Links for 04-12-2007
Drug-delivery implants, nations as brands, the IT carbon footprint, The Times on sf again …
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1 – Delivering Drugs with MEMS
“The first product, a device for delivering an anti-osteoporosis drug automatically, could allow patients to replace 500 daily injections with a single outpatient implant procedure.”
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2 – When nations are brands, war is bad PR
“It’s a wonder the third rhetorical question wasn’t “Haven’t you ever wondered why Ian Curtis committed suicide?” Welcome to the thin ice, topsy-turvy world of national rebranding.” Well worth a read, this.
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3 – IT industry urged to address growing carbon footprint
“The information and communication technology (ICT) sector in the UK has a carbon footprint as big as the aviation industry, according to a report released today.”
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4 – First Stars Were Huge and Dark
“The first stars to form in the universe may not have shone like those today, but instead may have been invisible “dark stars” powered by the annihilation of dark matter [...] they would have been gargantuan.”
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5 – Humanity’s Five Biggest Moral Challenges (David Louis Edelman’s Blog)
“The definition I’m favoring these days goes something like this: morality means making decisions that benefit the most number of people in the long run, and by extension the human race as a whole.”
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6 – Why don’t we love science fiction? – Times Online
“In a science-fiction story, there may be a terrible evil abroad, and it may get sorted out, but the world is f***ed up for ever. This is realism.” Aldiss again.
