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Freeman Dyson

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Name: Freeman Dyson

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

The Enzmann Solution

Yesterday I remarked on how many more tools for exoplanet discovery we have today than were available to Harry Stine when he wrote “A Program for Star Flight” in 1973. That same day came the disheartening news that the Kepler mission has been stopped ... [Published Centauri Dreams - May 16 2013]

Entities: Freeman Dyson, Eugen Sänger, G. Harry Stine, Bob Forward

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Paint the Town in My Ten Friends Polishes

A guide to recognizing all that glittersAfter eons of research, we thought we had our mani routine down pat. Then we met My Ten Friends nail polish maker Mei-Lynn Hunter.The sci-fi-obsessed beauty guru’s sparkling, saturated mixes speak for themselves, ... [Published Daily Candy - May 15 2013]

Entities: Laser, Mae Jemison, Freeman Dyson

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Watson letter: AGW just a passing fad

Well, well, I see Duane Keown gets to spread his gospel on the front page above the fold, somewhat appropriately, in the Sunday edition of the Boomerang. I say appropriately because he is a true believer in the secular Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) ... [Published Laramie News - May 15 2013]

Entities: Kary Mullis, hypothesis, Religion, Richard Lindzen

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Starship Century Symposium

Location: 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093 When:May 21, 2013Time: 9:00 am–8:00 pmA two-day event devoted to an ongoing exploration of the development of a starship in the next 100 years. Scientists will address the challenges and opportunities for ... [Published La Jolla Patch - May 14 2013]

Entities: Geoffrey A. Landis, Allen Steele, Joe Haldeman

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Interviews: Freeman Dyson Answers Your Questions

A while ago you had the chance to ask mathematician and theoretical physicist, Freeman Dyson, about his work in quantum electrodynamics, nuclear propulsion, and his thoughts on the past, present, and future of science. Below you'll find his answers to ... [Published Slashdot - May 13 2013]

Entities: Freeman Dyson, Quantum Electrodynamics, Mathematician

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Science in dispute

I THINK that Tom Ballantine ("Why wind power is worth the risk" Letters, 10 May) misunderstands the paper on climate  experts that seems to have  energised his contribution. Attempting to assess credibility or expertise is a fraught issue. The authors ... [Published The Scotsman - May 11 2013]

Entities: Climate, Carbon Dioxide, Global Warming/Climate Change, Halobacterium, Edinburgh (United Kingdom)

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Princeton University

Princeton Weekend Guide: May 10-12

FridayScreening of three Princeton University student films: 'Eugenix,' 'O.C. Davey,' and 'Outside the Lines.' A reception follows, 7 p.m.Princeton University Sinfonia presents Rossini: William Tell Overture Lutosławski: Mała Suita (Little Suite) Bruch: ... [Published Princetonn NJ Patch - May 10 2013]

Entities: Peacock Group PLC, Princeton University, J. Richard Gott, Stuart Country Day School

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

UCSD to explore future of starships

The starships in series such as "Star Trek: Enterprise" have stirred the imagination of what rapid travel through the cosmos might be like. Paramount NetworkUC San Diego's new Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination will celebrate its opening in ... [Published U-T San Diego - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: University of California San Diego, Gregory Benford, Freeman Dyson, Arthur C Clarke

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Letter: A scientist to cherish

?Glad to be called a heretic,? says Freeman Dyson. To Dyson that term probably means the climate alarmists using it are practicing religion, not science. Dyson was Einstein?s replacement at Princeton?s Institute for Advanced Study. His questioning mind ... [Published State Journal-Register - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Study, Climate

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Interviews: Ask Freeman Dyson What You Will

Famous for his work in math, astronomy, nuclear engineering, and theoretical physics, Freeman Dyson has left his mark on almost every scientific discipline. He's won countless awards, and written numerous books on a wide range of topics both scientific ... [Published Slashdot - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Freeman Dyson, Dyson Sphere, Quantum Electrodynamics

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

Space spheres

You mentioned that Dyson spheres, vast platforms engineered to enclose a star and harvest its energy, could be alternative targets for alien hunters (6 April, p 42).Could Dyson spheres, in fact, be the explanation for dark matter – the mystery nature ... [Published New Scientist - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Freeman Dyson, Dark Matter, Solar System

First reported Apr 05 2013 - Updated Apr 05 2013 - 1 reports

Freeman Dyson speaks out about climate science, and fudge

Climatologists Are No Einsteins, Says His Successor by Paul Mulshine, The Star Ledger via the GWPF Freeman Dyson is a physicist who has been teaching at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since Albert Einstein was there. When Einstein died ... [Published Watts Up With That? - Apr 05 2013]

Entities: Freeman Dyson, Climate, Albert Einstein, Paul Mulshine, Institute for Advanced Study

Quotes

Freeman Dyson said, "the 21st century will be the century of biology. i predict that the domestication of biotechnology will dominate our lives during the next 50 years as the domestication of computers dominated our lives during the previous 50." Biohacking is intelligent purposeful play but it's play with genes, artificial life, new human skills...

