美國商業周刊報導，以 Google 為首的科技公司紛紛提撥大筆資金，投資新興企業。
報導指出，Google 正積極投資、收編矽谷有潛力的新事業，甚至向印度新創科技業者注資。據了解，Google 對這些新事業投資約 50 萬美元，但過沒多久就買下這些投資標的。一名創投業者說，這種作法與傳統創投作法截然不同，後者通常是長期多次分批投資，最後才收割成果。
許多創投業者猜測，Google 投資時可能會一併簽訂獨家合約，使新創公司想要出售時，Google 有優先權買下，阻擋其他創投公司介入出價的空間。Google 也大舉招募金融專家，協助運用手頭 45 億美元現金。
根據 PwC 會計諮詢公司與美國創投業者協會 (NVCA) 統計，本業不是投資公司的企業，今年上半年在美國共投資 390 個創投案，總值 13 億美元，比去年同期成長 30%，是自 2001 年網路泡沫破滅以來，企業界最大一波創投風潮。
其中 Intel (英特爾) 對美國的新創公司投資 1.12 億美元，領先群倫。Motorola (摩托羅拉)則是在上半年投入 3,000 億美元創投資本。Cisco (思科)、Qualcomm (高通)、SAP (思愛普)等科技大廠也積極投入創投事業。
目前最成功的創投案例是 VMWare 公司 IPO (上市案)。英特爾當初投資 2 億美元，現在這些股權價值三倍以上。思科也投資 1.5 億美元，同享股價狂飆的豐收成果。
企業再度掀起創投風，一方面是為了布局成長迅速的印、中、俄等新興市場，一方面是股東開始願意承擔較高的風險。藥廠在這方面動作積極，NVCA 的統計顯示，Novartis (諾華)與 Johnson Johnson (嬌生)也名列創投投資大戶之林。
Source: http://udn.com/NEWS/FINANCE/
Ecological Homeostasis
Are We Short of Water and Food ??
- Meteorite Asteroid Impact On Earth Doomsday 2012
- Nasa Climate Report
- Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chief of UN IPCC on a Win-Win Situation for the Planet: Go Vegetarian!
- 20 Questions About Vegetarianism
...Excess protein consumption can cause a variety of problems including bone mineral loss, kidney damage, and dehydration. Your body can only use so much protein, the excess is either broken down through oxidization, placing an enormous strain on the kidneys, or it is stored as body fat. Neither option is particularly desirable...
http://www.lovinghut.com/
Since the vegetarian diet is the most effective solution to global warming, under Supreme Master Ching Hai's guidance, members of The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association recently opened a chain of Loving Hut vegetarian restaurants around the world, in the United States, Japan, Indonesia, Au Lac and Formosa. These places provide affordable and high-quality vegetarian delicacies to the public, bringing a positive impact on the food and beverage industry...
Meat or vegetables? Independent online (SA)
A recent study has revealed that giving up meat could drastically reduce one's carbon footprint. A diet with meat is responsible for producing in a year (as many) greenhouse gases as driving a mid-sized car for 4,758 km, the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW) said last week. But the food a vegetarian consumes in (the same period of time) is responsible for generating (gases only) as driving for 2,427km, the IOeW said in a study commissioned by independent consumer protection group Foodwatch...
Vegetarian Shoes And Bags
The term pleather ("plastic leather") is a slang term for synthetic leather made out of plastic, a portmanteau of plastic and leather, the term can be either descriptive, or derogatory, depending upon the user (the derogatory use implies use as a substitute for genuine animal hide leather to cut costs)...
From All Corners of the Galaxy
Which Stars Are You From?
- Galactic Highway - The Wormhole
- Stream of Time
Wormholes are a valid consequence of Einstein's general relativity view on the universe. A wormhole, in theory, acts as a shortcut or tunnel through space and time. There are several versions on the same theme (i.e. wormholes may link different universes; they may link the two separate locations in the same universe; they may even link black and white holes together), but the physics is similar, wormholes create a link two locations in space-time, bypassing normal three dimensional travel through space. Also, it is theorized, that matter can travel through some wormholes fuelling sci-fi stories like in the film Stargate or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
If wormholes do exist however, it is highly unlikely that you'll find a handy key to open the mouth of a wormhole in your back yard, they are likely to be very elusive and you'll probably need some specialist equipment to travel through them (although this will be virtually impossible).
Alexander Shatskiy, from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, has an idea how these wormholes may be observed. For a start, they can be distinguished from black holes, as wormhole mouths do not have an event horizon.
Secondly, if matter could possibly travel through wormholes, light certainly can, but the light emitted will have a characteristic angular intensity distribution. If we were viewing a wormhole's mouth, we would be witness to a circle, resembling a bubble, with intense light radiating from the inside "rim". Looking toward the center, we would notice the light sharply dim. At the center we would notice no light, but we would see right through the mouth of the wormhole and see stars (from our side of the universe) shining straight through.
Source:http://www.universetoday.com/
Plato argued that time is constant - it's life that's the illusion. Galileo shrugged over the philosophy of time and figured out how to plot it on a graph so he could get on with the important physics.
Albert Einstein said that time is just another dimension, a fourth one to go along with the up-down, side-side, forward-back we move through every day. Our understanding of time, Einstein said, is based on its relationship to our environment.
Weirdly, the faster you travel, the slower time moves. (Is it truely weird? Not quite!!) The most radical interpretation of his theory: Past, present, and future are merely figments of our imagination, constructs built by our brains so that everything doesn't seem to happen at once.
Source: http://www.socialtext.net/
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