Monthly Archives: November 2013
IT and US energy: grids go smart, armed forces go solar
The US Navy is more committed to solar energy supply than mainstream investors, who prefer to massage energy demand – downwards.
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The future of higher education and IT
There was a time when universities and higher education led many other sectors of the economy in their research about and use of IT. How do we get that position back?
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If only briefly, China’s Milky Way 2 has taken the lead in the kind of machine that will be a vital to tomorrow’s heavy lifting in security, science and manufacturing
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Humanity: alive and well in the fast lane
The human spirit – motorists emphatically included – remains intrepid, indomitable, and impervious to differences of race, age or gender.
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@jameswoudhuysen I use my bicycle every day. Exercise and access to shopping without any parking meters and all that fuzz. But alfa-cyclists are the worst. They are competing at 40 mph and always acting rudely to get where they are going.
A PRO-CAR CYCLIST WRITES: 12-1pm tomorrow on #R4, will be talking bikes, cars, pedestrians, public transport – and #JeremyVine
Stimulating piece on the #CrisisOfCustomerService by clever @ClaerB @FT.
All that Clinton-era #CustomerExperience guff was always for the birds - certainly compared with, er, price.
The new thang? Often there is NO service - and thus no #CX!
Innovators I like
Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls