Monthly Archives: July 2014
People, your TVs are too big!
Earlier this year, Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat secretary of state for energy, hit a new low in proposals to deal with Britain’s inadequate and pricey energy supply.
Read the full article...Communicating the romance of innovation
James Woudhuysen delivered the Opening Keynote II ‘Communicating the Romance of Innovation‘ at the European Communication Summit in Brussels 2014
Read the full article...IT’s not the future
The Second Machine Age sacrifices sense at the altar of technology
Read the full article...Fujitsu World Tour 2014: The human centric intelligent society
Fujitsu UK CTO Jon Wrennall talks to James Woudhuysen about how technology can help us meet the most human of needs: energy and food.
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No 10 on #Shapps? 'Strong on media, sharp instincts, useful in the election'.
BUT former Army chief Richard Dannatt: Shapps “knows very little about defence”.
Since 2002, when BBC head Jon Birt was put i/c of rail futures, ignorance has been cool. Fab!http://on.ft.com/3PnJeuQ
A reminder that the brilliant British film written by the wonderful playwright Barrie Keefe and starring Bob Hopkins and Helen Mirren is on tonight @Film4 11.10 pm #BarrieKeeffe #HelenMirren #BobHoskins
Add EVs, heat pumps, and hydrogen electrolysers.
Good luck powering all of that with wind & solar.
Either you start building gas and nuclear power plants now, or we will once again bow to King Coal for the rescue.
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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