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...anyone can change that, it's Angela Belcher. A materials scientist and bioengineer at M.I.T., Belcher, 49, won a MacArthur Foundation genius grant in 2004, and last fall Scientific American named her research leader of the year for her current project: creating an entirely new kind of battery, not by building it but by growing it. Working with several M.I.T. colleagues, Belcher has engineered a virus, known as M13 bacteriophage, that latches onto and coats itself with bits of inorganic materials, including gold and cobalt oxide. That turns each long, tubular virus into what amounts to a minuscule length...
...assistant professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of History of Art and Architecture, who spearheaded the effort to bring the exhibit to Harvard. “Artists liked it in the ’70s because they weren’t considered precious objects.”The project contains approximately 700 works of video art, all on VHS tapes and cataloged by title and artist name, available for free to watch in the gallery or to check out and watch at home.Longtime collaborators Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle first put together the video rental project...
Gehry also emphasized the importance of teamwork in the project...
...Motaki Terai, the project's engineering manager, assures me that bumpiness won't be an issue: "People will be able to drink hot coffee when we start commercial service." But that day may be a long time coming, because the maglev is as costly as it is speedy. Japan Rail (JR) Central, the ex-public company that operates the country's main shinkansen artery, has already spent nearly $2 billion developing the maglev. Building an operational line that would cover the 342 miles between Tokyo and Osaka -Japan's most heavily traveled rail route - would cost an estimated $70 billion...
...Rational objections have rarely stopped massive Japanese infrastructure projects in the past - hence that huge debt - and Terai insists that the maglev makes technological and financial sense. "For us as a company and Japan as a country, this is a 21st century project," he says. "We need speed." A nation that already rides the bullet won't be satisfied with anything less...