big-da…-existence
IBM opens access to SaaS portfolio to help African Universities with next-generation IT skills
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/43122.wss
World’s “least corrupt” nations fail to police bribery abroad
World’s “least corrupt” nations fail to police bribery abroad
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Terrorism Financing (CTF)
http://www.bt.com.au/help/anti-money-laundering-and-counter-…ancing.asp
3D Printing Central to Future Military Strategy
http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/Art…ategy.aspx
Elio Motors and the Three Wheeled Car — A Moonshot Project
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…oject.aspx
When will 3D Printing Reach a Mass Consumer Audience?
http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/Art…ience.aspx
7 Steps to an Awesome Technical Presentation (Part 1 of 4)
http://www.engineering.com/Jobs/JobArticles/ArticleID/7068/7…-of-4.aspx
Top 10 STEM Puns
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…-Puns.aspx
Dude, Where’s My Hydrogen Car?
http://www.engineering.com/ElectronicsDesign/ElectronicsDesi…n-Car.aspx
New Farm Bill Provides Long-Overdue Eligibility for Renewable Chemicals
http://www.bio.org/media/press-release/new-farm-bill-provide…-chemicals
Legislation Introduced To Communicate Prescription Changes to Patients & Physicians
http://www.bio.org/media/press-release/legislation-introduce…physicians
Bioscience Economic Development
http://www.bio.org/articles/bioscience-economic-development
First graphene radio broadcast is a wireless wonder
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24976-first-graphene-r…nline-news
An nanoscale electrical switch for magnetism
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology_news/newsid=34222.php
How to Make a Better Invisibility Cloak—With Lasers
http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/materials/how-to-mak…ith-lasers
Can Graphene Enable Thermal Transistors?
http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/…ductors%29
A new twist to sodium ion battery technology
http://www.materialstoday.com/energy/news/a-new-twist-to-sod…echnology/
New “Photodetector” Nanotechnology Allows Photos in Near Darkness
http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=29284
Self-aligning DNA wires have been constructed for nanoelectronics
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/01/self-aligning-dna-wires-ha…lectronics
Nanocatalyst helps a greenhouse gas turn over a new leaf
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology_news/newsid=34230.php
IBM claims to make “first fully functioning” graphene IC
Quantum dots provide complete control of photons
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/01/quantum-dots-provide-complete-control-photons
Quicker method paves the way for atomic-level design
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology_news/newsid=34226.php#ixzz2sark76Sf
Rice lab clocks “hot” electrons
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/01/rice-lab-clocks-%E2%80%9Ch…-electrons
Arianespace Successfully Delivers Its 250th Launch
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/02/06/arianespace…ium=social
From Occupy to Climate Justice
http://www.thenation.com/article/178242/occupy-climate-justice?page=0,1
Chinese Factories Are Ordered to Release Data on Real-Time Emissions Levels
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-06/chin…ons-levels
When Will Genomics Cure Cancer?
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/when-wil…er/355739/
Visitors to Sochi Olympics will be instantly hacked
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/visitors-to-sochi-olympics-will…18818.html
FAO Food Price Index falls despite climbing dairy prices
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/213481/icode/?utm_sour…content=gk
Tapstream Is Making Mobile Ads Smarter With “Deferred Deep Links,” A Way To Point Users To App Landing Pages After They Install
23AndMe Will Decode Your DNA for $1,000. Welcome to the Age of Genomics
http://www.wired.com/medtech/genetics/magazine/15-12/ff_…ntPage=all
20 unpronounceable tech brands — and how to say them
http://www.itworld.com/it-management/403502/20-unpronounceab…w-say-them
Can Twitter’s Big Data Influence The Music Business?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bobbyowsinski/2014/02/06/can-twi…ium=social
Venture capital’s stunning lack of female decision-makers
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2014/02/06/venture-capitals-s…ign=buffer
Artificial intelligence: the companies behind Britain’s ‘smart’ revolution
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10610734/Artifici…ution.html
As artificial intelligence grows, so do ethical concerns
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/As-artificial-intel…194466.php
Computing with silicon neurons: Scientists use artificial nerve cells to classify different types of data
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140128094539.htm
‘Friendly’ robots could allow for more realistic human-android relationships
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140206082401.htm
6 Exponential Technologies of Tomorrow
http://www.wfs.org/content/6-exponential-technologies-tomorrow
Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back for mice
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/20/anti-ageing-human-trials
U.S. Agencies Take Significant Step Toward Wirelessly Connecting Vehicles To One Another
http://singularityhub.com/2014/02/05/u-s-agencies-take-signi…e-another/
New Stratasys 3D Printer Makes Multi-Material, Full Color Parts in a Single Run
http://singularityhub.com/2014/02/06/new-stratasys-3d-printe…ingle-run/
Do You Trust Internet-Connected Appliances Enough To Let Them Run Your Home?
