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Konzerne tun alles, um Arbeitsplätze abzuschaffen

By Guest PostDecember 8, 2013Economyarbeitsplatz, europas, gas, klartext, konzern, nzz, oel, rohstoffe, steuer, strom, urs p gasche, zinsen

Steuergeschenke und Tiefstzinsen sollen Unternehmen zum Investieren bringen. Das schaffe Arbeitsplätze. Unsinn.

Die Bevölkerung soll schlucken, dass Unternehmen nur wenig Steuern zahlen und diese im nationalen und internationalen «Steuerwettbewerb» erst noch optimieren, beziehungsweise vermeiden können. Und die Bevölkerung soll schlucken, dass sie auf ihrem Gesparten keine Zinsen mehr bekommt, selbst wenn sie es brav und sicher auf Sparkonten anlegt.

Denn tiefe Steuern und tiefe Zinsen sollen es den Unternehmen ermöglichen, grosse Gewinne zu machen und mit diesen viel zu investieren, also neue Maschinen zu kaufen, neue Produktionsstätten zu eröffnen oder Dienstleistungsbetriebe auszubauen. Dank solcher Investitionen entstünden viele neue Arbeitsplätze. Das Schaffen von Arbeitsplätzen ist das angebliche Ziel der Steuergeschenke und Tiefstzinsen. (more…)

IBM Research to Accelerate Big Data Discovery

By Guest PostOctober 10, 2013Technologyagriculture, big data discovery, data, drug development, gas, ibm research, jeff welser, laura haas, mining, natural resources industries, oil, predictive maintenance, quintillion bytes, social analytics, social media

New lab unifies data, expertise and novel analytics to speed discovery in industries including retail, medicine and finance

San Jose, Calif. – 10 Oct 2013: Scientists from IBM today announced the Accelerated Discovery Lab, a new collaborative environment specifically targeted at helping clients find unknown relationships from disparate data sets.

The workspace includes access to diverse data sources, unique research capabilities for analytics such as domain models, text analytics and natural language processing capabilities derived from Watson, a powerful hardware and software infrastructure, and broad domain expertise including biology, medicine, finance, weather modeling, mathematics, computer science and information technology. This combination reduces time to insight resulting in business impact – cost savings, revenue generation and scientific impact – ahead of the traditional pace of discovery. (more…)

Galaxy’s Ring of Fire

By Guest PostMay 19, 2013Scienceastronomers, Galaxy, gas, johnny cash, messier 94, NASA, optical illusion, ring of fire, spiral arms, spitzer space telescope, star formation, starburst ring

Johnny Cash may have preferred this galaxy’s burning ring of fire to the one he sang about falling into in his popular song. The “starburst ring” seen at center in red and yellow hues is not the product of love, as in the song, but is instead a frenetic region of star formation.

The galaxy, a spiral beauty called Messier 94, is located about 17 million light-years away. In this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, infrared light is represented in different colors, with blue having the shortest wavelengths and red, the longest. (more…)

Paper Offers Framework for Amazon Oil and Gas Development

By Guest PostMay 12, 2013Environment, Generalamazonian hydrocarbon exploration, amazonian region, analysis, bill powers, blue moon fund, clinton jenkins, critical ecosystems, cultural diversity, dynamic hydrocarbon zones, earth, emergency, environmental state, erd, etech international, extended reach drilling, future conflicts, gas, key component, matt finer, national geographic society, negative impact, north Carolina, northern peru, oil, production, state university, technique, tropical forest environment, vital watersheds, western amazon

Oil and gas development continues to press into the most remote corners of the western Amazon, one of the most biologically and culturally diverse zones on Earth. Now a study proposes a new 10-point, best-practice framework that combines technical engineering criteria with consideration of ecological and social concerns to reduce the negative impacts of Amazonian hydrocarbon exploration and production.

