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"The province launched its supernet ten years ago with the lofty goal of bringing the World Wide Web to all Albertans, no matter how remote their home, business or school.
But the author of a damning new report says the model is a failure - that rural networks aren't plugged in and need a major overhaul. "
"As urban centres rush to build high-speed broadband networks to keep up with exploding demand, many rural regions are being left behind. Unreliable and expensive connections are costing outlying communities a shot at economic prosperity "
The Municipal District of Greenview is isolated from Alberta's biggest cities geographically -- and technologically. The remote region stretches across 32,000 square kilometres -- making it one of the largest and most sparsely populated areas in the province. It's a place people go to escape big city life. But like many rural communities, it's on the wrong side of the digital divide.
"The world’s first authorized test in people of a therapy derived from human embryonic stem cells has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration.
The clinical trial could offer the first glimpse of the safety and possible effectiveness of a technology that has been hailed for its vast medical promise but also embroiled in political and ethical controversy. "
"Calgary researchers have created a microchip that "communicates" with brain cells, a discovery that could help patients with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. "
"A prototype commercial laser fusion reactor could be up and running by 2020, with power stations based on the technique in place ten years later."
"A common approach for tissue regeneration is cell delivery, for example by direct transplantation of stem or progenitor cells. An alternative, by recruitment of endogenous cells, needs experimental evidence."
"It may be in its infancy, but Alberta’s “clean tech” industry is poised to take a giant step in Red Deer on Sept. 18.
The city has been chosen as the site for the province’s first Clean-tech Industry Conference, with a new Alberta Clean-tech Industry Alliance expected to result."
"A standing joke among physicists has it that a breakthrough in the creation of fusion energy – the same energy that powers the sun – is “always just around the corner”. For the backers of the International Thermonuclear Experiment Reactor (ITER) though, it is no laughing matter."
"Dr Mark Gasson from the University of Reading had a chip inserted in his hand which was then infected with a virus. The device, which enables him to pass through security doors and activate his mobile phone, is a sophisticated version of ID chips used to tag pets."
"New Brunswick premier Shawn Graham is the latest to be recognized by the Intelligent Community Forum after being named visionary of the year for pushing high speed access to rural as well as urban areas of the province."
Once upon a time, human beings oversaw the trading of stocks. They've been replaced by a complex system of computers that can produce a scary new kind of mechanized panic. An investigation into the crash of May 6
"Throughout the history of science, the distinction between revolutionary science and what we can call pathological science has not always been so clear. Both extremes of the spectrum are characterized by a common trait: the ability of a scientist (or a community of scientists) to "think outside the box." But what is the box that they must be outside of?"
"Craig Venter and Hamilton Smith, the two American biologists who unravelled the first DNA sequence of a living organism (a bacterium) in 1995, have made a bacterium that has an artificial genome—creating a living creature with no ancestor"
Industry Canada today announced the launch of the call‑for‑applications process for Broadband Canada: Connecting Rural Canadians. The call for applications follows the formal program launch announced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper on July 30, 2009.
List of contact information for support and staff at the US Depart of Energy Office of Fusion Energy Sciences.
"It is science’s star experiment: an attempt to create an artificial sun on earth — and provide an answer to the world’s impending energy shortage."
"The Alberta Government met with a team of Fusion Energy Proponants to explore the possibility of establishing an Alberta/Canada Fusion Energy Program in the province."
"Before starting the modified REGENESIS Phase IIb study, we un-blinded results from the seven patients who were enrolled in the halted Phase IIb trial. Although these results are not statistically significant, due to the small number of patients, they are encouraging and consistent with the Phase IIa results announced in February of this year."
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