In this extended version of the talk from our latest issue , we speak with Jim Rekoske, VP for renewable energy and chemicals for Honeywell--which licenses its biofuel technology to refineries.
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Feed SubscriptionDemystifying the Higgs Results: A Panel Discussion for the General Public, 12:301:30 PM ET [Live Stream]
What do the results of the Higgs boson , the "God particle," mean for science ? Join researchers from the Perimeter Institute, Canada's premier center for theoretical physics, for an interactive, live webcast as they discuss the latest findings from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the biggest, most ambitious scientific experiment in human history.
Read More »How The Video Game Awards Are Leveling Up A Fading Format
With its splashy augmented reality-infused sets, unorthodox format, and world premieres of gamer-baiting blockbusters, this year’s VGAs are rewriting awards show code. The idea of a glitzy award show is far from the frag fests gamers are used to. But for Spike TV’s Video Game Awards , the worlds of pageantry and pixels collide to create something entirely new.
Read More »Build a Brand from Scratch: 4 Tricks
My company set out to revolutionize the workout. But first, we had to put our name on the map
Read More »Helping Customers Help Themselves
Your online customers need help, not template e-mails.
Read More »Steel Your Nerves Before a Big Speech
Knowing your content cold helps. But if you still feel nervous, try one of these simple tactics.
Read More »Amping Up Brain Function: Transcranial Stimulation Shows Promise in Speeding Up Learning
WASHINGTON, D.C.--One of the most difficult tasks to teach Air Force pilots who guide unmanned attack drones is how to pick out targets in complex radar images. Pilot training is currently one of the biggest bottlenecks in deploying these new, deadly weapons. [More]
Read More »Can Small Business Saturday Succeed?
The Friday after Thanksgiving is known for big deals at large retailers. But can AmEx's marketing push help claim enough of that business for the little guys?
Read More »Oceans Teem With Tiny Plastic Particles
Swirls of trashed plastic litter the seven seas. But it's not the enormous plastic patches that pose the biggest pollution problem
Read More »Fresh Start: Scientists Glimpse Unsullied Traces of the Infant Universe
By peering into the distance with the biggest and best telescopes in the world, astronomers have managed to glimpse exploding stars, galaxies and other glowing cosmic beacons as they appeared just hundreds of millions of years after the big bang.
Read More »Google+ Brand Pages: Should You Launch One?
Google+ is nowhere near as big as Facebook and Twitter... yet
Read More »Behind-the-Scenes at the National Hurricane Center
MIAMI -- There's only one building in Florida that can withstand the biggest and baddest of all hurricanes -- the Category 5, with winds of at least 165 mph (266 kph) -- and it's a concrete bunker along an unglamorous stretch of road in South Florida called the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The NHC never closes. Here, weather forecasters work around the clock, 365 days a year, tracking threatening storms in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
Read More »IBM Simulates 4.5 percent of the Human Brain, and All of the Cat Brain
Supercomputers can store more information than the human brain and can calculate a single equation faster, but even the biggest, fastest supercomputers in the world cannot match the overall processing power of the brain. And they are nowhere near as compact or energy efficient . Nevertheless, IBM is trying to simulate the human brain with its own cutting-edge supercomputer, called Blue Gene
Read More »"Steve Jobs" By The Numbers
Just how big will the biography of the late Apple founder be? It's "the biggest nonfiction book of the year," a publishing insider tells Fast Company. Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs
Read More »The Crazy One – A Steve Jobs Tribute
Last week a few of my twitter pals and I had a conversation about how we are proud to describe ourselves as ‘crazy’ and ‘ridiculous’. Sparked by Mark Changizi’s article at the Huffington Post on ‘What to do about all the crazy, ridiculous research ‘ out there, the general consensus was that sometimes what seem to be the most outlandish ideas are the ones that lead to the biggest advancements in science and elsewhere.
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