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Living in the Future: May 20, 2013

This week on We are Living in the Future: Musical Tesla Coils, MIT’s cheetah robot, and software that can identify people and demographics from a webcam

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Living in the Future: April 22, 2013

This week: Solar-powered plane to cross USA, Orbital’s first rocket test launch a success, and robotic dragonflies take to the sky

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Living in the Future: April 15, 2013

This week: The solution to invasive species: eat them! Planting a 100-year forest study; and a hexapod transport robot reminiscent of DocOc from Spiderman.

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Living in the Future: April 8, 2013

This week: efficient ionic wind engines, NASA’s “lassoing” asteroids challenge, and cheap computers on a chip: the Raspberry Pi

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Living in the Future: April 1, 2013

This week on We are Living in the Future: 3d Printing of Food, Human/Mice hybrids reveal secrets of human intellect, and fuel produced from sunlight and CO2 by Cyanobacteria.

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Living in the Future: More than 500 clones from a single cell, paint-on-plastic electronics and touchscreens that know you

This week on We are Living in the Future: Scientists in Japan set a new world record for number of clones from a single cell, having cloned 581 full mice. If their techniques can be used in other places, science may have the tools to make perfect genetic tests – a single genome for testing [...]

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Daily Quote: Jud Hendrix

“All we have is today This morning, this sunrise Our breath is a sign that this day has entered us It has chosen us In our waking may we receive it with an open and gracious heart As God receives God” -Jud Hendrix

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Living in the Future: 3D Digital Archaeology, Community-Fiber Cable & Phasers

This week on We are Living in the future: Archaeologists use 3D imaging and printing to reconstruct priceless artifacts, an area of rural Britain installs Fiber cable themselves, and scientists design a “phaser” which uses sound waves instead of light waves.

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Daily Quote: Joseph Campbell

“We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us — the labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path; …where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where [...]

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Daily Quote: Harvey Mackay

“Anyone too busy to say ‘thank-you’ will get fewer and fewer chances to say it” -Harvey Mackay, “How to Say It”

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