http://singularityhub.com/2014/02/03/do-you-trust-internet-c…ur-home-2/
Illumina Claims New Sequencer Transcribes 18,000 Genomes per Year at $1,000 Each
http://singularityhub.com/2014/02/02/illumina-claims-new-seq…1000-each/
Simple Method for Creating Stem Cells Promises Cheaper, Faster Therapies
http://singularityhub.com/2014/01/30/simple-method-for-creat…therapies/
Google’s AI Acquisition Blurs Lines Between Futuristic Visions and Business-as-Usual
http://singularityhub.com/2014/01/30/googles-ai-acquisition-…-as-usual/
Rejections for Sandy Grants Are Questioned
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230349680…l&mod=e2tw
New Inexpensive Skin Test in Development to Diagnose Malaria in an Instant
http://singularityhub.com/2014/01/29/new-inexpensive-skin-te…n-instant/
uArm, A Mini Robotic Arm You Can Assemble and Control
http://singularityhub.com/2014/01/28/uarm-a-mini-robotic-arm…d-control/
QUOTATION(S): “…It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring…” AND “…Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion…”
CITATION(S): “…HUMAN KNOWLEDGE IS DOUBLING EVERY TEN YEARS [AS PER THE 1998 STANDARDS].…COMPUTER POWER IS DOUBLING EVERY EIGHTEEN MONTHS. THE INTERNET IS DOUBLING EVERY YEAR. THE NUMBER OF DNA SEQUENCES WE CAN ANALYZE IS DOUBLING EVERY TWO YEARS…”
BOOK(S): Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 by Michio Kaku. ISBN-13: 978–0307473332
Regards,
Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Futurist
and Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
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FEBRUARY 07/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
The Ryno Microcycle is a Sci-Fi Inspired Single Wheeler
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…eeler.aspx
Rigged rules mean economic growth increasingly “winner takes all” for rich elites all over world
http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2014-01&#…ich-elites
Economist Debates: Democracy economist.com
http://www.economist.com/debate/overview/196
Behavioral Economics Gives The Advertising Industry A Nudge In The Right Direction
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnowrid/2014/02/05/behavioural…direction/
Penn State Students Seek Crowdfunding To Land A Hopping Rover On The Moon
http://realtime.rediff.com/news/realtime/Penn-State-Students…adheadline
Bitcoin Has the Power to Transform Digital Media Forever
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-power-transform-digital-media-forever/
The coin prince: inside Bitcoin’s first big money-laundering scandal
http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/4/5374172/the-coin-prince-cha…ng-scandal
Business consulting – helping you outperform in a digital world
http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/consulting/
Be it bitcoins or dollars, money’s value rooted in beliefs
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-02-…n-zerocoin
Why Google Cannot Run The World: Wisdom = Data + Experience
http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgebradt/2014/02/05/why-googl…xperience/
Why Launching an Online Brand Takes Guts and 3 Tips for How to Do It Right
http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/2326949/why-launching-an…o-it-right
Satya Nadella’s First Email To Employees As New Microsoft CEO: ‘Who Am I?
http://www.businessinsider.com/satya-nadella-email-to-micros…2014-2
Five things you should know about running your business from home
http://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2014/jan/2…technology
UPDATE 2-JPMorgan to pay $614 mln in U.S. mortgage fraud case
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/05/jpmorgan-settle-idUSL2N0L928N20140205
Three things to watch on information sharing
http://fcw.com/articles/2014/01/31/paul-on-info-sharing-2014.aspx
Senate cybersecurity report finds agencies often fail to take basic preventive measures
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/senate-cyb…story.html
UK Governments 10 Step Guide to reducing risk of Cyber Attack
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm…cutive.pdf
Do You Want a Lot More Social Media Views?
