Monthly Archives: October, 2013

Headlines: A Great Blood Story for Halloween

October 31, 2013 - A Transylvanian team of researchers led by Radu Silaghi-Dumetriscu, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Babes-Bolyai University, in...

Climate Change and its Impact on our World’s Rivers: The Case of Australia

Can you name a river in Australia? No Aussies can answer the question. Just the rest of you on the planet. Other than Antarctica,...

Inner Space Update: Oceans are the Focus of the Next “X Prizes”

October 29, 2013 - I am a great believer in prizes as a means of driving technological innovation. From Lindbergh to Rutan, the Spirit...

New Report Addresses Global Challenges and the Future

Prepared by the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations, the report is called "Now for the Long Term." Published on October 16, it is...

Headlines: You Don’t Have to Ask Polar Bears if it is Getting Warmer in the Arctic

October 28, 2013 - Published in the last week in Geophysical Research Letters is a new peer reviewed article entitled Unprecedented recent summer warmth...

Investors Question Valuation of Fossil Fuel Companies in Light of Climate Change

October 27, 2013 - A letter sent to the Chairman, CFO and Chief Executive of BP on September 9, 2013, is one among 45...

Headlines: You Can Become a Certified Future Strategist

October 26, 2013 - The future is on many minds these days as we face resource, population, governance, economic, social and climate change challenges....

Space Update: The Number of Exoplanets Passes 1,000

In 1992 astronomers identified for the first time planetary bodies outside our Solar System. Twenty-one years later that number has grown to 1,010. Of...

Headlines: New Leadless Heart Pacemaker Making Debut in Europe

October 24, 2013 - St. Jude Medical, located in St. Paul, Minnesota, has acquired Nanostim Inc., a California developer of a tiny wireless pacemaker...

Headlines: CARMAT Synthetic Heart Enters Human Clinical Trials

October 23, 2013 - A French company, CARMAT, has recently received approval to begin transplanting its new bioprosthetic artificial heart into patients suffering from...

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