Tag: technology

Go Read
September 8, 2015 0

Go Read

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Tweet John Chait in New York Magazine, has a thumb sucker balancing between glory and despair about the upcoming Paris conference For human to wean ourselves off carbon-emitting fossil fuel, we will have to use some combination of edict and invention — there is no other plausible way around it. The task before the world is best envisioned not as a singular event but as two distinct but interrelated revolutions, one in political willpower and the other in technological innovation. It has taken a long time for each to materialize, in part because the absence of one has compounded the difficulty of the other.

June 5, 2015 0

Where Did That Come From

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Tweet In the discussion about Fred Seitz that John threw the burning tree onto Willard pointed to an answer that Eli had not known.  Maybe John Mashey had figured it out but not Eli. So everybunny today older than about 12 years knows about the OISM petition, a mail campaign started in 2003 based on a Monckton class deceptive paper by Soon, Baliunas and Robinson, Robinson being Art Robinson, a chemist who used to work with Linus Pauling and went off to form a home schooling operation housed in a barn in Oregon called the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine

Meet Yangyang Another Humanoid Robot
May 7, 2015 0

Meet Yangyang Another Humanoid Robot

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Meet Yangyang Another Humanoid Robot A female humanoid robot " Yangyang ", named and modeled after her creator, has a variety of realistic facial expressions.  "Yangyang" wows visitors at Beijing’s Global Mobile Internet Conference. The robot is modeled on one of the researchers who helped develop the technology.

April 24, 2015 0

More from Andy Lacis

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Andy Lacis comments on Judith Curry’s visit to the hall of mirrors at And Then There is Physics , but in the spirit of the think, allow Eli to repost. —————————– Let me toss on here what I posted on ClimateEtc in regard to the recent (April 15, 2015) Science, Space, and Technology Committee Congressional Hearing: As was to be expected, Congressional hearings are more about political posturing rather than being a directed effort of objective information gathering