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140204130648…k=RSS_Feed
Interview: Peter Singer on cybersecurity and cyberwar
http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2014/02/04/Interview-Pet…p0.twitter
A Guide to the Internet of Things Infographic
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intelligent-systems/i…nside.html
Facebook domain hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/35284/facebook-domain-hacked-b…index.html
The Rise of Quantum Computing
http://csrspreadscience.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/the-rise-of-quantum-computing/
Wozniak: Apple Could Build Droid Phones, Warns of ‘Police State’
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/mobile-enterprise/wozniak-apple-c…024070.php
Your memory is no video camera: It edits the past with present experiences
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140204185651.htm
Superhumans Created by Nanotechnology within 30 years
5 Emerging Technologies That Could Destroy The World
Man Gets First Prosthetic Hand That Can Feel
http://news.yahoo.com/man-gets-first-prosthetic-hand-feel-202300302.html
PENTAGON CHIEF: The Military Is Facing A Potential Ethical ‘Breakdown’
http://www.businessinsider.com/hagel-ethical-breakdown-2014-2
The Future Of Stealth Camouflage In Special Operations
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-future-of-stealth-camoufl…2014-2
CONTAGION: Here Are 12 Frequently-Asked Questions About One Of The Most Serious Risks In Financial Markets
http://www.businessinsider.com/contagion-frequently-asked-qu…z2sVwwoExE
A New Quantum Communication Breakthrough Will Help Us Make A Super-Secure Internet
http://www.businessinsider.com/quantum-teleportation-fiber-o…z2sVyPBOCl
Extraordinary stem cell method tested in human tissue
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25004-extraordinary-st…vMaFrTSmHd
Is Google Building An Android Army? They Just Bought Another Artificial Intelligence Company
http://www.policymic.com/articles/81105/is-google-building-a…ce-company
Ray Kurzweil is wrong: The Singularity is not near
http://pando.com/2014/02/03/the-singularity-is-not-near/
PayPal Is Cracking Down on Bitcoin Sellers
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/05/idUS371088795720140205
QUOTATION(S): “…Change is hard. Change is hardest on those caught by surprise. Change is hardest on those who have difficulty changing too. But change is natural; change is not new; change is important…” AND “…Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition…”
CITATION: “…BEGINNING WITH THE AMOUNT OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE KNOWN WORLD AT THE TIME OF CHRIST, STUDIES HAVE ESTIMATED THAT THE FIRST DOUBLING OF THAT KNOWLEDGE TOOK PLACE ABOUT 1700 A.D. THE SECOND DOUBLING OCCURRED AROUND THE YEAR 1900. IT IS ESTIMATED TODAY THAT THE WORLD’S KNOWLEDGE BASE WILL DOUBLE AGAIN BY 2010 AND AGAIN AFTER THAT BY 2013…”
RECOMMENDED BOOK(S): Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier. ISBN-13: 978–1451654967
Regards,
Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Futurist
and Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
The Future of Scientific Management, Today!