The researchers say, for example, that by using extended reach drilling (ERD), a technique to reach a larger subsurface area from one surface drilling location, it is possible to greatly reduce the total number of needed drilling platforms and access roads for a given project. (more…)

Hidden Dangers in the Air We Breathe

By Guest PostMay 10, 2013Environment, Healthacrolein, air quality, air we breathe, average american, berkeley lab, brett singer, california, cardiovascular systems, chronic exposure, daly, factories, fine particles, gas, health hazards, hidden dangers, indoor air pollutants, indoor air quality, max sherman, micrometers in diameter, phillip price, respiratory, title 24, united states, urban environment, us population, vehicles, world health organization, world war

Berkeley Lab researchers work on new building standards after discovering previously unknown indoor air pollutants.

For decades, no one worried much about the air quality inside people’s homes unless there was secondhand smoke or radon present. Then scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) made the discovery that the aggregate health consequences of poor indoor air quality are as significant as those from all traffic accidents or infectious diseases in the United States. One major source of indoor pollutants in the home is cooking.

The Berkeley Lab scientists are now working on turning those research findings into science-based solutions, including better standards for residential buildings and easier ways to test for the hazardous pollutants. These efforts are the result of a paper published in Environmental Health Perspectives in 2012 that described a new method for estimating the chronic health impact of indoor air pollutants. That research uncovered two pollutants that previously had not been recognized as a cause for concern—fine particles and a gas called acrolein. (more…)

JILA Physicists Achieve Elusive ‘Evaporative Cooling’ of Molecules

By Guest PostDecember 30, 2012Scienceatoms, bec, bose einstein condensate, boulder, chemical reaction, colorado, control, cool atoms, cup of coffee, electromagnetic pulses, energy state, evaporative cooling, gas, hydrogen atom, hydroxyl radicals, jila, jila theorist, john bohn, jun ye, magnetic fields, millikelvin, mk, molecules, novel way, oh, oh molecules, oxygen atom, physicists, potassium, potassium rubidium molecules, quantum simulators, reactive molecules, rubidium atoms, ultracold chemistry, university

Achieving a goal considered nearly impossible, JILA physicists have chilled a gas of molecules to very low temperatures by adapting the familiar process by which a hot cup of coffee cools.

JILA is a joint institute of the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology located on the CU-Boulder campus. (more…)

Exploding Star Missing From Formation of Solar System

By Guest PostDecember 16, 2012ScienceChicago, cosmic cloud, decay, energetic atom, exploding star, formation, gas, haolan tang, iron 60, meteorite, NASA, nicolas dauphas, notion, radioactive isotope, solar system, solar system material, spitzer space telescope, stellar explosion, supernova, time, university

A new study published by University of Chicago researchers challenges the notion that the force of an exploding star prompted the formation of the solar system.

In this study, published online last month in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, authors Haolan Tang and Nicolas Dauphas found the radioactive isotope iron 60 — the telltale sign of an exploding star—low in abundance and well mixed in solar system material. As cosmochemists, they look for remnants of stellar explosions in meteorites to help determine the conditions under which the solar system formed. (more…)

USGS Study Tracks Pacific Walrus, Observes Effects of Arctic Sea Ice Loss on Behavior

By Guest PostNovember 15, 2012Environment, NatureArctic, Arctic sea ice, behavioral change, chukchi sea, ecosystems, feeding grounds, female walrus, gas, geoffrey haskett, hanna shoal region, iconic arctic species, lease blocks, marcia mcnutt, marine mammals, melting, mortality, northern, oil, pacific walruses, polar bears, russian scientists, s a sonsthagen, sea ice, summer, trampling, U.S. Geological Survey, walrus population

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sparse summer sea ice in the Arctic over the past five years has caused behavioral changes in Pacific walruses according to research published by U.S. Geological Survey and Russian scientists. The effects on the walrus population are unknown.

“The loss of sea ice is the ‘why’ for the change in walrus behavior; the tracking data tells us the ‘where’ in terms of their new forage patterns,” said USGS Director Marcia McNutt. “What awaits to be seen is ‘how much will it matter?'” (more…)

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