Hawking, beer and coffee, tidal power, arms race 2.0…

• 1 – Hawking Says Humans Must Colonize Space
  Genius physicist joins my campaign to get the human race off-planet. Well, he said it off his own back really, but I’m sure he’d support me in one of my futurist rants at the pub. Go Steve! Big up yo’self.
  (tags: futurism Mars Moon colonise exploration race human Hawking Stephen space)
• 2 – Could coffee protect your liver against alcohol?
  Well, I certainly hope so…
  (tags: coffee health medicine cancer prostate booze alcohol beer)
• 3 – Beer protects your prostate
  …but beer isn’t all bad (although the dosage size wouldn’t go down well with your doctor).
  (tags: health medicine cancer prostate booze alcohol beer)
• 4 – Pamela Goes to Space to Explore Dark Matter and Antimatter
  No, not Tommy Lee’s pneumatic missus – it’s another satellite with a silly name.
  (tags: launch energy matter dark physics cosmology science Pamela satellite space)
• 5 – Compact generator could reduce cost of tidal power generation
  Wh00t! Another local project, too.
  (tags: renewable efficiency green ecology turbines power tidal generation energy)
• 6 – Seeing with Sound – The vOICe
  A new approach to helping the blind to see.
  (tags: futurism cybernetic audio perception data cortex visual seeing blindness technology)
• 7 – Spaceport Singapore: One-Stop Shopping for the Future Space Tourist
  All donations toward my first jag into space very gladly received; Paypal, cheques or used banknotes, whatever you have.
  (tags: futurism flight suborbital spaceport authority aviation Adventures Singapore tourism space)
• 8 – Mars rover Spirit finds metallic meteorites
  Doesn’t seem to be a particularly exciting discovery, but the boffins seem fairly pleased about it anyway. Go figure.
  (tags: science discovery meteorite iron exploration Spirit rover Martian Mars space)
• 9 – Smart paper may put lightweight spies in the skies
  Electroactive paper flexes in electrical fields – unsurprisingly, it’s the military apps that get thought of first. After all, that’s where the big research grants come from these days. Sigh.
  (tags: futurism robots dragonfly paper electroactive EAPap technology surveillance science)
• 10 – TRACE – The Transition Region and Coronal Explorer
  This satellite has being taking pictures of the Sun since 1998, and some of them are very beautiful indeed; go take a look. Link snapped from MetaFilter.
  (tags: science astronomy pictures corona TRACE images sun solar satellite space)
• 11 – Labs in Northern California, New Mexico competing to build new nuclear bomb
  Great, just what we need, another bloody arms race.
  (tags: idiocy warheads arms weapon bomb nuclear military US)
• 12 – Researchers teach computers to perceive three dimensions in 2-D images
  Breakthrough in computer object-recognition programming
  (tags: context perception recognition object 3D software technology computer)
• 13 – bloggers_anonymous: The “Mock 10″ Signs of Blog Addiction
  Only displaying a few of these so far, thankfully. I really think I should make a full post out of this link…
  (tags: humour posts symptoms addiction blogs blogging blog)
• 14 – Robert J. Sawyer Interview
  Jose at Memetherapy interviews Canadian SF supremo. I’m not sure he really needs me directing traffic to him, after getting BoingBoinged for the Rucker interview today…
  (tags: Canadian literature interview writing books scifi sf fiction science Sawyer Robert)
• 15 – Nuclear Energy: Not a Climate Change Solution?
  You can rely on Worldchanging to have the real data on anything ecological – here they debunk the notion that nuclear power would reduce carbon emissions.
  (tags: environment ecology co2 emissions dioxide carbon uranium stations energy power nuclear future)
• 16 – Podcasting with Bruce Sterling, Part 2
  It’s a podcast. It’s with Bruce Sterling. It’s the second (and final) part. Yes.
  (tags: books writing visionary futurism scifi SF fiction science Sterling Bruce interview podcast)