It can mount a defense when under siege, and warn its neighbors of trouble on the way.
and they need to smell danger. And then they need to be able to integrate all of this very dynamic and changing information.
escaping from attack, finding family. But plants are rooted, sessile organisms. While they can grow toward the sun,
First off, and at the risk of offending some of my closest friends, I think the term plant neurobiology is as ridiculous as say, human floral biology.
which means that the interior air pressure can be adjusted to more comfortable levels without the risk of damaging the fuselage.
The Shutup Gun When you aim the Speechjammer at someone, it records that person s voice and plays it back to him with a delay of a few hundred milliseconds.
It s different from conventional weapons such as samurai swords,#Kurihara says. We hope it will build a more peaceful world.#
The rationale is that the more we shield children from potential scrapes and sprained ankles,
the more unprepared they ll be for real risk as adults, and the less aware they ll be of their surroundings.
Sleep Mining Wearing a small sensor on your head, at home, while you sleep, could be the key to diagnosing diseases early
and assessing traumatic brain injury in soldiers. Currently, Low is working on a newer version of the device,
and the chemicals used in fire extinguishers can be toxic (halons, the most effective chemical fire suppressant, create holes in the ozone layer.
So the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the Pentagon has developed a hand-held wand that snuffs out fires, without chemicals.
now supplies food to grocery stores and the U s. military. Your local Costco or Wegmans may sell perfectly cooked sous vide lamb shanks, osso buco or turkey roulade.
The home landscaping company Toro already has a line of consumer-grade moisture sensors that turn on the sprinkler system
but Sanjay Sarma, of the Field Intelligence Lab at M. I t.,is working to produce tiny,
Will this strengthen our natural shielding#r weaken it? No one can say. Using data from Voyager,
IBEX program scientist at NASA Headquarters. Interstellar space just beyond the edge of the solar system is unexplored mostly territory.
#emphasis mine The IBEX data fit in nicely with recent results from Voyager. Voyager 1 and 2 are near the edge of the solar system
that raise heart disease risk. Although no one can say the nation s rising obesity rate is to blame for the prevalence of autism,
who has investigated risk factors for autism in the past. But Gardener warns that she believes researchers are far away from understanding
when faced with a fungal threat, bees bring in significantly more propolis#45 percent more, on average.
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and particles of food, held together with electrostatic forces instead of something less appetizing like glue.
The dangers of overusing pesticides should have motivated a wide spread scaling back of their use.
either by the humanitarian outcry of well meaning but sometimes misguided animal lovers, by the threat implicit to traditional farming methods,
it s also meant the onset of superbugs. According to the National Academy of Sciences roughly 70 percent of the antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs used in the U s. are fed to farm animals
Companies can agree to settle their disputes in ways other than traditional national or regional court systems.
what role do external forces play on it s development? This will be a project exponentially more complicated than the human genome project,
#The report said the industry had stepped up its fight against anti-tobacco policies, launching legal challenges and seeking to delay
Smoking causes lung cancer as well as several other chronic pulmonary diseases and is a major risk factor in heart disease, the world s number one killer.
however, that the battle was far from over and urged more countries to fight the industry.
The average American throws away 33 pounds of food each month#about $40 worth#according to the Natural resources Defense Council,
when there were hunger riots around the world, there was enough food to feed people, it was just too expensive.#
It told the agency that glyphosate is considered to be a herbicide with low risk for weed resistance.#
#Planting trees in the Mongolian Desert to fight dangerous dust storms in Seoul A nomadic family outside their ger (yurt) in the Gobi desert near Choir, Mongolia.
For his work, he has been named the first Sustainable Land Management Champion#by the United nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
and sugar-free varieties are associated with a variety of elevated health risks. Water is essential to human life.
And Amazon and big-box stores like Costco are established well sources of savings if there are packaged items you know you re going to use again and again.
published Wednesday in a journal of the Royal Society of London (Proceedings B), gives yet more evidence that India is a hotbed of amphibian life with habitats worth protecting against the country s industry-heavy
The same sensitivity to climate and water quality that makes them perfect environmental barometers also puts them at the greatest risk
and onion and oxtail soup packets, make this a culinary onslaught of epic proportion. Perfect complement:
Organic Certification At Risk The Hornell Evening Tribune explains what concerns Once again s communications manager Gael Orr:
Dozens, or Hundreds, of Farms Could Be in Jeopardy The risks facing Once again are larger than one company.
along with your risk for liver failure, obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Sugar and other sweeteners are, in fact,
Economists to the rescue Lustig, a medical doctor in UCSF s Department of Pediatrics, compares added sugar to tobacco
This study highlights the need for air pollution impacts on crops to be taken more seriously as a threat to food security;
Taking the ipads home results in all kinds of risks: damage, theft, hacking, misuse. Schools would have to be ready to buy a lot of spare units.
