To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
— Thomas Edison
February 16, 2012
The argument that cleaner energy sources are needed to stop global warming isn’t a new one, but what exactly will it actually take to right the climate change ship and how long will that take? Environmental Research Letters published a paper today by our CEO, Nathan Myhrvold and Stanford’s Ken Caldeira that explores those questions with a holistic new approach.
September 23, 2011
I met Jeremy Bornstein a decade ago when I used to train in Aikido. This is a video of him throwing me around. It turns out I’m really good at falling. 3ric Johanson filmed this with our Phantom v.12 camera at the Hackers conference. The whole thing happens in about 1 second, but here it [...]
September 13, 2011
Some mosquitoes are unfortunately highly anthropophilic, meaning they seek out humans for their blood meals rather than other animals. But how do these insects find us in the first place? How do they distinguish between a human and a shrub? There is evidence that odor may have something to do with it.
August 18, 2011
It’s one thing to have a powerful supercomputer cluster, it’s quite another thing to use it at its full potential. For anyone who has ever chopped wood, you know that slight changes in one’s stance or grip can dramatically increase the amount force the axe can delivered. Similarly, when dealing with a multi-core computer.
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