Yearly Archives: 2012

Urban Landscapes Update: A Developing World Solution to Urban Migration in the 21st Century

In previous postings on this blog site I have described the changing face of our world cities both in the Developed and Developing World....

Inventing – The Invent It Challenge 2012

I am a member of ePals, a global community for learners. ePals has partnered with a branch of the Smithsonian National Museum in Washington,...

Energy Update: A Wind Harvester Idea Worth Repeating

Ian Pearson is a futurist and is involved with a consulting practice called Futurizon. A recent blog posting of his at the site caught...

Headlines at 21st Century Tech for December 7, 2012

This week's five stories look at: Shocking Alzheimer's Brains Helps Patients in Clinical Trial; New Breast Cancer Screening Technology Wins Sanofi-Pasteur Prize; Transformers - They're Real and...

Energy Update: The Chinese Talk Up Thorium Fueled Nuclear Reactors

China in its push to reduce its dependence on coal-fired power plants sees thorium liquid salt reactors (TMSRs) as an important step in developing...

Climate Change Update: The Kyoto Protocol Expires December 31, 2012 – What Will Follow?

With the meetings in Doha, Qatar, coming to an end, is there a successor to Kyoto on the global community horizon?  Kyoto was an...

Transportation Update: Going Where No Airplane Can Go – A New Hybrid Air Vehicle

Solar Ship, a Toronto, Ontario, Canada-based company, my home town, has built a one-of-a-kind, helium-filled, delta-shaped. solar-powered, heavier-than-air, airship. It has properties of both...

Water Update: We Look for it on Mars, Mercury, Vesta and the Moon – We Need it Here on Earth

This last week we learned that there is frozen water at Mercury's poles and that water has been detected by Curiosity in its exploration...

Space Update: Curiosity Found Something Organic, But What? – “One for the History Books”

At today's American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, California, NASA scientists announced they had found evidence of organic matter in samples analyzed on...

Biomedicine Update: First Commercial Gene Therapy Treatment to Begin in 2013

From theoretical to deliverable, gene therapy begins its leap to commercial use next year starting with a treatment for lipoprotein lipase deficiency (LPLD). What is...

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