Douglas B. Clark
Douglas Clark is a copywriter and speechwriter with a healthy appetite for all things digital. He has more than 15 years' agency and independent experience in corporate and marketing communication, and his clients come from diverse industries, specializing in anything from financial products and toothpaste to software for the visualization of computational fluid dynamics data. Among his clients are Accenture, American Express, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Hewlett-Packard, and Panasonic.
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Discovery of Rare Earth Deposits May End Dependence on China
Molycorp Minerals announced last week that it has found significant ore deposits containing heavy rare earth elements at its mine in Mountain Pass, CA. It also announced expectations of production in two years.
2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Dan Shechtman
The Royal Swedish Academy of Science has awa
Element #113, Ununtrium: What's the Point?
Electric Cars the Star of Frankfurt Auto Show
The Frankfurt Auto Show earlier this month showed a wide range of electric cars, from small and affordable to high-powered sports and luxurious sports cars. Two noteworthy newcomers stood out. Students at Germany's Technische Universität München presented the Mute, a concept car with an light frame of aluminum and plastic.
Conductive Nanotube Cables Could Advance Renewable Energy and More
Researchers at Rice University have announced a nanotechnology success that could play a significant role in making renewable energy more practical and could contribute to many electrical applications where weight is a factor. The breakthrough: researchers have created carbon nanotubes that are approaching electrical conductivities seen in metal wires, a goal that has been pursued since the 1980s.
Meet May Shek—Featured YP for September
May Shek is September's YP of the month. Read on to learn more about her career at Shell, her first marathon, and even a thing or two most people don't know about her.
Marcellus Shale Gas Volume in Question
The latest debate over Marcellus shale gas isn't about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, but over how much gas there is to be removed. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently published its estimate of gas trapped in Marcellus shale that can be extracted with current technology, but the figures differ dramatically from past estimates.
Solar Canopy Capable of Generating 73,000 Megawatt Hours Annually
Drawing on the inspiration of the Bedouin tent of the Arabian Peninsula, architectural firm Predock Frane has designed Solaris, a solar canopy that drapes a massive area and acts both as a landscape and structure.The structure is entered via a tunnel passage. To make energy generation possible, intelligent solar "balloons" [...]
Solar Umbrellas Will Shade Carbon-Neutral City in Day and Close to Heat at Night
Tattoos as Diagnostic Devices
There's not much sexy—let alone unobtrusive—about many of today's medical monitoring devices, given the many wires and electrodes that are often needed to collect data from a patient. But that may be about to change. A professor of materials science has created an "electronic tattoo" that can monitor various body functions