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** Dr. Kaku is currently appearing on the Discovery Channel’s series How the Universe Works
** If you fly American Airlines, read the July issue of the American Way Magazine, where there is a profile of Dr. Kaku.
** Dr. Kaku will be hosting a new science series on the Science Channel next year.
** See BigThink.com, for his latest blog on the Higgs boson. Also, see his recent op-ed piece in last month’s Wall Street Journal.

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Europe Preparing for Most Detailed Examination of the Sun to Date (The Takeaway Radio Interview)

The Sun photographed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA 304) of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. (Photo by NASA/SDO.)

The European Space Agency this week is expected to begin formal and final preparations to launch the Solar Orbiter space probe, which will be launched toward the sun in about five years, orbiting within the orbit of Mercury. It’ll be the closest trip to the sun by any Earth-launched space probe and is expected to provide vast amounts of new data.

Read the Full Article and Listen to the Radio Interview via The Takeaway Website or Listen by Using the Embedded Player Located at the Bottom

Hopefully, though, in the next five years, we’ll know a lot more. That’s when the Solar Orbiter is set to launch. A project of the European Space Agency, the Solar Orbiter will get closer to the sun than any satellite to date. The journey to the sun will take years, even once the probe is built and launched.

“There are so many gaps in our knowledge of the sun. We’ve mapped practically every square mile of the planet Mars, we know more about Mars than the surface of the Earth in fact. But the sun constantly changes. It’s not made out of a solid surface at all. It’s made out of plasma, roughly 75 percent hydrogen and 25 percent helium. That’s why this probe is so important — because it will travel inside the orbit of Mercury, where no other space probe has gone before.”
— Michio Kaku

(ABC News: Good Morning America) James Cameron, Google Executives, Billionaires to Mine for Asteroids?

ABCNews.com: Film director James Cameron, Google’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, X Prize founder Peter Diamandis and billionaire Ross Perot Jr. along with a number of other incredible minds plan to take on outer space. Just what they’re up to is still a mystery but they’ve announced that they’re forming a new “space exploration company to expand earth’s resource base,” that will create “a new industry and a new definition of natural resources.”

“If you put two Google billionaires with Microsoft billionaires with some astronauts together, you can’t go wrong. I think private enterprise will boldly go where governments fear to tread. And I think the space program has been in purgatory in the last few years. NASA is an agency to nowhere. So, we need private enterprise, especially people with deep pockets to help jump start the program and maybe mining the heavens is just the ticket.”  – Michio Kaku

Read the Full Article on the ABC News website @ http://abcn.ws/KchKll

PCMag.com Q&A with Dr. Kaku — Where Are Our Flying Cars?

After some 80 years of empty promises, faulty predictions, countless science fiction films and comic books, and a rather famous animated TV series from the 1960s, Terrafugia may be the first company to develop and produce an actual flying car. Never mind that it costs $279,000 for now—the point is that it exists, and that so far, it seems to actually work.

To get some expert opinion and much-needed perspective here at PCMag, we asked Dr. Michio Kaku, esteemed theoretical physicist and best-selling author of Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100, for his take on Terrafugia and flying cars in general.

Read the full PCMag.com Q&A with Dr. Kaku by visiting their website @ http://bit.ly/IYzih4

The WSJ Weekend Interview with Michio Kaku — Captain Michio and the World of Tomorrow

The Wall Street Journal – The Weekend Interview (A version of this article appeared March 10, 2012, on page A11 in some U.S. editions of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline:

Captain Michio and the World of Tomorrow: Humans are born with the curiosity of scientists but switch to investment banking by Brian Bolduc (former Robert L. Bartley fellow at the Journal, is an editorial associate for National Review)

By 2020, the word “computer” will have vanished from the English language, physicist Michio Kaku predicts. Every 18 months, computer power doubles, he notes, so in eight years, a microchip will cost only a penny. Instead of one chip inside a desktop, we’ll have millions of chips in all our possessions: furniture, cars, appliances, clothes. Chips will become so ubiquitous that “we won’t say the word ‘computer,'” prophesies Mr. Kaku, a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York. “We’ll simply turn things on.”

Mr. Kaku, who is 65, enjoys making predictions. In his latest book, “Physics of the Future,” which Anchor released in paperback in February, he predicts driverless cars by 2020 and synthetic organs by 2030. If his forecasts sound strange, Mr. Kaku understands the skepticism. “If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100,” he offers, “you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods.” Nonetheless, he says, “that’s where we’re headed,” —and he worries that the U.S. will fall behind in this technological onrush.

