Links for 08-12-2007
Origami shuriken, Hindu gods get court summons, pebble-bed nuclear reactors, first X-Prize entrant signs up …
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1 – How to Fold an Origami Star (Shuriken)
“You don’t have to go to a weapons store to have your very own “ninja star” (also called a shuken or shuriken). You can make one or several out of paper as a cheaper and safer alternative.” Office wars are go!
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2 – Hindu gods get summons from court
“The gods have been asked to appear before the court on Tuesday, after the judge said that letters addressed to them had gone unanswered.” WTFLOL!
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3 – The Next Atomic Age: Can Safe Nuclear Power Work for America?
“The design calls for a core filled with about 360,000 of these fuel pebbles–”kernels” of uranium oxide wrapped in two layers of silicon carbide and one layer of pyrolytic carbon, and embedded in a graphite shell.”
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4 – Google Lunar X-Prize Gets First Official Entrant
“Odyssey Moon, a startup based on the Isle of Man, and run by Carl Sagan mentee, Bob Richards and the CFO of satellite-provider Inmarsat, Ramin Khadem, plans to land a rover on the moon within the next seven years.”
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5 – California Plans for a $750 Million Biotech Bank
“California’s biotech bank will presumably not be as Scrooge-like as private investors. It has one catch: Companies must be located in California. But more than one-quarter of the nation’s biotech businesses are already in the Golden State.”
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6 – Focus on Actions to Get More Done in Less Time
“If you have a project to do, it can sometimes seem overwhelming. Instead, focus on just one action within the project. What’s the next thing you can do to move this project forward?”
