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Singularity University which is a private university dedicated to speeding education in science and technology is giving away about 50k in cash and services to startups pursuing the new field of synthetic biology to help solve major projects including energy, healthcare. Singularity University To Incubate Synthetic Biology Startups With New Program | Singularity Hub. Related…
The Stanford professor whose online computer science course went viral is now at it again.. From Silicon Valley, A New Approach To Education : All Tech Considered : NPR. Related articles Stanford University Students Launch Sites By Hand, A Social Business for Global Development of Personal Websites and Effective Web Solutions (prweb.com) Menlo Ventures’ Pishevar…
Your Inner Ecosystem | On Point with Tom Ashbrook Envwining a new healthcare industry based on the biome not synthetic chemicals. Related articles Interdependence of Life – Earth’s Ecosystems (floydmiddle.typepad.com) How does the ocean biome collapse? (ask.metafilter.com) A Day in Eden – St Austell, United Kingdom (travelpod.com) Breitling BlackBird. the Arctic Tundra, the Antarctic Tundra,…
New Boston biotech companies such as Ginkgo BioWorks, Cambrian Innovation, and Manus Biosynthesis are tapping into ancient organisms and new IT capabilities to produce new solutions that are environmentally clean, US based, and fast with as little as 6 month product development life cycles. Gingko notes that 1/4 of their employees are software developers and…
Cool. Contaminant free shrimp raised in the desert from Blue Oasis, the aquaculture division of Ganix Biotechnologies Inc Better Living Through Aquaculture | Autograph Collection Magazine Related articles Green Blog: A Milestone Looms for Farm-Raised Fish (green.blogs.nytimes.com) OriginOil Tests Breakthrough Aquaculture Water Decontamination System (triplepundit.com) Shark DNA Used to Buff Up Aquacultured Fish (southernfriedscience.com)…
Pretty much a perfect day of xc skiing and pancakes. Snowshoes and maple at Morse Farm in Montpelier, Vt. – Boston.com.
Obama‘s recent State of the Union highlighted the continued importance of increased development of renewable and clean technologies, job training and education through community colleges and e-learning, healthcare and government systems consolidation, information security and rural broadband access, tax code streamlining and fostering innovative US based companies like Apple. And he is showing how his…
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Something in the water – Boston.com. I’ve long followed the field of garbology, or what we can learn from our waste, but now a new molecular twist has come along…. Related articles Molecular Gastronomy Comes To Fast Food (qsrmagazine.com) The Initiation and Growth of Molecular Biology and Genomics (pharmaceuticalintelligence.com) Managing Archaeological Data in the Digital…
Bard MBA in Sustainability . Related articles Bard College to Launch Innovative MBA in Sustainability in New York City in Fall 2012 The Importance of Embedding Sustainability in Secondary Education Curriculums R. Paul Herman: Who Are The Real “Job Creators”? They Are Not Who You Think Where the Jobs Are: How to Reach Full Employment…
Mercer’s 2011 Cost of Living survey highlights. best cost of living index for 150 cities. lists cities which are least expensive to retire to worldwide. Related articles Cost of countryside living rises – Confused.com (confused.com) How does your cost of living compare to other cities? (christianpf.com) Tax the Rich? Itemized Deductions & Cost of Living…
Stanford’s Online High School Raises the Bar – NYTimes.com. Related articles StartX, Stanford’s nonprofit accelerator, nabs $800,000 funding grant (venturebeat.com) Inside Stanford’s creativity factory (management.fortune.cnn.com) The Way of the Future: Coursera (jaypgreene.com) Home Schooling As the 21st Century Model for Public Schools? (etcjournal.com) Dear Candice, I’m Sorry About The Internet – LockerGnome (lockergnome.com) The…
Recently I’ve become aware of more and more concern about the electromagnetic soup we are embedded in from all of our various gadgets. While Europe has taken a much more cautious approach on this, the USA as always, has let free enterprise rule. Here is a fairly balanced Wiki article on this topic. Needless to…
A good overview of the need to make finance more social e.g. focused on the cultural, health and the environmental context of investments. David Blood is a graduate of Hamilton College ’81 who I heard at the reunion weekend.
Hipmunk updates flight search app for iPad | Travel | Macworld. Related articles Hipmunk Flight & Hotel Search (for iPad) (pcmag.com) Find your next flight with Hipmunk iPhone app (reviews.cnet.com) Review: Don’t leave home without Hipmunk’s travel search app for iOS (macworld.com) Hipmunk (pcmag.com) Hipmunk and Kayak launch tools to help you fly cheap (venturebeat.com)…
Introduced by noted anthropologist and dean Katherine Newman the graduation ceremony for JHU Krieger School of Arts and Sciences featured Thomas Lovejoy, founder of Nature series on PBS and the Biodiversity Chair at the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment based in Washington, DC. Lovejoy noted that “human creativity is without limits” and critical…
For years, other countries have been far more cautious about the impacts of electromagnetic radiation on human health than in the US and far too little is known about this as we increasingly expose ourselves to these fields. In parts of Europe for example there are much stricter regulations on exposure to EMFs than in…
Increasingly I’ve noted the rise in the rental economy in the USA as the previous ownership mentality of many Americans traumatized by economic collapse and wealth inequalities is replaced by one of access. One interesting example of this is college students who, according to a slew of recent articles, are now taking over McMansions which…
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