Yearly Archives: 2013

Headlines: University of Georgia Researchers Use Nanoparticles in Fight Against Cancer

August 23, 2013, Nanotechnology is making a big contribution to medical science. At the University of Georgia scientists in the NanoTherapeutics Research Laboratory are...

Headlines: Inhalable Insulin Could End Injections for Diabetics

August 23, 2013, I saw this report in Bloomberg Businessweek Technology about AFREZZA, a rapid-acting insulin therapy in the form of a powder that...

Democratizing the Genome with Crowdfunding Assistance

Physicians from Hippocrates to today live by the words “do no harm.” Yet in giving prescription drugs to a patient to help alleviate a...

Energy Update: The Fukushima Daiichi Disaster Will Not Go Away

The last generation nuclear technology was so flawed that the after effects of a tsunami off the Japanese coast in 2011 are still being...

Space Update: The Pursuit of Cheap Spaceflight

I am getting pretty tired of reading about Elon Musk's latest achievements. How can the guy who founded Tesla with its Model S sedan...

Agriculture Update: Crops for Animals and Biofuel Equal Enough Calories to Feed 4 Billion People

We grow corn and feed it to cattle, pigs, chickens and fish. We grow wheat and do the same. If we stopped doing this...

Gizmos & Gadgets: Farm 432 – Raise Insects for Food and Profit

For some of you this story may make you squeamish but an industrial designer, Katharina Unger, has designed a home insect-incubator called Farm 432....

Politics and Technology – Lead by Example? Not in Washington, DC

The single largest carbon emitter in the capital city of the United States is the Capitol Power Plant located a scant 3.2 kilometers (2...

Energy Update: Genetically Modified Plants and Biofuel

One of the challenges of producing cellulosic ethanol comes from trying to break down the biomass into the sugars and starches that ultimately can...

Headlines at 21st Century Tech for August 16, 2013

I cannot recall a summer like the one we have had here in Toronto. June was the wettest month I can ever remember until...

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