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FEBRUARY 06/2014 UPDATES [LIST]. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
Faraway Planets May Be Far Better for Life http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/superhabitable-planets/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+sciam/space+%28Topic:+Space%29
Six Trends That Will Shape Consumer Behavior This Year http://www.forbes.com/sites/onmarketing/2014/02/04/six-trend…this-year/
Viewing Cancer as a Physics Problem Suggests New Treatments http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/viewing-cancer-as-…reatments/
Brain Scans Show Promise for Early Detection of Cognitive Problems http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-scans-show-p…-problems/
DNA-origami nanotubes self-align with self-organized nanoscale patterns to create nanoelectronic circuits http://www.kurzweilai.net/dna-origami-nanotubes-self-align-w…c-circuits
First single-molecule LED http://www.kurzweilai.net/first-single-molecule-led
Virus-free, cord-blood-derived stem cells repair retinal tissue in mice http://www.kurzweilai.net/virus-free-cord-blood-derived-stem…ue-in-mice
Will ‘borophene’ replace graphene as a better conductor of electrons? http://www.kurzweilai.net/will-borophene-replace-graphene-as…-electrons
The mind-blowing mathematics of sunflowers http://www.sciencedump.com/content/mind-blowing-mathematics-sunflowers
Miniature satellites utilize UDP-based multicasting over WIFI to relay data in a more secure and direct way. http://www.psfk.com/2014/02/outer-space-wifi-global-access.html#!usmgT
First Single-Molecule LED http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/nanotechno…lecule-led
The Critical Security Controls for Effective Cyber Defense 5.0 Opens to Public Comment https://www.sans.org/press/the-critical-security-controls-fo…omment.php
Six Simple Insights to Become a Better Innovator http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140203094739…-innovator
13 Predictions About The Future That Were Spectacularly Wrong http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/03/wrong-predictions-a…97269.html
The future of wearables: 8 predictions from tech leaders http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57618181-94/the…h-leaders/
India’s first ‘school in the cloud’ aims to elevate kids http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57618332-1/i…vate-kids/
Nationalism could destroy global economy, warns Christine Lagarde http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/globalbusiness/10615697/N…garde.html
“Perception” and “Prediction” Goal of Ford’s MIT/Stanford Automated Driving Partnership http://www.arisplex.com/analysis/perception-prediction-goal-…rtnership/
Johnson & Johnson Takes Newspaper Readers Back With Ads That Smell Like Baby Powder http://www.fastcocreate.com/3025969/johnson-johnson-takes-in…aby-powder
Scratch-Off Bus Stop Ads Reveal Hidden Art http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/02/scratch-off-these-bus-stop…idden-art/
How Architecture Could Shape Your Microbiome http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025782/asides/how-architecture-…microbiome
Expansion Boom in the UK from Overseas Internet Shoppers http://localuknews.co.uk/article/expansion-boom-in-the-uk-fr…t-shoppers
Twitter Is Hiring Commerce Specialists http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/03/twitter-is-hiring-commerce-specialists/
Teaching Surgery With Google Glass–Will This Actually Work? http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026021/teaching-surgery-with-goog…ually-work
Lightwaves used by neuroscientists to improve brain tumor surgery http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140129114612.ht…ceDaily%29
DARPA wants self-destructible computer chips http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/02/04/darpa-wants-self-dest…ter-chips/
Spare parts for fighter jets made by 3D printers http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/spare-parts-for-fighter-jets…45;3256664
A market for anti-NSA technology emerges http://www.lohud.com/usatoday/article/4656195
Construction’s Growing Role in Renewable Energy http://www.insurancejournal.com/magazines/features/2014/01/13/316343.htm
CDM Jan 2014 is out for free – Welcome 2014: The Year of Mobile Spying and Privacy Concerns http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/21818/security/cdm-jan-2…cerns.html
Solving the Mobile Device Dilemma: InZero Systems offers 2-Tablets-in-1 http://www.prlog.org/12276372-solving-the-mobile-device-dile…-in-1.html
4 Things You Need to Know About Future NSA Director Michael Rogers http://mashable.com/2014/01/31/nsa-director-michael-rogers/
Bank Financing Played Big Role in Trade Collapse http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/01/31/bank-financing-pla…-collapse/
What We Talk About When We Talk About Economies Of Scale In Tech http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/02/what-we-talk-about-when-we-…e-in-tech/
Al-Qaida Cuts Ties with Syrian Rebel Group http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/al-qaida-cuts-ties-syrian-rebel-group/
House Approves Bill on WMD Medical Countermeasures Expenditures http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/house-approves-bill-authorizi…rmeasures/