To comprehend the world we’re entering, consider another word that will disappear soon: “tumor.” “We will have DNA chips inside our toilet, which will sample some of our blood and urine and tell us if we have cancer maybe 10 years before a tumor forms,” Mr. Kaku says. When you need to see a doctor, you’ll talk to a wall in your home, and “an animated, artificially intelligent doctor will appear.” You’ll scan your body with a hand-held MRI machine, the “Robodoc” will analyze the results, and you’ll receive “a diagnosis that is 99 percent accurate.”

— Continue Reading the Full Article on The Wall Street Journal (The Weekend Interview) where you can join in on the discussion —

Original Article (WSJ: The Weekend Interview) by Brian Bolduc, a former Robert L. Bartley fellow at the Journal, is an editorial associate for National Review — Original Imagery by Ken Fallin

Doubleday Books Facebook Sweepstakes (Win Two Books About the Hidden Designs of Our World)

Doubleday Books has launched a contest on their Facebook Fanpage for the opportunity to win two books about the hidden designs of our world. The details are simple: Become a Fan of the Doubleday Books fanpage by Clicking LIKE and Enter the Sweepstakes on the landing page. Only persons residing in United States who are at least 13 years of age can enter. Sweepstakes Ends on February 15, 2012 @ 12:00 pm (EST).

Five lucky winners will win two books on the cutting edge of physical & natural science, Physics of the Future, by Michio Kaku, and Design in Nature, by Adrian Bejan.

Last Ten Blog Posts from Dr. Kaku’s Universe (Big Think Blog)

For your convenience, here is a list of the last ten blog entries from Dr. Kaku’s blog (Dr. Kaku’s Universe) hosted at Big Think. Be sure to leave your questions in the comment sections below each blog entry as Dr. Kaku will be periodically answering questions from fans. Stay tuned for more updates!

• MARS Updates Including The Curiosity Rover, The Flow of Liquid Water and Possible Manned Missions
• Has the Brain Drain of Top Scientists Caused the US to Lose Its Edge?
• What Killed the Dinosaurs? The Mystery Continues to Deepen…
• Dr. Kaku Attending the LIVE Panel Discussion for Transcendent Man – A Conversation About the Future and How You Can Participate
• Preparing for the 100 Year Storm and Wondering if the Three Simultaneous Nuclear Crises are an Accident? (Part 2/2)
• United States Hit With a Triple Nuclear Threat – How Dangerous is it? (Part 1/2)
• The Ancient Greeks and the First Total Lunar Eclipse of 2011
• Three-Month Update of Fukushima Accident and the Flood of New Information Coming Out
• Physicists Discover New Forms of Matter & Add to the Periodic Table
• We Will Become Like the Gods We Once Feared

You’ve Got Michio Kaku – AOL Video

The AOL You’ve Got Series: Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku talks about how science fiction will one day become reality — http://aol.it/rbcFMT (7/6/11)

Read and Share the Last 10 Blog Posts on Dr. Kaku’s Universe

4/15 Appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) to Discuss Nuclear Crisis in Japan

4/15 appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) to discuss the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan and what the utility is doing to combat the issue.

Appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman (The Nuclear Crisis in Japan)

What are the best-and-worst-case scenarios for the nuclear crisis in Japan? Theoretical physics professor and author Dr. Michio Kaku shares his opinions with David Letterman on The Late Show.

Read and Share the Last 10 Blog Posts on Dr. Kaku’s Universe!

Secret Life of Scientists & Engineers (NOVA Science Now-PBS)

The Secret Life of Scientists & Engineers with Michio Kaku – NOVA Science Now on PBS.

Video Clips include: The Theory of Everything, 10 Questions for Michio, You can Spin Forever & 30 Second Science with Michio Kaku.

The Last 10 Blog Entries from Dr. Kaku’s Universe (Hosted by BigThink.com) 01/27 – 01/05

WSJ: Another Earth in Outer Space?

Astronomers using NASA’s space-based Kepler Telescope may be close to finding the first Earth-like planets in outer space, potentially capable of supporting life. Such a discovery could change the way we view our place in the universe. WSJ’s Michael Kofsky reports.