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06 October 2011
TECHNOLOGY - Reusing plastics
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Mike Biddle has found practical ways to recycle mixed plastics in the form of sorted raw material pellets. This is something that is urgentl...
05 October 2011
TECHNOLOGY - LibreOffice
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If you use or need an office suite, it's worth considering LibreOffice. There are a number of reasons for this and some of them may surp...
03 October 2011
TECHNOLOGY - Reusable rockets
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SpaceX is an innovative space launch company with a number of impressive 'firsts' to their name and a large order book of reservatio...
18 September 2011
TECHNOLOGY - A trip on the ISS
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How amazing to watch the earth as the International Space Station whizzes past. This video was made by James Drake from a long series of sti...
11 May 2011
TECHNOLOGY - Chromebook is coming!
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Chromebook? What's that ?!! It's Google's plan to replace operating systems with a device that does nothing but browse the web. ...
16 March 2011
Messenger in orbit
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The Mercury Messenger probe is intended to make a long burn to decelerate into Mercury orbit tomorrow (Thursday 17th March). If successful t...
17 January 2011
RESPONSE - Permaculture
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Peter Farmer posted a video and a link to Permaculture. I'm repeating them here along with the comment I left on his website 'Pione...
07 January 2011
TECHNOLOGY - Electric vehicles with a difference
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Better Place have been beavering away for some years, agreeing deals with nations and states around the world, developing the technology, ma...
30 December 2010
TECHNOLOGY - Writing on a hair
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Nottingham University's Nanotechnology Centre are used to viewing and manipulating very small items. When it came to finding a birthd...
09 December 2010
TECHNOLOGY - SpaceX, another first
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It was a privilege to be able to watch SpaceX's live webcast of the launch of their first Dragon capsule. This is a unique achievement,...
03 November 2010
TECHNOLOGY - The Cool Farm Tool
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The Cool Farm Tool is a spreadsheet that allows farmers, growers and organisations interested in crop production to easily model greenhouse ...
19 October 2010
SCIENCE - 500 planets
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Not that long ago (pre 1994) we only knew of nine planets, and one of those has been demoted to dwarf planet status. Today we know of nearly...
05 October 2010
TECHNOLOGY - Dragon readies for launch
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Most people are aware that the American Space Shuttle fleet is being retired. The last flight is currently scheduled for next year, 2011. Af...
27 September 2010
Can decentralised control work?
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Most businesses and other large organisations (government, church, military, education, medical) are based on a hierarchical command and con...
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25 April 2010
Science and faith - war or peace?
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The origin of the universe, the origin of life, evolution - these are some of the topics that seem to be endlessly debated across the scienc...
03 March 2010
The Human Genome Project - Ten years on
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The first human genome was sequenced ten years ago. It was a huge and expensive project that could be repeated today 500 times as fast at 1...
24 February 2010
USA thinks open source is piracy!
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Now here is a very strange thing. It seems that the USA considers Canada to be guilty of a sort of intellectual property theft, or if not ex...
17 February 2010
UPDATE - Better Place rolls out first trial
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Here's the latest on Shai Agassi's Better Place company. The trial rollout of a few hundred cars has begun in Israel. See main artic...
14 February 2010
The TED Conference - Microsoft's mapping
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Microsoft seems to be making great strides with online mapping and the integration of such things as user imagery and even live video. Fasci...
Shai Agassi - Joined-up thinking
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Shai Agassi , the Israeli/American alternative energy entrepreneur is thinking big. he can't help it, it's in his nature! The most v...
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