Confronting the challenges posed by biohacking [Published Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Apr 20 2013]

More Content

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The Enzmann Solution [Published Centauri Dreams - May 16 2013]
Harry Stine: Building the Infrastructure [Published Centauri Dreams - May 15 2013]
Paint the Town in My Ten Friends Polishes [Published Daily Candy - May 15 2013]
Watson letter: AGW just a passing fad [Published Laramie News - May 15 2013]
Starship Century Symposium [Published La Jolla Patch - May 14 2013]
Interviews: Freeman Dyson Answers Your Questions [Published Slashdot - May 13 2013]
The Happy Green Planet, Why Has Global Warming ... [Published Market Oracle - May 12 2013]
Science in dispute [Published The Scotsman - May 11 2013]
Princeton Weekend Guide: May 10-12 [Published Princetonn NJ Patch - May 10 2013]
Update on Starship Century Symposium [Published Centauri Dreams - May 07 2013]
Future-Friendly Memes & Motifs in Mainstream Mu... [Published Lifeboat News The Blog - May 07 2013]
Feynman graphic-novel biography out in paperbac... [Published Boing Boing - Apr 30 2013]
Diagnosis: Snobbery [Published U-T San Diego - Apr 29 2013]
UCSD to explore future of starships [Published U-T San Diego - Apr 29 2013]
Letter: A scientist to cherish [Published State Journal-Register - Apr 29 2013]
ANS Update 4///25 The Mini-Mag Orion Space Prop... [Published Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire - Apr 25 2013]
Confronting the challenges posed by biohacking [Published Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Apr 20 2013]
Starship Century Symposium May 21-22 [Published Centauri Dreams - Apr 19 2013]
When the World Went Digital [Published American Scientist - Apr 18 2013]
In CO2 We (Didnt) Trust [Published Market Oracle - Apr 18 2013]
Interviews: Ask Freeman Dyson What You Will [Published Slashdot - Apr 18 2013]
The climate change skeptics aren't helpful [Published Charleston Daily Mail - Apr 18 2013]
Space spheres [Published New Scientist - Apr 17 2013]
Gold And Carbon - Overpriced Assets Hit The Dust [Published Market Oracle - Apr 15 2013]
Waste of energy -- and money [Published PhillyBurbs.com - Apr 12 2013]
Dyson: Climatologists are no Einsteins [Published The Reference Frame - Apr 06 2013]
Freeman Dyson speaks out about climate science,... [Published Watts Up With That? - Apr 05 2013]
Into the Oort: A Cometary Civilization? [Published Centauri Dreams - Mar 26 2013]
The Conquest of the Future [Published REASON Online - Mar 19 2013]
Twin births [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Mar 14 2013]

Blogs

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The Enzmann Solution [Published Centauri Dreams - May 16 2013] Yesterday I remarked on how many more tools for exoplanet discovery we have today than were available to Harry Stine when he wrote “A Program for Star Flight” in 1973. That same day came the disheartening news that the Kepler mission has been stopped ...
Harry Stine: Building the Infrastructure [Published Centauri Dreams - May 15 2013] When he was working out his ideas for a steadily escalating program of interstellar exploration, Harry Stine had to contend with the fact that we knew nothing about planets around other stars. He drew on the work of Stephen Dole, whose 1964 book Habitable ...
Update on Starship Century Symposium [Published Centauri Dreams - May 07 2013] We had a successful launch last night of the ESTCube-1 satellite from Kourou, about which more tomorrow when I’ll be talking about electric sails and their uses both interplanetary and interstellar. But this morning, with the Starship Century Symposium ...
Future-Friendly Memes & Motifs in Mainstream Mu... [Published Lifeboat News The Blog - May 07 2013] Artifacts, Artifictions, Artifutures 0.3 In the last installment I argued that the increasing predominance of futurist themes, memes and motifs in mainstream popular media (focusing on mainstream music and music-videos) is making future-friendly and ...
Feynman graphic-novel biography out in paperbac... [Published Boing Boing - Apr 30 2013] Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick's Feynman , a stupendous biography of Richard Feynman in graphic novel form that went to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, is out in paperback as of today! Here's my original review from 2011: Jim Ottaviani ...