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In the news this
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- Imperfect clones.
- New nano-materials.
- Getting good at failure.
- The new philanthropy.
- Deadlock on global trade.
- A breakthrough in biofuels.
- Selfishness -- a future trend?
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We also highlight...
Peter Corning's book, Holistic Darwinism: Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Bioeconomics of Evolution... Peter Corning -- director of the Institute for the Study of Complex Systems -- offers a new framework for understanding the evolution of complex systems, with applications in thermodynamics, information theory and economic analysis.
The website of BrainReactions... "Technology and trends change every year. College students are in the last stage of life where they have the freedom from responsibility to indulge and participate in the latest market trends. At the same time, they are being educated on the latest research and newest technological frontiers. This combination results in an ability to dream and discover that is unmatched at any other point in life."
An audio clip from The Diane Rehm Show... Diane talks to visual futurist Syd Mead.
David Forrest
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SCIENCE
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Story: The Perils of Cloning - [TIME]
Ten years after Dolly's birth, scientists are learning that clones may not be such perfect copies after all.
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TECHNOLOGY
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Story: Smart Materials Could Help Engineer a New Liver - [Technology Review]
By building up coatings one molecular layer at a time, MIT researchers have made a new class of materials that can release drugs, and even genes, in an exact sequence and at a predetermined rate. The method could be widely applicable for designing novel multilayered materials to improve the safety of medical implants and to serve as elaborate scaffolding in the tissue engineering of cells to make bones, blood vessels, muscles, and livers in the lab.
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BUSINESS
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Story: How Failure Breeds Success - [Yahoo News] For a generation of managers weaned on the rigors of Six Sigma error-elimination programs, embracing failure -- gasp! -- is close to blasphemy.
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SOCIETY
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Story: Young and Wealthy and Giving It Away - [ABC News] Unlike their predecessors, today's multimillionaires don't wait until retirement to donate much of their vast wealth, and they are much more involved in how their money is put to good use. Since the dot-com and tech boom of the late 1990s, philanthropy has become a younger industry.
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GLOBAL
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Story: Trade Deal Looks More Like a Distant Dream - [Washington Post] Globalization moves in fits and starts, sometimes three steps forward, sometimes two steps back, sometimes at a gallop, sometimes at a crawl. It took a nasty tumble when a conference intended to advance a worldwide trade agreement ended in failure.
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ENVIRONMENT
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Story: A Competitor For Ethanol? - [Forbes] DuPont and BP, riding the global wave of enthusiasm for bio-based fuels, announced today that the two companies have developed a new biofuel called biobutanol that they say has 30% more energy density than ethanol.
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Story: Society in 2025 Will Be Based on Selfishness - [Belfast Telegraph] A new study suggests that consumerism and individualism may prove a more dominant force by 2025 than caring about poverty. It found that, for the first time since 1994, Britons regard looking after themselves as more important to quality of life than looking after their communities.
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Featured Book:
Holistic Darwinism: Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Bioeconomics of Evolution
by Peter A. Corning
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Featured Link: BrainReactions - Creative 18 to 24-year-olds help companies create new products, services and marketing concepts.
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Audio Clip: Syd Mead - [The Diane Rehm Show] The self described "visual futurist" of "Blade Runner" discusses his design work in film and beyond. (July 7, 2006)
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