Tag: technology
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Saturday Links
1. I don't know much about Common Good RVA, but I like their vision. Christianity Today published a piece featuring them, Why the Rest of Your Week Matters to God "In general, the church has done a fine job equipping Christians for the "private" areas of their lives: prayer, morality, family life, and so on.…
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New Technology Is Making Us More Like the Amish
Slate: New Technology Is Making Us More Like the Amish We’re becoming a bit more Amish I know. You own a slim titanium ultrabook computer, an eye popping LCD 3D HD television, an iPhone with a custom-designed carbon fiber cover, and a sports car with 360 horsepower under the hood. You don’t have anything in…
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Saturday Links
Here are this week's odds and ends that didn't make it to the blog. Enjoy the leftovers! 1. MIT Technology Review says Geoengineering Could Be Essential to Reducing the Risk of Climate Change. "Using technology to cool the planet may be the only way to deal with the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere, argues…
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The Consequences of Machine Intelligence
Atlantic: The Consequences of Machine Intelligence Moshe Vardi If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do? … Bill Joy's question deserves therefore not to be ignored: Does the future need us? By this I mean to ask, if machines are capable of doing almost any work humans…
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Small modular reactors provide path forward for nuclear power
The Hill's Congress Blog: Small modular reactors provide path forward for nuclear power … So, what do we do? One path forward for the nuclear industry is through the construction of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). SMRs are nuclear reactors that are intentionally designed to be less than 300-megawatts, or about one-third of the size of…
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DOE promotes small-nuclear reactors (SMRs)
Homeland Security News Wire: DOE promotes small-nuclear reactors (SMRs) South Carolina’s Savannah River Site (SRS) located in Aiken, along with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), have announced three partnerships to develop three small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) at the SRS facility; SMRs produce less energy than a regular reactor, but they produce enough energy…
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Aeroponics is still a growing business. Look Ma, no soil!
Foododdity: Aeroponics is still a growing business. Look Ma, no soil! Look Ma, no soil! Aeroponics is a carefully cultivated system of growing plants in air, using only nutrient mist to farm crops horizontally or vertically. NASA has been working with plants in space since the 1960s, but they have really kicked it up a notch by…
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US incomes fall to 1989 levels. How did that happen?
Christian Science Monitor: US incomes fall to 1989 levels. How did that happen? A Census report signals that for much of America, the economic downturn has produced not one lost decade but two. But the data also show that federal safety-net programs helped keep people out of poverty. … … Economists haven't reached a consensus…