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James Cameron: Before Avatar … a curious boy
James Cameron’s big-budget (and even bigger-grossing) films create unreal worlds all their own. In this personal talk, he reveals his childhood fascination with the fantastic — from reading science fiction to deep-sea diving — and how it ultimately drove the success of his blockbuster hits “Aliens,” “The Terminator,” “Titanic” and “Avatar.”
The Bloom Box
Large corporations have been testing a new device that can generate power on the spot, without being connected to the electric grid. Will we have one in every home someday?
(via Engadget)
Ars Technica >> Quantum gravity and space's informational entropy
“Holography, and anti de Sitter space/conformal field theory are two ways of describing the bending of space and the entropy associated with it. The two models are very closely related to each other.”
Ars Technica >> Photosynthesis uses quantum interactions to harvest light
“By some measures, the photosynthetic process is one of the more efficient energy transactions in nature. Scientists have taken an interest in figuring out how it works at the atomic level, as some research had suggested that quantum mechanics might be at work when the system was examined at low temperatures.”
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’, but ‘That’s funny…’
- Isaac Asimov (via ringman)
Ars Techica » Nerve cells have an energy efficiency an engineer would love
“Despite accounting for very little of our body mass, the human brain burns through 20 percent of our energy budget. But researchers have now probed the dynamics of a nerve impulse as it travels down an axon, and determined that the process burns through a surprisingly small amount of energy—only 1.3 times the theoretical minimum.”
By John Timmer
Study: free markets superior to patent monopolies
“Our economic system is based on the expectation that markets can provide optimal solutions more efficiently than monopolies, with one glaring exception: patents, which are structured in a “winner takes all” manner. A study appearing in today’s edition of Science suggests that markets might work here, too.”
Richard Dawkins narrates the article The Lava Lizard’s Tale which was written immediately after The Ancestor’s Tale was completed.
Transcipt can be read on richarddawkins.net
“This article was written while Richard Dawkins was on an earlier trip to Galapagos, and the footage seen here was shot on a later trip.”
On the 30th of September 2007, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens sat down for a first-of-its-kind, unmoderated 2-hour discussion.
Hour 2 of 2
On the 30th of September 2007, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens sat down for a first-of-its-kind, unmoderated 2-hour discussion.
Hour 1 of 2
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