I’ve been researching the oil and gas industry lately. This industry has a negative stigma attached to it as being very environmentally insensitive. Granted, oil spills and gas leaks aren’t helping the industry’s image.
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One common approach with seasoned Angel Investors, known as "convertible debt," can be a sweetheart deal for the angel, but the question is, Is it good for the entrepreneur? Convertible debt is the best of both worlds for the angel investor, but is it for the entrepreneur? The risk for an angel investor is they invest money in an entrepreneur's business and find the company's stock is worth nothing in a few years and they lose their money.
Read More »Lindau Nobel Meeting–Beef Bug to Blame for Bowel Cancer?
Even if you adore red meat, you'll put off your big juicy steak by hearing what
Read More »The Gadget Failure Hall of Fame
Some tech flops are famous and well documented: Microsoft Bob. The Segway scooter. The Iridium satellite cellphone
Read More »PGT: Tiger’s dominance set U.S. golf back
PGT: Tiger Woods not only decimated a generation of his peers with his play, but he suffocated the current crop of young American players that are expected to live up to his standard.
Read More »Problems Without Passports: Scientific Research Diving at USC Dornsife–Experiential Learning and Communicating
Once, while lecturing 150 freshmen about the value of the natural world in which we live I paused and asked, "How many of you can tell me the current phase of the moon?” None could. [More]
Read More »Phage May Have Been Key to Europe’s Deadly E. Coli Outbreak
By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Women, beansprouts, cucumbers, bacteria, cows: the cast of the current European Escherichia coli outbreak is already a crowd. [More]
Read More »Is the Current Weather Affecting Your Health?
As spring begins to give way to summer, this year's weather conditions so far have been responsible for everything from an above-average allergy symptoms to blazing wildfires. But how is the current weather affecting your health? Allergies [More]
Read More »10 Inspiring Success Stories
May is Small Business Month, and to celebrate we're honoring 31 inspiring stories of small business success. Here's a look at ten of them. Chris Zane is in the experience business
Read More »Scientists looking to burst the superconductivity bubble
Bubbles are blocking the current path of one of the most promising high temperature superconducting materials, new research suggests.
Read More »African ocean current could boost Gulf Stream
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An ocean current that flows down the east coast of Africa could strengthen a circulation pattern that brings warmth to Europe, according to a new study that challenges existing climate science. In a study in the latest issue of the journal Nature, scientists examining the Agulhas Current found more of the current's warm, salty water was entering the southern Atlantic, whose waters are cooler and fresher
Read More »Interviewing Geoffrey Moore: New Book in the Fall
This article is Part 2 of an 8 part series. Read Part 1 to get caught up. Geoffrey Moore ’s work is required reading at top business schools
Read More »Budget Cuts Open Earth Observation Gap
The fiscal 2011 budget compromise crafted by the White House and congressional leaders would delay a key federal climate and weather satellite program, making a lengthy gap in critical environmental data a near certainty. Cuts contained in the 2011 budget plan would push back the launch of the first Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) orbiter by at least 18 months past the current 2016 target, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco said yesterday.
Read More »Absolute Hero: Heilke Onnes’s Discovery of Superconductors Turns 100 [Slide Show]
On April 8, 1911, at the Leiden Cryogenic Laboratory in the Netherlands, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and his collaborators immersed a mercury capillary in liquid helium and saw the mercury's electrical resistance drop to nothing once the temperature reached about 3 kelvins, or 3 degrees above absolute zero (around –270 Celsius). This phenomenon of "superconductivity" was one of the first quantum phenomena to be discovered, although back then quantum theory did not exist. In subsequent decades theoreticians were able to put quantum physics on a solid foundation and explain superconductivity.
Read More »Human Genome Slowly Finds Medical Use
It’s been more than a decade since the human genome was published.
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