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Mar 14, 20201 min read
Laser Weapons
USS Ponce (LPD-15) Photo Credit Wikipedia The Economist March 7th, 2020 pp71-72 Science & Technology, Military Technology, “The rise of...
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Mar 3, 20202 min read
FAANG Coming to Town. Good, Bad but not Ugly
Bloomberg Businessweek March 2, 2020 pp14-17 “Who Pays to Make Big Tech Green?” “Companies like Google have leverage over local...
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Feb 23, 20202 min read
"Hey look, standing with one leg!" cries Emma Larson.
Scientific American March 2020 pp46-53. Antisense Therapy “Finally Making Sense” “A long-disdained therapy that target RNA is achieving...
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Feb 20, 20202 min read
1,000,000 Realtors and Declining? Online Companies Poised to Disrupt, Save Buyers and Sellers $
The Economist February 15, 2020 pp61-63 Finance & Economics. Real Estate in America. “Tearing down the house”. Dallas, Los Angeles and...
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Feb 16, 20202 min read
Sustainable Growth
Photo Credit Wikipedia The New Yorker February 10, 2020 pp24-27 Dept of Finance “Steady State” “Can we have prosperity without economic...
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Feb 15, 20202 min read
Executive Headhunting 2020
The Economist February 8th, 2020 pp58-60 Briefing Headhunters. “Take me to a leader”. “The industry tasked with finding bosses is more...
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Feb 10, 20201 min read
TED^X Youth@Austin FTC Robotics Demonstration
Guiding a robot to build with Legos. See https://tedxyouthaustin.com for details for the entire Rebuild 2020 meeting. The lecture...
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Feb 8, 20201 min read
Tesla leaps ahead
The Economist February 1st, 2020 pp55 Electric Vehicles “Car Stock Racing”. “Tesla is proving itself as a carmaker, is its tech-like...
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Feb 6, 20201 min read
Facebook Funds An Oversight Board. Will Objectively Considered Blocked Content.
The Economist February 1st, 2020 pp57 Online Governance “A Court of Public Opinions”. “Facebook prepares to hand decisions about...
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Feb 5, 20202 min read
Mental Maps of Physical and Social Space
Scientific American February 2020 pp31-35 Neuroscience “The Brain’s Social Road Maps”. “Neural circuits that track our whereabouts in...
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Feb 4, 20201 min read
Fresh Fingerprints Don't Lie!
The Economist February 1st, 2020 pp69 Forensic Science “Whendunnit?” “Fingerprints can now be dated to within a day of when they were...
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Feb 1, 20201 min read
Sports Betting. Machine Algorithms Instanteously Shore-Up Bookies Odds/Lines
Bloomberg Businessweek January 27, 2020 pp48-50 “How I Won a Whopping $63.50 Betting on Sports” “The handicapping service Jambos is...
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Jan 27, 20204 min read
Spending Other People's Money. Venture Capital Past, Present and Future Role
The IPHONE and its APPs are a cornerstone of the 4th Industrial Revolution enabling innovative start-ups, and Venture Capitalists. The...
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Jan 24, 20201 min read
Forever 21 Out of Chapter 11 February 2020?
Bloomberg Businessweek January 20, 2020 pp46-51 reports “Forever Is a Long Time”. “The singular practices and spectacular flameout of...
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Jan 20, 20201 min read
Affordable Housing. Tech needs it, can they lead stakeholders to significant remedies?
Bloomberg Businessweek January 20, 2020 pp16-18 by Jeff Muskus and David Rocks “A Housing Start for Microsoft” “A booming economy has led...
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Jan 17, 20201 min read
Home is Best ! The Economist Reports "Prescribing Tablets"
Vlogging The Economist reports Finland “Prescribing Tablets” The Economist January 11th, 2020. pp 44. “Finns turn to technology to help...
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Jan 14, 20201 min read
TEDxYouth@Austin "REBUILD" Event Sunday February 9,1-5:30 Kids Free, Educators $15, Adults $50
Details see https://www.tedxyouthaustin.com
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Jan 14, 20201 min read
I Don't Feel Your Pain or Mine !
The New Yorker Reports-Dept of Science “World Without Pain” “Does hurting make us human?” The New Yorker January 13, 2020 pp18-24...
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Jan 10, 20201 min read
Less Smoking, Better -Detection, -Treatments& Personalized Medicine Lower Cancer Deaths
WSJ Brianna Abbott reports “U.S. Cancer Death Rate Drops by Largest Amount on Record” Online Updated January 8, 2020 Cancer death rates...
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Dec 28, 20192 min read
Top 10 Emerging Technologies from "Scientific America"
An expert group assembled by Scientific American (SA) identified their top 10 emerging technologies based on: potential major benefit,...
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