Google s self-driving car project has racked already up over 200,000 driverless miles on highways. 6.)Ground-Based Delivery Drones Before we have sold driverless passenger cars in any sizable quantities
we will see ground-based delivery drones hauling point-to-point cargo. Better to practice without passengers onboard to perfect the technology.
Long Range Acoustic devices (LRAD) are being used as loud hailers to emit warning signals. Audio drones, however, have far more potential in the marketing and entertainment fields.
Delivery Drones-Can you imagine a flying drone with UPS or Fedex on its side? Thinking beyond traditional delivery systems, flying drones could be used to deliver food, packages, water,
change out the batteries in your home, remove trash and sewage, and even vacuum the leaves from your front lawn.
) Password Eliminator Technology Even with all our sophisticated security technology being built-in to computer platforms,
our best defense against hackers and identity theft remains the lowly password and our ability to remember it
it might join the list of possible forces behind colony collapse disorder. Parasitic fly larva emerging from a dead bee s neck.
Meet the Guerilla Grafters What makes them guerrillas is the fact that this grafting is illegal.
As the group s Tara Hui explains, people think of fruit trees as kind of a nuisance.##That s both because of the mess they might create in the form of rotten fruit
The Guerrilla Grafters address the first two problems by making sure each grafted tree has a steward#who can monitor
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#Year in Review: Top 10 Articles on Futuristspeaker. com Futurist Thomas Frey: The sixth law of the future states, The unknowability#of the future is
And we won t find a solution for war. But there is great value in the struggle.
Our greatest achievements will come from these struggles. We can learn much about where we ve come from
and for this reason I d like to give you a quick overview of the top articles in 2011 on Futuristspeaker. com, based on popularity.
and the situation was complicated far too for normal emergency rescue crews, she somehow thought of the Davinci Institute.
the dangers are quite obvious, and even more apparent is our poor understanding of the demands being placed on us individually,
I can standbrute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use.
#Oscar wilde I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use.
thanks to Qatar s dominance in global IT for the past few decades, have taken the place of the primitive bitcoin, offering superior security and anonymity, quick transfers and very low transaction fees.
and unremarkablea two-mile stretch of road at the mouth of Boulder Canyon that served as one of several mining-supply depots following the 1859 Colorado gold rush.
In 1949, fearful of a Soviet nuclear attack, President Harry Truman issued an order to stop the clustering of major buildings in Washington,
In 1952, the federal government made greater Boulder the site of Rocky Flats, a 27-building nuclear weapons manufacturing facility.
After the Department of defense ordered sophisticated rocket pointing controls from CU s labs, researchers, including Mercure,
work out the kinks at low risk, and then take the successes to a more general market in Denver and beyond.#
His cofounders decided to put company headquarters in Thousand Oaks California, but Caruthers kept a lab in Boulder.
Veterans of his department, of Amgen, and of the university s biology departments would go on to start biotech firms,
#oeit s a dual-edged sword,#says Anson.##oeit s harder for me to run my plant,
or risk being left short. One or the other will give shortly#t ll either be price or availability.
It s surmounted by a spinning laser turret and knobbed with cameras, radar, antennas, and G. P. S. It looks a little like an ice-cream truck, lightly weaponized for inner-city work.
and anticipate danger, gauge distance, direction, pace, and momentum. Americans drive nearly three trillion miles a year,
He went on to build robots that explored mines In virginia, guided visitors through the Smithsonian,
And though Congress had set a goal that a third of all ground combat vehicles be autonomous by 2015,
Every so often, Thrun recalls, military contractors, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, would roll out their latest prototype.#
When the gun went off, the bike sputtered forward, rolled three feet, and fell over.#
#oeput too much intelligence into a car and it becomes creative, #Sebastian Thrun told me. The second Grand Challenge put these two approaches to the test.
