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See, open source works :)

The guy is studying Aeronautics in Delft and has been working on his flying bike since he was 16. He manage to fly 1.5 m high and 10 m long! A bit higher and the bike helm is not going to be of so much help!

list of newly selected innovation projects by NASA; contains some topics at least interesting from the title and some that we have worked on! anybody interested in making a quick read and analysis of these? (though last time we did not get much feedback on our report)

Looks really cool! And it's open source :)

Don't know if you've noticed, but the current version is becoming more and more usable... did you try it already in your collaborative work?

We've used it a bit with Juxi and Leopold for the work on the new issue of acta futura, and I think it is quite nice. The problem right now is that only a few people in the team have an account (and I have exhausted my invitations). Maybe you have one or two you are willing to share? :)

looking a bit back to small world nets bibliography I bumped into that. quote: The probability that a Brazilian soccer player has worked at $N$ clubs or played $M$ games shows an exponential decay while the probability that he has scored $G$ goals is power law. (!)

The work of a german photographer on forms in plant. Inspiring but not scientific.

Physicists: Can this work also outside water?

A very nice documentary on Prof. Nicolelis extraordinary work

Nigeria's space agency. And yes they are working with a European university, the obvious one for microsatellites, Surrey The official website is hard to read but here it is http://www.nasrda.org/

Understanding how memory works in a brain. Not the last paper on this topic, I assume.

A good reason to work on advanced ideas!!!

This work establishes a methodology for scavenging light-wind energy and body-movement energy using fabrics.

Concurrent work, no installation needed. I like it...

The dragonfly wings as discussed during the Bremen KO meeting. There should also be some cool videos and CFD stuff visualizing how this actually works.

I am sure that Kevin would love this one ... just installed it ... would it work on our ariadnet?

Apparently, the generation growing up with internet (native digital) will be living and working in a completely different way. ESA might have to adapt.

This work tries to answer Luzi's major concern.

A blog of a futurologist. We don't do that, but still it is interesting how these guys work. And what type of stuff they distribute...

It works with propellant available on Mars!!!!!

The Millennium Project is a global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities. The Millennium Project manages a coherent and cumulative process that collects and assesses judgements from its several hundred participants to produce the annual "State of the Future", "Futures Research Methodology" series, and special studies such as the State of the Future Index, Future Scenarios for Africa, Lessons of History, Environmental Security, Applications of Futures Research to Policy, and a 700+ annotated scenarios bibliography.

very nice page - we should use some of its resources!!