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Jan 17, 2019
Opal-filled fossils reveal timid, dog-size dinosaur that lived down under
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
When Mike Poben, an opal buyer and and fossil fanatic, bought a bucket of opal from an Australian mine, he was surprised to find to find what looked like an ancient tooth in the pile.
Later, he also found a fossilized jaw piece — one that was shiny and glistening with opal.
After showing the two opalized specimens to paleontologists in 2014, Poben learned that they were part of a previously unknown dog-size dinosaur species, a new study finds. This dino lived about 100 million years ago in Australia, back when the landscape was lush and dotted with lakes. [Photos: Meet Wade, the Long-Necked Dinosaur from Down Under].
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Jan 17, 2019
Inside China’s Future Factory | Hello World Shenzhen: Part One
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: business, futurism
Over the past 40 years, the fishing village of Shenzhen has been reborn as a futuristic metropolis bursting with factories. Bloomberg Businessweek’s Ashlee Vance travels to the heart of China’s tech revolution to witness this new reality firsthand, as part of a three-episode exploration of the city. In part one of Hello World Shenzhen, Vance gets a worker’s view of life in a startup and then explores one of the city’s famous electronics markets to learn how people survive (and in some cases make fortunes) in such a frenetic, competitive environment.
https://www.bloomberg.com/hello-world
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Jan 16, 2019
If Yellowstone erupts where should I go? What will happen?
Posted by John Gallagher in category: futurism
What’s the solution to this problem?
Did you know that the Yellowstone supervolcano could erupt at any time causing death, destruction, chaos, and possibly even a nuclear winter that could wipe out a good number of the inhabitants of planet earth? If it does, where would you go?
A new look at “the Russian Blues” demonstrates the power of words to shape perception.
- By Catherine L. Caldwell-Harris, Ph.D. on January 15, 2019
Jan 15, 2019
CERN Unveils Design for 62-Mile-Round Atom Smasher More Powerful Than the Large Hadron Collider
Posted by Carse Peel in categories: futurism, particle physics
A scientific collaboration has released a concept design for the Large Hadron Collider’s successor, an enormous new experiment that would sit inside a hundred-kilometer (62-mile) tunnel.
The design concept plans for two Future Circular Colliders, the first which would begin operation perhaps in 2040. The ambitious experiments would hunt for new particles with collision energies 10 times higher than those created by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The concept design is the first big milestone achieved by the scientific collaboration.