Moscow Agrees To Process Uzbekistan’s Spent Nuclear Fuel http://article.wn.com/view/2014/02/04/Moscow_Agrees_to_Proce…lear_Fuel/
Top 13 Cyber Security predictions for 2014… http://techday.com/it-brief/news/top-13-cyber-security-predi…14/174862/
Cyber Security Market Forecast 2014–2024 http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/cyber-security-mar…87631.html
Obama hooks up new school broadband plan http://www.zdnet.com/obama-hooks-up-new-school-broadband-plan-7000025964/
Sailors allegedly cheated on nuclear reactor tests http://www.stripes.com/
Secret Service urges lawmakers to do more on cyber crime http://news.yahoo.com/secret-urges-u-lawmakers-more-cyber-cr…ector.html
As Cyber Crime Matures, More Hacked Accounts Expected http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2014/02/03/as-cyber-cr…-expected/
Cyber-defence boss joins security company, warns: ‘You can’t keep a determined adversary out’ http://www.zdnet.com/cyber-defence-boss-joins-security-compa…000025931/
Military Force vs. Diplomacy: Can You Have One Without the Other? http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2014/01/military-force-vs-di…f=d-skybox
Nation Faces Many Threats, Intelligence Chief Says http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=121608
Change Agents: William Li’s robot wants to police you http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/01/26/knightscope-k5…t/4018047/
Troubleshooting TBI: How to Beat the Odds http://military-fitness.military.com/2014/02/troubleshooting…-odds.html
Narratives in the analytics era http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/2014/2/4/5360412/nhl-analytics-narratives-media
Rural carriers start connecting customers to doctors via mobile video chat http://gigaom.com/2014/02/04/rural-carriers-start-connecting…ideo-chat/
Out in the Open: Man Creates One Programming Language to Rule Them All http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/02/julia/
From Secondary Intelligence Shortage to Secondary Intelligence Surplus http://www.clearci.com/blog/bid/193744/From-Secondary-Intell…ce-Surplus
The networked car is no longer just an idea; it will be mandated in future vehicles http://gigaom.com/2014/02/03/the-networked-car-is-no-longer-…-vehicles/
Why the only thing better than big data is bigger data http://qz.com/169206/why-the-only-thing-better-than-big-data-is-bigger-data/
QUOTATION: “…Thirty-five years ago, psychologist and visionary Dr. Abraham Maslow warned, ‘life is moving far more rapidly now than ever before in the rate of growth of facts, knowledge, techniques, and inventions. We need a different kind of human being able to life in a world that changes perpetually, who has been educated to be comfortable with change and situations in which he has absolutely no forewarning. The society that can turn out those people will survive. Societies which do not will die.’…”
RECOMMENDED BOOK: Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime by Aubrey de Grey and Michael Rae. ISBN-13: 978–0312367077
Regards,
Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk Management Tranformative Futurist
The Future Observatory
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FEBRUARY 05/2014 UPDATES [LIST]. By Mr. Andres Agostini at www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com
Do autistic brains create more information at rest or do they have weaker connectivity — or both?
http://www.kurzweilai.net/do-autistic-brains-create-more-inf…ty-or-both
‘Electronic tongue’ identifies brands of beer with 81.9% accuracy
http://www.kurzweilai.net/electronic-tongue-identifies-brand…9-accuracy
Bodily maps of emotions
http://www.kurzweilai.net/bodily-maps-of-emotions
Antibiotic ‘smart bomb’ can target specific strains of bacteria
http://www.kurzweilai.net/antibiotic-smart-bomb-can-target-s…f-bacteria
Trends and Predictions: How the Future Looks Like for Web Design in 2014
Trends and Predictions: How the Future Looks Like for Web Design in 2014
Credit cards of the future: 4 exciting trends
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/credit-cards-of-the-future-4-e…z2sMsGbooH
The 5 foods best-suited for 3D printing
http://www.fooddive.com/news/the-5-foods-best-suited-for-3d-printing/222556/
Nature is Not Human-Centric
http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2014/01/nature-is-not-human-centric/
Your Brain Is Fine-Tuning Its Wiring Throughout Your Life
http://myscienceacademy.org/2014/02/03/your-brain-is-fine-tu…9896376047]&action_type_map=[%22og.likes%22]&action_ref_map=[]
The World’s Smallest Engine Runs on a Single Atom
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/extre…m-16451781
Guest column: Constituent care — Are government contact centers ready for the generational flood?
http://fedscoop.com/guest-column-constituent-care-government…SY.twitter
Searching for Life on Earth-Like Planets May Be a Mistake, Need to Consider Superhabitable Planets
Searching for Life on Earth-Like Planets May Be a Mistake, Need to Consider Superhabitable Planets
Survey says more attention being paid to data privacy, but still a ways to go
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/013114-survey-says-mor…ign=buffer
Quantum engineers make a major step towards a scalable quantum computer
http://www.kurzweilai.net/quantum-engineers-make-a-major-ste…m-computer
Was There A Beginning Of Time And Will There Be An End Of Time?
