Environmentalists are (half) right about energy subsidies
Sometimes progressive environmentalists have a point.
Science
What are the ethical consequences of immortality technology?
Immortality has gone secular. Unhooked from the realm of gods and angels, it’s now the subject of serious investment – both intellectual and financial – by philosophers, scientists and the Silicon Valley set.
Metal on semiconductors may lead to invisibility cloaks
Researchers have developed a new technique that peppers metallic nanoparticles into semiconductors, an advance that could boost the efficiency of LED lighting by 50 percent and even pave the way for invisibility cloaking devices.
It’s the first technique that can inexpensively grow metal nanoparticles both on and below the surface of semiconductors.
The process adds virtually no cost during manufacturing and its improved efficiency could allow manufacturers to use fewer semiconductors in finished products, making them less expensive.
Who's really anti-science?
Green NGOs are peddling dangerous junk science
How Many People Can The Earth Hold?
There are over seven billion people currently living on Earth, but with limited resources, when will we run out of room?
The wonderfully weird world of Neutrinos
This video is about the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations, which is where neutrinos can change flavors (ie, change between electron, muon, or tau neutrinos) because those interaction states are in non-trivial superpositions of the free traveling/mass eigenstates (?1, ?2 and ?3).
Fear of radiation is more dangerous than radiation itself
All we have to fear is fear.
Newsletter July 4, 2017: Your hardest breakup
State hate, free speech, cyborgs, gun rights, bigotry, augmented reality, passports, solar waste, Elon Musk, and silence.
«We can rebuild him. We have the technology.» ??
In our newsletter for July 2, 2017: Genomics, Africa, critical thinking, minimum wage, Scandinavia, airplanes, sex toys, and igloos.
We Can Now Build Biomolecules From Computer Code — No Humans Necessary
Synthetic Genomics has created a digital-to-biological converter that uses digital code to create biologics like DNA, RNA, proteins, and viral particles. This may have major implications for space colonization, fighting disease outbreaks, and personalized medicine.
