Bennett Cherry

JANUARY 24, 2008

Virgin Galactic has recently released an update on their plans to take the mega-rich into space. If you have $200,000 or so, you too can experience weightlessness and suborbital flight aboard SpaceShipTwo, a Scaled Composites original created by Burt Rutan. Some of the readers might recall the name Burt Rutan as the creator of SpaceShipOne (note the similarity in naming?

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Bennett Cherry

JANUARY 24, 2008

Apparently, some really smart folks at Harvard are going to use a really neat gadget to slice up a mouse's brain and try to map the synapses of the mind. As reported on Wired today, the mapping of the brain's circuitry is no easy task. In fact, it's been tried before and it took 10 long years (by hand) to map the rather-simple brain of a roundworm.

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Bennett Cherry

JANUARY 18, 2008

Is it really possible to make a city of 40,000+ inhabitants both zero emissions and zero waste? It will be interesting to watch the plans for this city unfold in Abu Dhabi, as reported today by c|net news. So, my question to you readers out there.what are the entrepreneurial opportunities that will need to be uncovered in this new city form? As with the advent of the Wild West and the Gold.

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