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The Great Reaction
Matthew Herper, 11.12.09, 08:20 PM EST
Forbes Magazine dated November 30, 2009
Nobel laureate K. Barry Sharpless hopes to make drug design as simple as building with Legos.
As a boy growing up in the late 1940s, K. Barry Sharpless fell under the spell of the coelacanth. The lungfish-like creature was believed [...]
Fuel from Thin Air
Joule Biotechnologies achieves conversion of CO2, sunlight into hydrocarbons – no biomass, no extraction, no kidding
In Hawaii, at the BIO Pacific Rim Summit, Joule Biotechnologies announced that it has achieved direct microbial conversion of CO2 into hydrocarbons via engineered organisms, powered by solar energy. Joule’s Helioculture process mixes sunlight and CO2 with [...]
Epicenter The Business of Tech Singularity University, Day One: Infinite, In All Directions
By TedGreenwald November 8, 2009 | 9:50 am | Categories: Future Shock
Singularity University faculty and administration: Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, and Kurzweil front and center
A security guard checks my driver’s license as I drive into the entrance to Moffet Field, a disused naval [...]
Segway creator unveils his next act
Inventor Dean Kamen wants to put entrepreneurs to work bringing water and electricity to the world’s poor.
By Erick Schonfeld, Business 2.0 Magazine editor-at-large
February 16, 2006: 2:06 PM EST
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San Francisco (Business 2.0) – Dean Kamen, the engineer who invented the Segway, is puzzling over [...]