sst-0548 The National Oceanography Center (NOC) is engaged in research into the potential risks and benefits of exploiting deep-sea mineral resources, some of which are essential for low-carbon technology, as well as using ocean robots to estimate the environmental impact of these potential deep-sea mining activities. Late last year the NOC led an expedition on the RRS James Cook that […]
sst-0547 This is talk about visualizing life without fossil fuels, we have an addiction to fossil fuels and it’s not sustainable. When I say we, I’m talking about the so-called developed world. The developed world gets 80 or 90% of all its energy from fossil fuels and living on fossil fuels for energy. In this way, it’s not sustainable for […]
sst-0546 This simulation shows what you might see. If you are orbiting a black hole. The light and position of background stars around the hole are distorted by its gravity and they seem to spin around. On the right the constellation Orion appears to approach the event horizon the boundary from which nothing can escape. Orion stars look like they […]
sst-0545 This is Hans Krebs, who in 1937 published a paper showing the sequence of chemical reactions, by which energy is released in individual cells. It is called the Krebs cycle, which some of you may remember from your chemistry course in your high school. Krebs is a wonderful example to me of how a scientist who is determined can […]
sst-0544 We all know that there are some factors for species and animals to survive and reproduce, including environmental conditions, temperature, tolerance range, body size, weight, diets, seasonal and daily activity, behavior, and the altitude they live. Animals migrate to find a new habitat because the change of environment and only species that have the tolerance for the new environment […]
sst-0543 VR is a computer technology that uses virtual reality headsets or multi-projected environments, sometimes in combination with physical environments or props, to generate realistic images, sounds and other sensations that simulate a user’s physical presence in a virtual or imaginary environment. All modern VR displays are based on technology developed for smartphones including: gyroscopes and motion sensors for tracking […]
sst-0542 What is Globalization? Globalization can usefully be conceived as a process (or set of processes), which embodies a transformation in the spatial organization of social relations, and transactions, generating transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity, interaction and power. It is characterized by four types of change:First, it involves a stretching of social, political and economic activities across […]
sst-0541 Globalization, what is globalization? I think that it takes on a few different definitions in one sense of the word. Globalization means proliferation of transactions across country. So, one way of thinking about globalization is a way to describe, increase international communications, more trade happening between countries and be less self-sufficient in providing goods and services to their people […]
sst-0540 Do you know who Amory Lovins is? Nobody. Amory Lovins is an unusual character. He is something of polymath. Just say, he has varied (sort of) knowledge across a wide range of fields. He’s not an academic. He actually has a consulting company which he runs until recently out of his home in Colorado. He lives beside Snowmass in […]
sst-0539 Both music and language have a lot of similarities: They involve complex sequences that unfold in time. They are both forms of communication. This has interested all the world’s best philosophers from Plato going back over 2000 years. Scientists like Darwin wrote about possible evolutionary links between music and language in his book the Descent of Man and so […]