A burly, mortar-headed ex-marine, Whittaker specialized in machines for remote and dangerous locations.
Whittaker approached the race as a military operation, best won by overwhelming force. His team spent twenty-eight days laser-scanning the Mojave to create a computer model of its topography;
then they combined those scans with satellite data to help identify obstacles.##oepeople don t count those who died trying,
Whittaker the blustering field marshal. Carnegie mellon with its two military vehicles, Sandstorm and Highlander; Stanford with its puny Volkswagen Touareg, nicknamed Stanley.
It was an even match. Both teams used similar sensors and software, but Thrun and Montemerlo concentrated more heavily on machine learning.#
#oeit was our secret weapon, #Thrun told me. Rather than program the car with models of the rocks
It s part of a sprawling campus built by Silicon graphics in the early nineties and repurposed by Google, the conquering army, a decade later.
Smurfs,#oestar Wars#toys, Rube Goldberg devices. The next things you notice are the desks: row after row after row,
At the gourmet cafeterias that dot the campus, signs warn against#oetailgaters##orporate spies who might slink in behind an employee before the door swings shut.
#oeall of us were in denial that this could be done.##Then, in February of 2008, Levandowski got a call from a producer of#oeprototype This!#
Would he be interested in building a self-driving pizza delivery car? Within five weeks, he and a team of fellow Berkeley graduates and other engineers had re
And it forces you to learn new words to think new thoughts, to keep going. To discover that reading per se is pleasurable.
and your predicament, give you weapons, give you armour: real things you can take back into your prison.
Skills and knowledge and tools you can use to escape for real. As JRR Tolkien reminded us,
the only people who inveigh against escape are jailers. Another way to destroy a child s love of reading,
and give them weapons and give them armour and pass on whatever wisdom we have gleaned from our short stay on this green world we have an obligation not to preach, not to lecture,
not to force predigested morals and messages down our readers throats like adult birds feeding their babies pre-masticated maggots;
#That justification has caused an uproar among some consumer protection and environmental groups. They say that representing Evolva s laboratory-grown flavoring as something similar to vanilla extract from an orchid plant is deceptive,
which forced the artists there to seek a new way to power their flamethrowers, is the origin story of a company that now produces
and during WORLD WAR II, a million vehicles utilized the technology. But after the war, it more or less vanished from the planet, for reasons unknown.
Until Mason needed a way to power his flamethrowers, that is. All Power Labs has taken gasification
and combined it with two of the Bay Area s most valuable commodities#a rich maker culture
Feed a bunch of walnut shells or wood chips into these $27 000 machines and you get fully clean energy at less than 10 cents a kilowatt hour, a fraction of
During a recent visit to the company s headquarters, it had orders pending from Ecuador, the Dominican republic, Haiti, Thailand, Nicaragua, Mexico,
and limitless ambition sees itself as the only company willing to take big risks like this.#
right in front of the windshield, is a low-profile heads-up display. manual, it reads, in sober sans serif font, white on black.
#Levandowski works at Google s headquarters in Mountain view, California. He s the business lead of Google s self-driving-car project, an initiative that the company has been developing for the better part of a decade.
Commuters in Silicon valley report seeing one of the cars#asily identifiable by a spinning turret mounted on the roof#n average of once an hour.
At a ceremony at Google headquarters last year, where Governor Jerry brown signed California s self-driving-car bill into law, Google cofounder Sergey Brin said#oeyou
Google s crew of young testers have been trained in extreme driving techniques#ncluding emergency braking, high-speed lane changes,
A self-driving car near Google s headquarters rear-ended another Prius with enough force to push it forward
The attack came from Chrysler, the smallest of Detroit s Big Three automakers, in the form of a television commercial for the new Dodge Charger.
His company, Velodyne, makes a unit that packs 64 lasers in a turret that typically rotates at 600 rpm,
Hall confirms that a major automaker recently summoned him to its headquarters to ask whether he could make a next-generation lidar#ruggedized, standardized automotive component.
