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Newly digitized archival film footage suggests that the Thwaites Glacier ice shelf in Antarctica could collapse sooner than expected... 
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Astigan Ltd is developing its A3 High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) with the goal of giving cartography a boost. The unmanned 149-kg (328 lb) solar-powered aircraft is designed to fly at an altitude of 67,000 ft for up to 90 days as a way to fill the gap between aerial and satellite surveys.
Joel Barker's insight:
This airplane fills the gap for information gathering, both private and public. The Brits are leading in this tehnology. JB
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IBM scientists have unveiled two crucial advances toward the creation of a practical quantum computer: an effective way to detect and correct quantum errors, and the design of a silicon chip that ...
Joel Barker's insight:
As we run out of territory for improvement with the present computing paradigm, this breakthrough points the way for exponential improvement in handling big data using quantum computing. So, the pathway continues to open up toward a new world of computing. JB
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Berkeley Lab scientists have designed a plastic that can be repeatedly recycled at the molecular level without loss of performance or quality.
Joel Barker's insight:
This is a big deal! Up until now whenever plastic was recycled, it also devolved to a less useful plastic. What Berkley Labs has done is create a plastic that keeps its integrity and flexibility to morph into many kinds of plastic. All o f a sudden, all the plastic bottles disappear from the landscape because of their recycled value! JB
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A dizzying number of microbes call the human body home, and it turns out that science knows very little about most of them.
Joel Barker's insight:
Our body is clearly an unexplored continent. We are at the edges of that continent right now. What wonders and terrors will we discover? JB
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What’s the point of all that data, anyway? It’s to make decisions.
Joel Barker's insight:
We are heading into a new age, the age of data analysis at a scale never before done by human beings. IBM is leading the way with Watson, an interface that is practical. What I know from my work in soft knowledge is that "hard" numbers don't tell everything and so we will also have to develop our soft knowledge skills to protect from being "enumerated." JB
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Faster than we thought. I read that again and again about glacier loss. JB