Yoda: Physicists Tie Fluid Into a Knot — Dolphins Key to Breaking Code

Impossible, possible. Physicists Tie Fluid Into a Knot Jonathan Bolding | 4 March 2013 4:29 pm The vortex knot was first theorized a century ago, but only created in a lab this year. Physicists at the University of Chicago have created a vortex knot in a lab environment, a feat which has been theorized for …

Ho Ho Ho: Unhappy Neighbors — South China Sea as Flash Point, Indonesia and Viet-Nam Seek Solutions — China’s U-Shaped Line and String of Pearls

Unhappy Neighbors Ngo Vinh Long The Cairo Review of Foreign Affairs, February 10, 2013 Speaking to diplomats, businessmen and journalists at the British Foreign Office in November, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia emphasized the need for “norms and principles” in resolving disputes in the South China Sea. Why did President Yudhoyono, who was spending …

Koko: Fukushima Radiation Update for US West Coast

2013-02-20  U.S. bluefin tuna still contaminated with Fukushima radiation — Study: Cesium found in 100% of small, recently migrated tuna tested Forbes, Feb. 20, 2013: […] Last week one of the authors of the study from last year, Daniel J. Madigan from Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station—along with five other scientists— published a new follow-up …

Open Power: Democracy Lost & Found Essay, Book Review Blurbs and Links [Updated 3 MAR 2015]

NEW: Kindle Book Open Power ($2.99) OLD: Core Documents for Both Initiatives (Free) OLD: the foundation book The Open Source Everything Manifesto ROBERT STEELE: There are two schools of thought on effecting political (and hence economic and social) reform. One school is the school of love — this school emphasizes trust building and doing no …

Berto Jongman: 4D Printed Objects Self-Assemble

TED 2013: 4D printed objects ‘make themselves’ Many are only just getting their heads around the idea of 3D printing but scientists at MIT are already working on an upgrade: 4D printing.   At the TED conference in Los Angeles, architect and computer scientist Skylar Tibbits showed how the process allows objects to self-assemble.  It could …

Eagle: Concentration camp survivor, Resistance fighter and the man who inspired the Occupy movement: Stephane Hessel dies at age of 95

Concentration camp survivor, Resistance fighter and the man who inspired the Occupy movement: Stephane Hessel dies at age of 95 A German by birth, he was imprisoned in Nazi camps during World War II At the camps he was waterboarded during torture sessions Time for Outrage became an inspiration for Occupy Wall Street movement Jill …

Review: Creative Innovators – The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World

Tom Wagner 5.0 out of 5 stars Creating Innovators is NOT What Most US Schools Do…., February 27, 2013 I had a chance to go through this book today while visiting a school in Fairfax Virginia and I liked it. I have gone with 5 stars because it is a message that needs repeating as …