The company wanted a design that it could hide (perhaps behind the windshield) that would wholesale for no more than $1, 000,
#The other fight is the legal one. It too is filled with catch-22 s. Hall described a Powerpoint presentation containing the automaker s analysis of self-driving-car technology.#
But that doesn t mean the development of potentially lifesaving technology should be halted.##oethere wasn t legal protection for the Wright brothers
when they made that first plane, #he says.##oethey made them, they went out there,
drafting resulted in average fuel savings of 10 to 15 percent#ut that, too, is seen as the tip of the iceberg.
if they sense imminent danger, either by steering back onto the roadway or braking in anticipation of a crash.
returning the consequent weight savings as even better mileage. The EPA has a new mileage mandate for car manufacturers:
and oversight to guard against situations like a deer running into the road; the car must be able to hand back control with no warning.
Because of the limited research into e-cigarette use, their risks and benefits remain uncertain and subject to widespread debate.
Submissions ranged from self-filling water bottles, to extreme dehumidification, to a large-scale water sources for greenhouse drip irrigation, to emergency water for lifeboats, to self-filling canteens for the military,
to continually generate water even in emergency situations. It will generate between 1-3 Gallons Water/day depending on the humidity conditions and sun conditions.
and every soldier, sailor, and construction worker to have within arm s reach at any given moment?
but it s close enough that the device has been under consideration for military use for several years now.
all while subjecting the passenger to G-forces comparable to that of a leisurely ride on the highway
which nuclear power plants produce energy) is much easier to control than nuclear fusion (the process by which the sun burns, and nuclear weapons work).
self-made billionaire who has led the design of revolutionary cars and rockets and he needs no introduction.
so he worked for smaller firms#here an autonomous military land vehicle, there a mower for golf course greens.
working nights at an Air force Exchange Service Burger king as he built his book. In the late 1980s, there was a spontaneous move to Lincoln,
Those details range from minimizing g-forces around curves (Hyperloop anticipates 0. 5gs of lateral force;
especially without a bathroom) to keeping terrorists and saboteurs from soft targets that, when breached, create onrushing air tantamount to an onrushing train.
Both believe evacuated-tube transport is a battle worth fighting. They told each other as much in a meeting three weeks before the Hyperloop announcement.
Calif. headquarters, the man from Mead walked among rockets in assembly, guys in Air Jordans working on cargo pods
Even though the vast majority of drone use today is government and military, one of the big emerging markets will be agriculture.
and tracking+Weed levels Drone Startups With military use of drones beginning to level off, the industry itself is searching for other options,
and 30 minutes flight range. 5.)AIMQ by DMZ Aerial (dmzaerial. com) DMZ Aerial s Aerial Intelligence Modified Quadcopter,
Phase 2#Protection Drones Some companies are already working on Phase 2 drones capable of proactively protecting the crops from bugs, birds, disease,
protection drones may even be able to compensate for extreme weather conditions by applying warm foam during freezing conditions
Because of the possible dangers, their use will be restricted highly, at least for the most powerful ones. However
The container s efficiency has proven to be an irresistible economic force. Last year the world s container ports moved 560 million 20-foot containers#early 1. 5 billion tons of cargo altogether.
and ships, freight transportation was too unpredictable for manufacturers to take the risk that supplies from faraway places would arrive on time,
On April 26, 1956, Mclean s first container ship#military-surplus WWII tanker#ailed from Newark to Houston loaded with containers custom-built for his company, Pan-Atlantic.
filled with whiskey headed to the U s. and guns on their way to Europe. Liquor bottles were traditionally a target for light-fingered longshoremen
nearly every berth was filled with U s. military cargo destined for the 250,000 American soldiers stationed in West germany.
Reliable, cheap transport made possible an explosion in global commerce. That, in turn, had more far-reaching consequences.
an earthquake, a terror attack, or a labor strike in southern California.##oeif something bad happens in L a. including Long beach,
Auto plants in California, accustomed to#oejust in time#deliveries of parts from Japan, found themselves chartering planes to bring in parts they otherwise would have had shipped, at a cost of $600 per car.
essentially paying for space and equipment they re not using just in case of an emergency.##oethere s an incentive to work at maximum capacity,
The dangers of skateboarding! Looks like they re going to need a bigger helmet!..Pegasus does exist!..
Putin going down for the count, but who s counting?..Eye forest, yet most of us can t see the forest for the trees!..
It just freekin wheelchair with a flamethrower. Why do you ask?..Swimming with the jellyfish, similar to running with the bulls!..
