Dr. Future News - 3D Mars Live, Fibonacci Solar Panels, Crowd Funding Ignites, Ecstatic Brain Scanning, Bacteria have friends too, the Brains behind the Mind.
Friday, September 28, 2012 
Welcome to the Dr. Future News, where we do our best to keep you abreast of some really interesting stories this week. It’s pretty cool, for example that the NASA scientists are using consumer 3D glasses from Nvidia to roll around on Mars aboard the Curiousity rover. It used to be that NASA drove the development of tech, with inventions as lithium batteries, wireless sensors, to panoramic photography. Now, consumer tech is helping to drive the space program, literally! And in that realm there are rising new inventors, such a 13-year old Aidan Dwyer, who has created a new kind of solar panel, based on his observation of trees.
We also take a look at the world of crowd funding, where more and more people are finding the money for financing their personal projects and dreams. Just this week, Mrs. Future (Sun Marian) spoke on the topic at a Film School in San Francisco, as a way to finance your media productions. It is an amazing up-and-coming field.
Our reporting on the social nature of bacterial colonies and the significance of brain evolution in understanding our minds were also fun to make and share with you, not to mention the report from an intrepid New Scientist journalist inside an fMRI machine while high on MDMA. So enjoy, and you’ll hear from us next week in our new home on KOMY in Santa Cruz!
