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- Steven Krivit continues to trash Andrea Rossi and his LENR technology. — [LINK]
- Interview with Adam Lashinsky — [VIDEO]
- Why some people are more innovative — [VIDEO]
- Forbes editor deciphers Steve Jobs’s Apple. — [VIDEO]
- Jason Ruspini rebuts Eric Zitzewitz on the regulation of political prediction markets. — [COMMENT]
- Eric Zitzewitz petitions the CFTC in favor of real-money prediction markets about politics. — [TEXT]
- Global warming is a big scam. — [LINK]
- A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors — [VIDEO]
- The Tragedy of the Commons — [VIDEO]
- Guy Kawasaki on Steve Jobs — [VIDEO]
- Inside Apple — [VIDEO]
- Mitt Romney’s taxes — [LINKS]
- A critique of Apple’s multimedia iBooks. — [LINK]
- Does Apple lack “generosity”? — [LINKS]
- Apple Education Push — [LINKS]
- Water Crystals — [DOCUMENT]
- Apple’s e-book software will allow publishers to make textbooks more interactive. — [LINKS + VIDEO]
- Alain Soral is France’s most dangerous intellectual… (dangerous for the French plutocrats, that is). — [VIDEO]
- Computers thru time — [CHART]
- NASA has finally understood the theorical basis of LENR (low-energy nuclear reactions). — [VIDEO]
Tag Archives: China
China’s ghost cities are still being developed. — [VIDEO]
Posted in Finance, The Global Economy
Tagged building, China, credit, economy, empty cities, Finance, funding, ghost cities, homes, housing, inflation, investing, investments, Mongolia, Ordos, real estate
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Jean-Michel Jarre’s 1986 huge concert in Houston, Texas + Jean-Michel Jarre’s 1988 epic concert in London’s Docklands, U.K. + Jean-Michel Jarre’s 1981 historic concerts in China. — [VIDEO]
Don’t miss the laser harp: Click on ‘More’ for the rest of the post (plenty of rare Jarre concert videos).
Posted in Films - Movies, Music
Tagged America, China, cities, City, city concert, city concerts, concert, concerts, Docklands, electro, electro music, electronic music, film, films, fireworks, Great Britain, Houston, Jean Michel Jarre, keyboard, keyboards, Laser, laser harp, laser harps, laser show, laser shows, London, Moscow, movie, movies, Music, noise, piano, Russia, sound, sounds, synthesizer, synthesizers, synthétiseur, synthétiseurs, Texas, United Kingdom, United States Of America, USA
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Globalization + Technology = Economic Progress — [VIDEO]
Peter Thiel (the sound is weak, beware):
Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged angel investors, Business, business angels, business startup, business startups, capital, China, Clarion, economic progress, economy, enterprise, enterprises, entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, FaceBook, Finance, global economy, globalization, investing, investors, mondialisation, Peter Thiel, philanthropist, Philanthropy, philantropists, René Girard, Silicon Alley, Silicon Valley, startup, startups, technology, USA, VCs, venture capital, venture capitalists, Wall Street
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China’s economy will surpass that of America in real terms in 2016. — [CHART]
Posted in The Global Economy
Tagged America, China, economy, global economy, United States Of America, US economy, USA
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Are citations in science journals reflecting serious, genuine and productive R&D? — [CHART]
However the report points out that a growing volume of research publications does not necessarily mean in increase in quality. Via Jason Ruspini.
Posted in Inventions & Innovations, Research, Science, The Global Economy
Tagged China, citations, development, Europe, European Union, France, Great Britain, innovations, inventions, journal, R&D, Research, Science, technologies, technology, United Kingdom, United States Of America, USA
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What China is doing with all that copper… — [LINK]
Copper in China.
“The hacking of Google that forced the search engine to withdraw from mainland China was orchestrated by a senior member of the communist politburo, according to classified information sent by US diplomats to Hillary Clinton’s state department in Washington. The leading politician became hostile to Google after he searched his own name and found articles criticising him personally, leaked cables from the US embassy in Beijing say.”
“The politician allegedly collaborated with a second member of the politburo in an attempt to force Google to drop a link from its Chinese-language search engine to its uncensored google.com version.”
Nathan Myhrvold on geo-engineering to combat global warming
Great interview on CNN — video. He also talks about “investing in inventions”.
Posted in Inventions & Innovations, Science
Tagged America, capital, China, climate change, climate science, Eart, Engineering, engineers, Freakonomics, geo-engineering, geoengineering, global warming, India, innovations, Intellectual Ventures, inventions, investing in innnovations, investing in inventions, Microsoft, Nathan Myhrvold, patent, patent troll, patent trolls, patents, Planet Earth, Science, Super Freakonomics, SuperFreakonomics, United States Of America, venture capital, venture capitalist, venture capitalists
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