interesting article - what happened to real innovation? "Thiel is caustic: last year he told the New Yorker that he didn't consider the iPhone a technological breakthrough." - Is it?

22 internationally renowned leaders in various fields of science and technology (2) have drafted and signed a petition addressed to Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament; Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council; and José Manuel Durão Barroso, President of the EU Commission.

Secure World Foundation (SWF) is pleased to announce that it will be accepting applications from young professionals for scholarships to aid in traveling to present papers at the 2012 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Naples, Italy.

Cool - reminds me of the cockroach ARIADNA study see the videos in supplementary material

Who are the most ruthless capitalists in the western world? Whose monopolistic practices make Walmart look like a corner shop and Rupert Murdoch a socialist? You won't guess the answer in a month of Sundays. While there are plenty of candidates, my vote goes not to the banks, the oil companies or the health insurers, but - wait for it - to academic publishers.

It is a really great article and the first time I read something in this direction. FULLY AGREE as well. Problem is I have not much encouraging to report from the Brussels region...

Crowsourcing Awareness: "To augment the use of these space technologies, virtual communities of group intelligence - called "Crowdsourcing" - can aide in emergency planning and post-disaster coordination."

If anybody's interested, here are the presentations from all FP7 Space Projects presented at the "Let's Embrace Space" in Budapest. A hard-copy book with information is with Leopold and here: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/research/publications/index_en.htm you can find brochures with information

Hello? Tobias, Dario, Luis: Should we take a look?

pretty cool - Couldnt the ACT do sth similar with the ARIADNA projects?!

oops

Let's start betting which party Aliens vote: GREEN, BLUE, RED, BLACK?

Good to see "The Netherlands" not in the top list... Btw Fraud detection becoming hot potato in EU funding...

ACT RFs should be able to go on mission in one of those once a year

A neoliberal look on AI and swarms

strategic

memory cloning

- Smart Tractors?!?!? - "Guidance systems are enablers," said Mr James. "Farmers buy them with one job in mind and then realise they can use it for lots more."

"Affluent western individuals are increasingly fretting about the carbon dioxide emissions from their lifestyle and energy use but one key issue, having fewer children, is little considered. " If sb has access to the article... Having fewer children as a solution to climate change makes me curious...

The weight support system seems to me interesting for space and astronauts...plus lets hire an asimo!