http://www.messagetoeagle.com/timeslowingdown.php?utm_source…vEN9LTSmHd
DHS has become the epicenter for government cybersecurity
http://www.gsnmagazine.com/node/32882?c=cyber_security
THE FUTURE OF THE MIND: Official Trailer
http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/89414/the-future-of-the-mind/
What the Internet of Things Will Mean for CIOs
http://www.cio.com/article/747634/What_the_Internet_of_Things_Will_Mean_for_CIOs
Why predictive maintenance is more relevant today than ever before
http://www.simafore.com/blog/bid/204618/Why-predictive-maint…ver-before
Stanford scientists put free text-analysis tool on the web
http://engineering.stanford.edu/research-profile/stanford-sc…s-tool-web
Dangerous ideas: About that Princeton Facebook study — wrong, but not entirely crazy
http://which-50.com/post/75339864941/dangerous-ideas-about-t…book-study
Personal Banking and the Data-Driven Approach
http://www.analyticbridge.com/profiles/blogs/personal-bankin…e=activity
20 Lessons Enterprise CIOs Can Learn from Supercomputing
http://www.datanami.com/datanami/2012-11-12/20_lesso…uting.html
Big data misused to justify vaccination
http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/big-data-mi…accination
First Single-Molecule LED
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/nanotechno…lecule-led
Employment in Renewable Energy Sector Reaches 5.7 Million Globally
http://www.irena.org/News/Description.aspx?NType=A&mnu=cat&P…ews_ID=351
The World Has Deep Areas of Expertise. We Need Agility and Context
http://bigthink.com/big-think-edge/the-world-has-deep-areas-…nk+Main%29
Marc Andreessen Has A Great Answer For Why Bitcoin Matters
http://www.businessinsider.com/marc-andreessen-on-why-bitcoi…2014-1
Motorola Patents Electronic Telepathy
http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/01/14/electronic-telepathy/
New Solar Cells Get the Blues in a Good Way
A window to the future of research
http://www.mpg.de/7865824/Science_Tunnel
Surface map of a brown dwarf
http://www.mpg.de/7870755/surface-map-brown-dwarf
The future of oil supply
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/2014/2006.xhtml
The Human enhancement and the future of work project
http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/human-enhancement/workshop-report/
Whole-genome sequence of a flatfish provides insights into ZW sex chromosome evolution and adaptation to a benthic lifestyle
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.2890.html
Scientists reading fewer papers for first time in 35 years
http://www.nature.com/news/scientists-reading-fewer-papers-f…rs-1.14658
Elsevier opens its papers to text-mining
http://www.nature.com/news/elsevier-opens-its-papers-to-text-mining-1.14659
Top UK university pledges reform to ‘change the culture’ of its animal research
Top UK university pledges reform to ‘change the culture’ of its animal research
Challenging Israel
Pruning Synapses Improves Brain Connections
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39055/…nnections/
Science Cartoonist Doesn’t Draw “Funny Style”
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39033/…ny-Style-/
Opinion: The Burden of Proof
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39053/…-of-Proof/
The Dilemma of Space Debris
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/1/the-d…ace-debris
Flights of Fancy in Avian Evolution
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/1/fligh…-evolution
How to Fight Back Against Antibiotic Resistance
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/1/how-t…resistance
Ocean Acidification: The Other Climate Change Issue
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/1/ocean…ange-issue
QUOTATION: “…The flattening of the world is going to be hugely disruptive to both traditional and developed societies. The weak will fall further behind faster. The traditional will feel the force of modernization much more profoundly. The new will get turned into old quicker. The developed will be challenged by the underdeveloped much more profoundly. I worry, because so much political stability is built on economic stability, and economic stability is not going to be a feature of the flat world. Add it all up and you can see that the disruptions and going to come faster and harder. No one is immune ─ not me, not you, not Microsoft. WE ARE ENTERING AN ERA OF CREATIVE DESTRUCTION ON STEROIDS. Dealing with flatism is going to be a challenge of a whole new dimension even if your country has a strategy. But if you don’t have a strategy at all, well, again, you’ve warned…”
RECOMMENDED BOOK: The Living Company: Growth, Learning and Longevity in Business by Arie De Geus
ISBN-13: 978–1857881851
Regards,
Mr. Andres Agostini
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