The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Will future college degrees be based more on experience than classroom time? Increasing signs of a movement toward granting degrees without ever setting foot in a classroom. By Joe McKendrick Conventional nuclear giant Areva strikes thorium deal Agrees to research and development with $17 billion Belgian chemicals stalwart Solvay. By Mark Halper Tesla wants to …
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Nobel physicist: Thorium trumps all fuels as energy source GENEVA – It’s high time for the nuclear industry to overhaul its conventional technology and shift to radically different reactor designs based on thorium fuel, a Nobel Prize winning physicist said. Carlo Rubbia, a former director of the CERN laboratory who shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics, …
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Could Iceland finally transmit clean electricity to Europe? The North Atlantic island has 100 percent “clean” electricity. Financing could soon emerge for a decades-old vision of the world’s longest subsea high voltage cable. Elon Musk’s advice to Ireland: Give engineers free tuition Elon Musk has some advice for world leaders who want to attract technology …
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CAPTCHA kaput? Software cracks “are you human” test An artificial intelligence company says their algorithm can solve CAPTCHAs — those distorted jumble of letters used to prove you’re not a bot — with 90 percent accuracy. By Janet Fang Massive underwater tunnel now links Europe and Asia by rail A new transit system in Turkey …
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Top 10 best and worst places to do business By Tyler Falk | October 29, 2013 If you’re a small or mid-sized business it will be easiest to do business if you’re based in Asia — places like Singapore, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. A new report from the World Bank, says that Asia has about …
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Global wind power expected to skyrocket You might have seen more wind farms popping up over the last few years, but wind energy still only accounts for a small percentage of global electricity production. According to a new report from the International Energy Agency, wind power generates only 2.6 percent of the world’s electricity, but …
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Western universities still dominate the upper reaches of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. But a power shift is underway and the east is beginning to rise through the ranks. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings powered by Thomson Reuters judges research-led universities on teaching, research, citations (research influence), industry income and international …
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