February 2012
Donal Sadoway Liquid Metal Battery #TED
Electricity supply has to match electricity demand.
We don’t have a gigantic battery. Liquid metal battery he invented at MIT.
Volta invented the battery in Italy 200 years ago. Volta proved the utility of the battery and the utility of a professor :)
If you want to make something dirt cheap make it out of dirt!
Liquid Metal Battery team at MIT GoupSadoway.
LMBC is the company he...
Regina Dugan Introducing DARPA #TED
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
I am not encouraging failure I want to overcome fear of failure.
1947 first flight that breaks speed of sound.
Many rockets failed before space exploration started.
At Mach 20 we can fly NYC to LA in 11 minutes.
Hipersonic flying. 3 minutes of controlled Mach 20 flying was achieved.
Hummingbird is the only bird that can fly...
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What's happening at TED on Wednesday, February 29
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> Good morning! After a great first day of TED, we’re up for a full day of sessions, starting at 8:30am with The Lab …
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> Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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> Session 4: The Lab
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> Henrik Schärfe, roboticist...
Peter Diamantis #TED the optimist
Amygdala is our early warning danger detector and that’s why we tend to favor bad news.
This presentation looks like it will be a counterpoint to the one just now of Paul Gildings.
Over last century lifespan has doubled, he shows a ton of great news, that we live in the most peaceful time in history but most forget this.
He cites The Rational Optimist. He cites Kurzweil curve of...
Netia is Fon’s Newest Partner
Fon is off to a good start in 2012. Just after announcing 5 million hotspots, we are now announcing a new partnership, our first this year. We are partnering with Netia, one of Poland’s largest telcos.
This is a great partnership for us because Netia is Poland’s most innovative telco, and shares our vision of delivering easy access to people, regardless of their location.
Of course, this is...
Paul Gilding, #TED, the earth is full
We are living beyond our means we need 1.5X planet than we have.
We are stealing from the future. Our economy is unsustainable and when things are unsustainable they stop. But economic growth is essential to our society. We cant understand that we cant have infinite growth in a finite planet. And growth and resource consumption is accelerating. Especially with China.
9 billion people in 2050...
Sarah Parcak at #TED 2012 using satellites to aid...
Space archeology is a new field in which findings come from space theory.
Archeologists process satellite data using infrared they can see street, houses, they can create a map out of satellite images that you would not find walking around.
3100 new ancient Egyptians sites were found with satellite technology.
Brian Greene at #TED my notes
1990s astronomers tried to measure how expansion rate of the universe was slowing
And they found that instead it is accelerating.
So what force is causing this?
Gravity pulls things together but it can also be repulsive gravity it can pull things apart.
Dark energy causes this but nobody understands how. A multiverse may be the answer.
String theory is an approach to describe all forces...
Fon Reaches Five Million Hotspots
Today, I am happy to announce that the company I started just over six years ago, Fon, has just passed the important milestone of five million hotspots.
Why is this important? Because while many have tried to build a large and global WiFi network, Fon has been the only company in the world to actually achieve this. No other network even comes close to us. Fon is everywhere, even in residential...
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Sometimes being poor does not mean being unhappy.
What happens when a country mostly gives up...
During Franco´s dictatorship Spain was a very Catholic country. After more than 3 decades of democracy, Spain is not really a Catholic country anymore. First, loss of religion became apparent with the legalization of divorce and contraceptives and the promotion of sex ed. This was followed by the decriminalization of abortion, the acceptance of drug possession for personal consumption (drug users...
Genetic Testing for Health, Disease & Ancestry;... →
I am an investor on 23andme. I have also taken the test of course. What I find fascinating is that you take the test once but more and more information comes to you as the data base grows and more is known about your genetic sequence.