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  Global GDP is $94 Trillion. Visualizing the $94 Trillion World  How do you foresee the GDP numbers of Europe/China/Japan/India/the US in the next 5 years?   Source: Visual Capitalist.

  The federal government is promoting funding opportunities for researchers to study the benefits and risks of marijuana for cancer patients. In a notice of special interest posted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Thursday, the agency said that about one in four cancer patients have reported using cannabis products to manage their symptoms—including anorexia, nausea, and pain—but “research about their health effects, including potential harms and benefits, remain limited.” NIH’s National Cancer Institute said that the purpose of the solicitation is to “promote research in understanding the mechanisms by which cannabis and cannabinoids affect cancer biology, cancer interception, cancer treatment and resistance, and management of cancer symptoms.” It provided an overview of the existing research into the relationship between marijuana and cancer, as well as a list of eight areas of interest that the agency is asking researchers to investigate. NIH said that the current body

Compared to conventional plastics, the new material has an excellent heat resistance with the longest flame blocking duration in the world. In-house test results show that the material prevented flame propagation for over 400 seconds above 1,000 degrees Helps secure the time required for evacuating drivers and suppressing fire. The mass-production system is fully established, beginning a full-scale production starting 2023 The material will be applied to various industries based on the supply of battery pack covers Steven Kim (Senior VicePresident/ Division Leader, Engineering Materials Division. Advanced Materials), “Continued research for over a decade to solve our customer’s pain points have turned out to be tremendously meaningful.” “Based on the world’s best compounding technology, LG Chem plans to continue its R&D and invest in mass production to lead a fast-growing e-Mobility market.”   LG Chem plans to target the market with its recent development of battery pack plastic ma

  The U.K.’s NCC with partners B&M Longworth and Cygnet Texkimp achieve continuous carbon fiber recovery in a significant first step to delivering sustainable composite pressure vessels for the hydrogen market.   Engineers at the  National Composites Centre  (Bristol, U.K.), the U.K.’s center of excellence for advanced composite applications, along with British SME partners  B&M Longworth  (Edgworth, U.K.) and  Cygnet Texkimp  (Northwich, Cheshire, U.K.), have successfully reclaimed continuous carbon fibers from a whole pressure vessel and re-used them to manufacture a new pressure vessel. This is reported to be the first time this process has been achieved in the U.K. and represents a significant milestone in the development of Britain’s hydrogen capability.  As hydrogen has low energy density, the NCC says, it needs to be compressed and stored at very high pressures, between 350-700 bar (5,076-10,152 psi).  This makes high-strength, lower-weight carbon fiber the material of c

Dunning-Kruger effect: People with low ability tend to overestimate themselves. On the other hand, high performers have a tendency to underestimate their skills. Overcoming the Dunning-Kruger effect Take time to reflect. Some people feel more confident when they make decisions quickly, but snap decisions can lead to errors of judgment. ... See learning as a way forward. ... Challenge your own beliefs. ... Change your reasoning. ... Learn from feedback. Beware of this effect when you are starting a new business.

  The World Economic Forum reported that  #China  had 4.7 million recent STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) graduates in 2016.  #India , another academic powerhouse, had 2.6 million new  #STEM  graduates while the U.S. had 568,000. Chinese STEM graduates outnumber US STEM grads 8.2 to 1. The gap is going to become even wider. Even modest predictions see the number of 25 to 34-year-old graduates in China rising by a further 300% by 2030, compared with an increase of around 30% expected in  #Europe  and the  #UnitedStates . By 2030, China and India could account for more than 60% of the STEM graduates in major economies, compared with only 8% in Europe and 4% in the United States. China has been building the equivalent of almost one university per week. For decades, the United States had the highest proportion of people going to university and dominated the graduate market. https://lnkd.in/enMe9zMw  from the "Human Capital Report 2016" by WEF

Scattered across our Milky Way galaxy are tens of millions of black holes — immensely strong gravitational wells of spacetime, from which infalling matter, and even light, can never escape. Black holes are dark by definition, except on rare occasions when they feed. As a black hole pulls in gas and dust from an orbiting star, it can give off spectacular bursts of X-ray light that bounce and echo off the inspiraling gas, briefly illuminating a black hole’s extreme surroundings. Now MIT astronomers are looking for flashes and echoes from nearby black hole X-ray binaries — systems with a star orbiting, and occasionally being eaten away by a black hole. They are analyzing the echoes from such systems to reconstruct a black hole’s immediate, extreme vicinity. In a study appearing today in the Astrophysical Journal, the researchers report using a new automated search tool, which they’ve coined the “Reverberation Machine,” to comb through satellite data for signs of black hole echoes. In thei