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Providing Global Energy Needs
Derek Abbott says Australia alone could solve the world’s current and future energy needs using solar thermal and liquid hydrogen. Saul Griffith says, practically speaking this is not feasible … more →
The Emergent Fool
Providing Global Energy Needs
wrote 5 months ago: Derek Abbott says Australia alone could solve the world’s current and future energy needs usin … more →
Equity Micro-Investing
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wrote 5 months ago: I’ve been having a serious discussion with two colleagues of mine about closing the gap that e … more →
Reinventing Liberal Arts Education
wrote 7 months ago: This was one of the most important and encouraging talks of this year’s TED conference: … more →
World's Most Ambitious Crowdsource
wrote 7 months ago: Everyone has heard about the Large Hadron Collider, arguably the most ambitious and complex engineer … more →
Foldit
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wrote 7 months ago: Has anyone played Foldit, the protein-folding game that is designed to advance the science? This Wi … more →
Peer-Review vs. Info Prizes and Markets
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wrote 8 months ago: I have been having a 140 character discussion with Ciarán Brewster (@macbruski) via twitter. And wh … more →
Cancer "Progress" Report
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wrote 8 months ago: Despite hundreds of billions of dollars appropriated for cancer research, as well as the efforts of … more →
You Can't Pick Winners at the Seed Stage
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wrote 8 months ago: [EDITED 05/08/2009: see here] The majority of people I’ve talked to like the idea of revolutio … more →
Alfred Hubler on Stabilizing CAS
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wrote 8 months ago: With his permission, I am posting an email thread between myself and Alfred Hubler. I had contacted … more →
Physics.Cancer.GOV
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wrote 8 months ago: Yesterday, from the Director of the National Cancer Institute, addressing one of the two largest can … more →
Revolutionizing Angel Funding
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wrote 8 months ago: [EDITED 05/08/2009: see here] We are finally ready to go semi-public with our revolutionary new ange … more →
If Rafe Were In Charge: Major Medical Edition
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wrote 8 months ago: Kevin started an interesting discussion that included a thoughtful proposal for the problem of major … more →
Mass Adoption of Electric Cars
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Leveraging Taxes for Civil Engagement
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wrote 8 months ago: Dan Ariely had an interesting idea on NPR’s Marketplace today. Here’s the audio of the … more →
Executive Compensation
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wrote 9 months ago: The main problem with executive pay is not that they are compensated too highly, but that there … more →
Decision Education Foundation
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wrote 9 months ago: On Saturday I attended a fundraiser poker tournament for non-profit organization called DEF (Decisio … more →
The Nature of Innovation
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wrote 9 months ago: One of my favorite talks of all time is Ken Robinson’s on how children are born naturally inno … more →
Tribes
wrote 9 months ago: Tribes are hot. Kevin has referred more than once to the famous Dunbar number for limits on optimal … more →
How to Change the Climate in 3 Years
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wrote 9 months ago: Oh, and re-grow the rainforrest, strengthen the social, political and economic climate, save endange … more →
