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Let Banks Fail : Iceland's plan looks to be working
Iceland let its banks fail in 2008 because they proved too big to save.Now, the island is finding crisis-management decisions made half a decade ago have put it on a trajectory that’s turned 2%...
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Geopolitical risks for 2014
The Eurasia Group lists its top ten geopolitical risks for 2014In 2014, big-picture economics are stable if not yet comforting. The EU has clawed its way out of recession. Japan has, improbably,...
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China plans to build 13000 to 14000 fiber lines to connect 400 cities
China Mobile is expected to build out 13-14 thousand fiber lines between 400 cities across China. It is planned to be world's largest 100Gigabit backbone deployment.Huawei is the biggest beneficiary of...
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World Tourism Predictions
97 million Chinese tourists that traveled abroad in 2013. The UNWTO states that Chinese tourists saw an increase in travel expenditure of 28 percent in the first three quarters of 2013.A new report by...
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A 96-Antenna System for Next Generation of Wireless
A Rice University wireless antenna rig, known as Argos, represents the largest such array yet built and will serve as a test bed for a concept known as “Massive MIMO.”MIMO, or “multiple-input,...
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Unlocking the solar system with water from asteroids
(Journal Nature) Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, is spewing water vapor out into space. In fact, Ceres might hold more water than Earth does.Over the next 2 years, NASA's Dawn mission,...
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New Quantum Computing Research that is promising for DWave Systems
One research paper could help make the algorithms that used on DWave's adiabatic quantum annealing system faster. Arxiv - Diff erent Strategies for Optimization Using the Quantum Adiabatic AlgorithmWe...
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We have a G Zero world - Solution make more durable and effective coalitions...
Ian Bremmer is the president of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm. Here he gives the talk "The Rise of the Different: Why the Global Order Doesn't Work and...
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Predictions from Davos
At Davos in 2014, forecasters were focused on the pace of the U.S. economy and Federal Reserve tapering of monetary stimulus, the dizzying heights the U.S. stock market has reached, and the impact of...
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Elon Musk on the innovations that will matter, multi-planet civilization, AI...
Elon Musk thinks there are five innovations that will change our lives in the decades ahead.* the Internet, an astonishing invention by which people can access knowledge from anywhere. * the transition...
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Genetically modified Monkeys using CRISPR genome editing and shows that...
China has created genetically modified monkeys using a new method of DNA engineering known as Crispr. The infant macaques show that targeted genome editing is feasible in primates—a potential boon for...
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50 years after US President LBJ, China also declares war on poverty
50 years ago in the USA, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty in his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national...
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China military is weaker and more dangerous than it looks
The Diplomat reports that Chinais the only permanent member of the United Nations Security Council never to have conducted an operational patrol with a nuclear missile submarine. China is also the only...
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Driverless trucks for US Army convoys
Lockheed Martin has shown that fully autonomous convoys can safely navigate road intersections, oncoming traffic, stalled and passing vehicles, and pedestrians. A series of advanced tests in the...
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Star Trek TV series rumors do not seem credible, do not expect a Star Trek TV...
There was an internet rumor of two Star Trek TV shows with plots related to future police shows. These rumors are not credible to me.J.J. Abrams has said CBS Is ‘Not Interested’ in a new Star Trek TV...
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there are an estimated 37 trillion cells in the human body
There are an estimated 37 trillion cells in the human body. This is an estimate from Annals of Human Biology journal.They looked back over scientific journals and books from the past couple centuries...
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Carnival of Space 339
The Carnival of Space 339 is up at the Venus TransitUrban Astronomer - The Frontier Fields program is an ambitious attempt to combine the power of NASA's three flagship space telescopes (Hubble,...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 194
1. Nuke Power Talk - Last week, Gail Marcus reported on a couple of pieces of good news for the nuclear community coming from Europe in her blog, Nuke Power Talk. This week, she turns to the other side...
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Google actually made a profit on its Motorola deal
Yes, Google paid $12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility in 2011. Yes, the company intends to sell much of it to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. But the simple math that yields a $9.59 billion loss is missing a...
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