How’s your science

Very interesting to be forced to remember stuff you don’t really have to remember. I got 100%, thankfully. I do self-describe as a scientist, donchaknow.

Senses (pain and cats)

Two contrasting developments in sense-related technology:A simple pain inflicting ray could mess up warfare and massively enhance 4GW (imagine a terrorist cell with one of these: get rid of the guards at the X and then bomb it).Haptic sensors (here cat’s...

Flashlight to laser

Scary, but true. You can light a match with a DVD laser (and some soldering skills I don’t have). Shows 1) how good lasers are and 2) how much technology there is in what we see as simple things.

China gets more scary

China has to come to a halt or find some serious new technology (which Lovelock doesn’t think will be possible):To put it another way, China now seems likely to need as much energy in2010 as it thought it would need in 2020 under the most...