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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Farmerless tractors
A project, called Hands Free Farm has been advancing agricultural automation. The near term goal is a 35-hectare section maintained by automated farm equipment.Changes are already underway in the agricultural sector: "...GPS-guided tractors can already plow fields...
Quadrants for visualizing classifications
I saw an article describing how the writer uses quadrants to make decision about technology.A quadrant takes two binary categories and allows you to combine them into a more nuanced layout for decisions and classification.The example in the article is a way to look at...
Kansas teen uses 3-D printer to make hand for boy
Via Instapundit and KansasCity.com: John Sleezer | The Kansas City Star Mason Wilde, 16, has been building things since he was little. He put his skills to good use by using the Johnson County Library’s 3-D printer to craft a prosthetic hand for 9-year-old Matthew,...
The lasers fuelling hopes of unlimited, clean nuclear energy
Via The Independent: Scientists in California said on Wednesday night that they have for the first time managed to release more energy from their nuclear fusion experiment than they put into it, which marks a critical threshold in eventually achieving the goal of a...
The lasers fuelling hopes of unlimited, clean nuclear energy
Via The Independent: Scientists in California said on Wednesday night that they have for the first time managed to release more energy from their nuclear fusion experiment than they put into it, which marks a critical threshold in eventually achieving the goal of a...
How to Get the Wrong People Off the Bus
Via strategy+business: …culture can be a bit amorphous. Few companies successfully develop one. Fewer still can articulate theirs in a mission statement, let alone truly incorporate it into everything they do: making culture a part of their performance criteria,...
How to Get the Wrong People Off the Bus
Via strategy+business: …culture can be a bit amorphous. Few companies successfully develop one. Fewer still can articulate theirs in a mission statement, let alone truly incorporate it into everything they do: making culture a part of their performance criteria,...
Gene Surgery Creates First Monkeys Modified with Precision Genome Editing
Via MIT Technology Review: The fact that genome editing worked to create modified monkeys suggests it might also work to create genetically modified humans. Crispr is already used to modify human cells grown in labs, but it has not yet been tested on human embryos or...