Futurist Ray Kurzweil and X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis are setting up a new school at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, to allow graduates from different disciplines to work together and learn about key technologies, which will transform businesses and industries in the years ahead. Read more at BusinessWeek.
A recent study of attitudes of potential IVF treatment patients has
shown that there is a distinct preference for embryo screening for
diseases and also for tall, athletic and intelligent characteristics.
Read more on ScienceBlogs.
A new free game created by MTV Networks, gives you the opportunity to land a plane on the Hudson river just like the recent real life incident. If you land it successfully then the passengers come out and cheer, but if you crash it you just hear gurgling sounds, Read more on Reuters. This could spawn a new wave of news related games.
Amateur Video footage from the actual crash: (CC Flickr - Maiabee)
This is a fantastic time lapse video made by Tel Aviv photographer Eyal Landesman, which has had about 1.5 million hits. Its 3 and half minutes well spent.
Joel Meyerowitz is a veteran of street photography for more than 40 years. Two videos
have been added to the Photo / Video area where he discusses his
philosophy and approach to photography.
Stem cells are being used in a bone marrow transplant study to
reverse MS symptoms. Early results show that a significant number of
patients have showed signs of improvements after the treatment.
Two videos have been added to the Video and Photography section: "Visions of the Future" and "The Genius of Photography". These are multi-segment videos (due to YouTube's 10 minute restriction)
Newspapers are in decline - their circulation figures have been going
down for years, like traditional post (snail mail) - their time has come and gone
and now people increasingly read news online. However, a brand new print
idea has just hit the market - The Printed Blog - A
daily printed newspaper comprised entirely of content from online blogs - Read it in paper form if you are in Chicago, or read it online here -
www.ThePrintedBlog.com
Age-detection technology may soon be installed in cigarette vending machines in Tokyo. New legislation in Japan requires operators of cigarette vending machines to ensure their products are not bought by people aged under 20. The technology counts skin wrinkles, crows feet, and sagging to determine if the buyer is over 20 years of age. This technology could have lots of other applications, such as leveraging the sale of anti-wrinkle creams and preventing the sale of alcohol to minors. Read more on the Reuters site.
Age-detection technology may soon be installed in cigarette vending machines in Tokyo. New legislation in Japan requires operators of cigarette vending machines to ensure their products are not bought by people aged under 20. The technology counts skin wrinkles, crows feet, and sagging to determine if the buyer is over 20 years of age. This technology could have lots of other applications, such as leveraging the sale of anti-wrinkle creams and preventing the sale of alcohol to minors. Read more on the