Science

The 1400 & Biofuel

Algae

The Southern Utes, one of the nation’s wealthiest American Indian communities thanks to its energy and real-estate investments, is a major investor in the professor’s company. It hopes to gain a toehold in what tribal leaders believe could be the next billion-dollar energy boom.

But from the tribe’s perspective, the business model here is about more than business. “It’s a marriage of an older way of thinking into a modern time,” said the tribe’s chairman, Matthew J. Box, referring to the interplay of environmental consciousness and investment opportunity around algae.

(via the NY Times)

Exponential Ignorance

“…science is a method that chiefly expands our ignorance rather than our knowledge.”

Or chiefly produces cake.

Through a Glass, Clearly

California Academy of Sciences Heather’s photo only stokes my excitement further about the upcoming reopening of the California Academy of Sciences.

Hoth, Big Dog, the Buzz and the End

When the robots come for us, it will be buzzing. Matrix meets Silent Hill meets Hoth:

Biojewellery

Rings The Biojewellery project takes bone cells from couples and cultures them into rings for each other to wear.

The Geometry of Music, The Economics of Space

Geometry of Music Slashdot is on today.

Two gems: Dmitri Tymoczko’s theory of representing chordal music in N-dimensional space and Paul Krugman’s paper on interstellar economics.

Valentine Math Awards