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Jun 22, 2021

Where Will You Go When a Robot Takes Your Job?

Posted by in categories: economics, education, government, health, robotics/AI

Smart strategies like this can help workers learn to embrace technological change. If the government helps people plan their next move if and when they’re no longer needed in their current job, workers will be able to roll with the economy’s punches more easily. Combined with national health insurance, education and retraining assistance — and a robust unemployment insurance system — it could make terror of job loss a thing of the past.


The U.S. government must assuage people’s anxiety about technology upending their working lives, in part by helping them forge new career paths.

Jun 16, 2021

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott gives away $2.7bn to hundreds of charities

Posted by in category: education

It was the third round of announcements Scott has made regarding her philanthropy, which rivals the largest of foundations. In 2020, she made two similar surprise announcements and donated about $6bn to causes including Covid relief, gender equity, historically Black colleges and universities and other schools.


Ex-wife of Jeff Bezos gives to 286 groups and says she wants to donate ‘fortune that was enabled by systems in need of change’

Jun 16, 2021

Ten years of ancient genome analysis has taught scientists what it means to be human

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, education

A ball of 4000-year-old hair frozen in time tangled around a whalebone comb led to the first ever reconstruction of an ancient human genome just over a decade ago.

Jun 15, 2021

Living in the Post-pandemic USA

Posted by in categories: architecture, automation, education

This article is an excerpt from a report by Partners in Foresight, The Home of the 2020s: Scenarios for How We Might Live in the Post-Pandemic Future.

Scenario Vignette 1: Hotel Life

Hotels and abandoned malls become pandemic-proof senior citizen communities

Travel and retail sectors were never the same after the 2020 disruptions. It was not that they never recovered, but they were never the same.

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Jun 14, 2021

Guys!

Posted by in categories: education, evolution, media & arts, neuroscience

I’m so thrilled to present to you my debut work in documentary filmmaking! You can now watch my new film Consciousness: Evolution of the Mind in its entirety on major networks, such as Vimeo on demand, worldwide.

*Based on my recent book The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution. Enjoy!

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/339083

Jun 14, 2021

Consciousness: Evolution of the Mind

Posted by in categories: education, evolution, media & arts, neuroscience

Guys! I’m so thrilled to present to you my debut work in documentary filmmaking! You can now watch my new film Consciousness: Evolution of the Mind in its entirety on major networks, such as Vimeo on demand, worldwide.

Jun 12, 2021

Google wants to train you to become a UX designer in 6 months — without a college degree. Heres how to make the most of the certificate program and potentially make $84,000 a year

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, education

Google wants to train you to become a UX designer in 6 months — without a college degree. Here’s how to make the most of the certificate program and potentially make $84000 a year.

The US unemployment rate sits at 6.7%. Thanks to COVID-19, millions of Americans are still out there looking for not just a new job but also an entire new career path.

Tech fields like UX design, data analysis, and project management are looking for promising candidates, and Google announced a new career-certificate program to help make them more accessible last summer.

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Jun 10, 2021

Tesla is now looking to hire self-driving car test drivers around the world

Posted by in categories: education, robotics/AI, transportation

Do you want to work for Tesla remotely and test its latest Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features? You may be in luck as we learn that the automaker is now looking to hire self-driving car test drivers around the world.

You don’t even need a college education.

When it comes to Autopilot and Full Self-Driving package features, people often say that Tesla’s own paying customers are the testers and that’s mostly true, but the automaker also does plenty of internal testing.

Jun 5, 2021

Gigadalton-scale DNA origami nanostructures explained

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, computing, education, nanotechnology, neuroscience

Check out this short educational video in which I explain some super exciting research in the area of nanotechnology: gigadalton-scale DNA origami! I specifically discuss a journal article by Wagenbauer et al. titled “Gigadalton-scale shape-programmable DNA assemblies”.


Here, I explain an exciting nanotechnology paper “Gigadalton-scale shape-programmable DNA assemblies” (https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24651).

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May 26, 2021

Nora Super — Milken Institute — Center for the Future of Aging — Alliance to Improve Dementia Care

Posted by in categories: education, finance, life extension, neuroscience, policy, security

Senior director, milken institute center for the future of aging, milken institute; executive director, alliance to improve dementia care.


Nora Super is the Senior Director of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging (CFA) (https://milkeninstitute.org/centers/center-for-the-future-of-aging) and the Executive Director of the Milken Institute Alliance to Improve Dementia Care (https://milkeninstitute.org/centers/center-for-the-future-of…tia-care).

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