Author Archives: Brad Hankins
Learn How to Learn
Information is the most fundamental of all components. The gaze from child to parent is dense with information. Beneath interstellar mechanics there is a wealth of information. The swing of an electron around it’s nucleus is defined by information. No … Continue reading
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Nanoparticle electrode for batteries could make large-scale power storage possible
The sun doesn’t always shine and the breeze doesn’t always blow and therein lie perhaps the biggest hurdles to making wind and solar power usable on a grand scale. If only there were an efficient, durable, high-power, rechargeable battery we … Continue reading
Wolly mammoth to be reconstructed from bone marrow
Scientists in Japan & Russia have found a frozen bone they think is preserved well enough to reconstruct and clone a mammoth via elephant implantation. http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-japan-russia-chance-clone-mammoth.html
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Water Changes Everything
Almost a billion people live without clean drinking water. We call this the water crisis. It’s a crisis because it only starts with water — but water affects everything in life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCHhwxvQqxg
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Income Inequality Across the UN
This is an infographic that demostrates income inequality across various countries in the world. The data used to generate it was gathered from the CIA Factbook. http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/what-are-wallst-protestors-angry-about/
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Debtris
Brilliant video by Information is Beautiful concerning the state of American economics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Pahd2X-eE
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The Wall Street Pentagon Papers
Data release reveals “emergency lending programs” that doled out $12.3 TRILLION in taxpayer money – $3.3 trillion in liquidity, $9 trillion in “other financial arrangements.” -David DeGraw http://pubrecord.org/nation/8622/pentagon-papers-wall-street/
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