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Playing The Market For Natural Resource Management
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Nov 21, 2008CSIRO economists are inviting people in Canberra, Sydney and southern NSW to join the Australian Knowledge Exchange (AKX) - an online prediction market which aims to forecast water availability. The AKX has been set up by CSIRO to test whether trading knowledge online can work for natural resource management. "The AKX works like a futures market," says CSIRO economist, Dr Stuart ... read more *New* Comments: 0 Under-fire GM launches 'product offensive' in China 
Shanghai (AFP) Nov 20, 2008US automaker General Motors has begun unveiling an unprecedented number of new models in China, where it has gone on the offensive as it faces bankruptcy at home. GM and its local partners are trying to keep an edge in China, the world's second largest market after the United States, as they exhibit 24 models at this week's Guangzhou International Auto Show. "The vehicles on display are ... read more *New* Comments: 0 Cult spacecraft Part One: The Little Spaceplane That Couldn't 
Honolulu HI (SPX) Dec 04, 2008Some Space Cadets regard the cancellation of the X-20 / Dyna-Soar experimental spaceplane in 1963 as a mistake that deprived the US space program of many advanced technologies. Actually, it was an inefficient and backward-looking vehicle that could never have evolved into an operationally useful design - and this is exactly why it should have been built and flown. ... read more *New* Comments: 0 Teddy take-off: bears launched into space 
London (AFP) Dec 5, 2008Four teddy bears, fully decked out in custom-made spacesuits, were launched to the edge of space this week as part of a British university experiment. Blasting off from Cambridge University's Churchill College on Monday, they were attached to a helium balloon and fitted with multiple cameras, a GPS receiver, flight computer and radio for the two-hour nine-minute flight, which saw them rise ... read more *New* Comments: 0 India, Russia sign nuclear energy, space deals 
New Delhi (AFP) Dec 5, 2008Russia on Friday signed landmark accords with its traditional ally India on issues ranging from nuclear energy to space, as President Dmitry Medvedev met Indian leaders in a bid to bolster ties. The accords covered the building of four new nuclear energy reactors in Kudankulam in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, as well as a cooperation accord on manned space flight. Russia becomes the ... read more *New* Comments: 0 |
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