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Actually, yeast convert carbohydrates—starches and sugars—to alcohol and carbon dioxide gas. That article is about as plain-english of an explanation as you'll find; and yes, it even confirms that the starches are processed into sugars before being turned into alcohol and CO2. All the yeast can make from a simple sugar (which, aside from starches which the yeast breaks into simple sugars via enzymes, is all yeast can process) is CO2 and alcohol and, since sugar isn't pure carbon, if CO2 is being produced, so it alcohol.

Unless you've discovered a strain of yeast that can transmute matter at the atomic level, in which case you need to apply for some grants to further that line of research.

Your definition of "random" and your understanding of quantum mechanics isn't quite right, although the rest of your post was quite interesting. A thought experiment known as EPR (Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen), followed up by the Stern-Gerlach apparatus and Bell's theorem, actually proved that certain attributes of particles in no way persist between measurements, and that they "choose" outcomes based on a mechanism that is not only unknown, but proven by experiment to be non-describable by deterministic theories.

I was going to spend a while typing up an explanation, but this is a very thorough discussion of all the possibilities that is much better than I could hope to do myself: http://www.scienceclarified.co...

While computer screen models and VR goggles can never be holograms, the projection onto glass he shows off is one step away:

Holography is a technique which enables three-dimensional images to be made. It involves the use of a laser, interference, diffraction, light intensity recording and suitable illumination of the recording. The image changes as the position and orientation of the viewing system changes in exactly the same way as if the object were still present, thus making the image appear three-dimensional. (from wikipedia)

So if changing your viewing perspective allowed you to see the object projected onto glass at different angles, this would be legit.

For a nice quick read on the subject, click me!

While none of these facts makes this work in its current state anything more than passively interesting in a practical sense, conceptually this has a lot going on and if future iterations arise, it may well be the engineering breakthrough he's touting. This is like alpha version 0.0.1 - As far as waving your hands and arms around all day, if in the future this can be made into a superior interface, perhaps a lightweight exoskeleton of the future could assist. We are already going cyborg so it's not unthinkable.

Better have another look at your biology textbook.

The common cold is so hard to eradicate precisely because it mutates (evolves) all the time. Each cold you get is another variant, some from the hundreds that have been around a long time, others that appear via mutation.

http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/virus/page.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311854,00.html
http://www.scienceclarified.com/Ti-Vi/Virus.html ...and more...

Your claim that we have "10 times more nukes than required to wipe out life on Earth" is ridiculous. Worldwide megatonnage is roughly something less than 10,000 MT. The estimated energy of the K-T event is 100,000,000 MT, and it did not come close to "wiping out life on Earth". Sucked for the dinosaurs.

Nuclear Stockpiles: World Summary
When Comets and Asteroids Strike Earth

Please show me a photo of HIV

>> Liquified gasses can exist at any temperature. The higher the pressure, the higher the boiling point of the liquid.

Nope. There is a maximum temperature at which gases can exist as a liquid. Check out the concept of critical temperature and critical pressure, and phase diagrams. Above a temperature of -118.4C there simply is no such thing as liquid oxygen.

http://www.scienceclarified.com/Ga-He/Gases-Liquef action-of.html