Facebook has been in the news frequently of late for privacy issues that make people wary of the social networking giant. Facebook is doing something very cool with a pair of new observatories that are being built on Mount Wilson in California. These won’t be used to house giant telescopes that scan the skies for science.
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Progress Photo
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Primo 3M+ is a prototype future body, a conceptual design with superlongevity in mind. Primo by design is multi-functional. It is reliable, changeable, upgradeable, and complete with enhanced senses. Primo is the new designer body.
Originally posted 2002 and excerpted from www.natasha.cc/primo.htm. Published on KurzweilAI.net February 20, 2002.
If you could design your own body–give it any shape, size, color, contour, texture and elegant design–what would you choose?
Utopistics, explained
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Utopistics is an emerging field in political science, dealing with the creation of an alternative social system or civilization with different values and priorities from the dominant ones today. Learn about it with this video:
Is there a viable alternative to the neoliberal economic consensus?
Is the nationalism and protectionism of Trump and similar politicians the only alternative?
Is another world possible?
Shailesh Prasad added a new photo
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Prince Philip’s driving days don’t appear to be numbered just yet after a replacement Land Rover was delivered to him today — less than 24 hours after his horror smash.
The black Freelander — an exact replica of the one Philip wrote-off yesterday — was driven off the back of a lorry and into Sandringham at around Midday.
The Duke of Edinburgh, 97, who had to be pulled from the wreckage, told police he had been ‘dazzled by the sun’ before the collision near the Norfolk estate at 2.45pm yesterday.