#oethat horizontal delivery of micrornas via typical dietary ingestion is neither a robust nor a frequent mechanism.#
The myth was started by two feuding paleontologists during the Bone Wars, 130 years ago. SOURCE:
He goes on to say that an active lifestyle means half the risk of dementia
and half the risk of cognitive impairment for these older adults. 2. Take Deep Breaths.
Cultivate Your Emotional Intelligence. It s not enough to have a high IQ. High IQ is just potential.
And one of the best ways to make sure that you make good use of your IQ is by developing your emotional intelligence.
For many years a lot of emphasis was placed on certain aspects of intelligence, such as the following: Logical reasoning;
and particularly with the publication of Daniel Goleman s book,#oeemotional Intelligence#,it has become clear that a lot of people waste their potential by thinking,
That is, emotional intelligence is being recognized as a meta-ability which will allow you to take full advantage of your other skills and talents.
easier-to-use alternatives chief among them the blockbuster game Minecraft, from a game developer with no Metaverse-making pretensions.
and security interacting through anonymous avatars. Indeed, some academics believe using Second life might even help improve motor ability for people with Parkinson s.)
Using a fleet of surveillance drones, equipped with special infrared cameras, fires can be spotted during the earliest moments of a containment window,
signaling a fleet of extinguisher drones to douse the blaze before anything serious happens. Drones specifically designed for extinguishing forest fires have the potential to eliminate virtually 100%of the devastating fires that blanket newspaper headlines every summer.
930,000 Rehabilitation expenses included costs incurred by USFS emergency rehabilitation programs, Denver water, US Geological Survey (USGS) mapping,
I was an engineer working as part of an IBM team to build a mobile satellite command and control center for monitoring missile launches from space.
This contract was part of Reagan s#oestar Wars#missile defense system. Whenever a missile was launched, the heat plume coming out of the back of the rocket produces a distinct heat signature instantly detectable by satellites tens of thousands of miles away with infrared sensors.
The technology we were using over 25 years ago could instantly detect missile launches anywhere on earth, within seconds of the launch.
I can only assume today s technology is hundreds of times more precise than anything we were working with back then. 2007 NASA image of forest fires in California The above photo was infrared taken with thermal imaging sensors on NASA s Ikhana unmanned research
Thermal image of Boston Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in a boat Massachusetts State Police released video taken of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev s
and instantly determining the danger level is well within our grasp. The#oecan-we-should-we#debate Certainly not all fires are bad.
As we add entire new toolsets to our fire suppression arsenal, these decisions become far more difficult.
Illustration of a fire extinguisher drone Final Thoughts I began this line of thinking looking for a solution to the wildfires we re currently experiencing here in my home state of Colorado.
Surveillance drones will likely be separate from fire-suppression drones. Extinguishing a fire under several layers of tree canopy will also be a challenge.
Today s cities are at risk from a different set of issues. If trends in urbanisation continue at their current rates
Terreform s plans for a vast site covering Brooklyn s Navy yard shows a densely interwoven fertile fabric of elevated walkways,
In a village where many children were already at risk of suffering from kwashiorkor, a form of malnutrition caused by protein deficiency in the diet,
and harsher environmental conditions we will have to battle with, and it becomes vividly clear that our current food production systems will be taken by storm very soon.
And to cap it all the risk that insects may transmit zoonotic infections may well be less significant than the very real risk posed by cattle, pig and poultry, from
While it s true that Sub-saharan africa as a whole still leads the world in poverty and food insecurity rates,
I could understand from the ground up the new forces at work in rural Africa and in farming and agribusiness in the region.
attempting to foment rebellion: Almost every African family he met owned a plot of farmland#radically different situation than in Latin america,
At urban markets, legions of#oemarket women#buy food wholesale and then peddle it retail, some amassing tidy fortunes through their efforts.
which were accomplished using simple technologies to combat desertification. He describes such efforts by farmers in parched Niger as#oethe biggest environmental transformation in Africa.#
and can do it again After WORLD WAR II, a starving Europe, its farms ruined by the most destructive conflict in human history,
leaned heavily on growers south of the Sahara. Wheat from Kenya, maize from Zimbabwe, and fruits and vegetables from western and southern Africa adorned European tables.
yet parts of western and northern Kenya face a chronic struggle for food. What Africa needs most#nd is increasingly getting,
in the central part of the country, their struggle to provide enough food was heart-wrenching.
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