By DAVID BIEDERMAN Pictured below is an outcrop (exposed section) of oil-soaked sand. Oil sands are naturally occurring mixtures of sand, clay, and a viscous type of petroleum called bitumen. The brown and grey layers are sand, sandstone, and clay; the black layers are the oil sands. What a contrast it was to hold this crumbling and seemingly useless mixture …
Will We Let the World’s Fastest Passenger Airplane Make it Off the Ground?
Because of governmental barriers to new development and industry, we have become used to living in a society where most of the exciting advancements are in microtechnology–computer chips, smart phones, etc–rather than in macrotechnology: new forms of nuclear power, mass-desalination of water, and, of course the ever-elusive flying car. But what about the flying plane? A year and a half …
Power Hour: Amanda Maxham on the Virtues of GMOs
On this episode of Power Hour I talk with Dr. Amanda Maxham, Research Associate at the Ayn Rand Institute, about the incredible advances in genetic modification–and why our society is responding to them with fear and coercion rather than enthusiasm and freedom. Click here to find the report The Gene Revolution. Check out more of Amanda’s work at the Voices …