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Space Quotes to Ponder
“The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don’t have a space program, it’ll serve us right!”
Larry Niven, quoted by Arthur Clarke in interview at space.com, 2001.
Quotations collected by Sylvia Engdahl about why expansion into space is vital to the future survival of humankind, many of them from well-known people.
Scientists call for ban on autonomous killer robots
Good luck with that.
GRAUBUNDEN, SWITZERLAND – The world must act quickly to avert a future in which autonomous robots with artificial intelligence roam the battlefields killing humans, scientists and arms experts warned at an elite gathering in the Swiss Alps.
Rules must be agreed to prevent the development of such weapons, they said at a January 19–23 meeting of billionaires, scientists and political leaders in the snow-covered ski resort of Davos.
Angela Kane, the German UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs from 2012–2015, said the world had been slow to take pre-emptive measures to protect humanity from the lethal technology.
The 21st Century Philosophers — By Melanie Ruiz | OZY
““If you think it’s too early to think about something, it’s probably slightly too late.””
Post-transcriptional control of gene expression: mRNA decay
Could we actually start seeing some standards around CRISPR being proposed & implemented around CRISPR?
Bethesda, MD –This SRC will present the very latest developments in this field, with talks by leading international experts working with both prokaryotic and eukaryotic models. This unique blend from the two communities is always much appreciated by attendees of this meeting and one of its main highlights. The topics covered will include events occurring at both the 5’ and 3’ ends of mRNA related to decay, the links between translation, quality control and mRNA stability, and the relationship between RNA degradation and disease. Two full sessions will be devoted to mechanisms of sRNA, CRISPR RNA and miRNA regulation and how they pertain to mRNA stability. The meeting is traditionally of a very manageable size (typically about 120 attendees), providing unrestricted access to students and post-docs for dynamic discussions with more established scientists and potential future employers. Informal Meet the Expert sessions will be held over lunch, with assigned tables to selected speakers.
There will be a total of 9 very broad-ranging sessions over the 4 days, with 36 invited speakers at the top of their fields and two internationally renowned keynote speakers, Chris Lima and Jörg Vogel. Speakers are encouraged to present their most recent and unpublished data. There will be two poster sessions and 2–3 additional speakers per session will be chosen to give oral presentations, based on the submitted abstracts. This promises to be a very interesting and lively meeting in one of Europe’s most beautiful cities. We hope to see you there!
FASEB has announced a total of 36 Science Research Conferences (SRC) in 2016. Registration opens January 7, 2016. For more information about an SRC, view preliminary programs, or find a listing of all our 2016 SRCs, please visit http://www.faseb.org/SRC.
In memory of Marvin Minsky
Nice tribute.
Marvin Minsky at One Laptop per Child office, Cambridge Mass. 2008 (credit: Bcjordan/Wikimedia Commons)
Ray Kurzweil, January 25, 2016
When I was fourteen I wrote Marvin Minsky a letter asking to meet with him. He invited me to visit him at MIT and he spent hours with me as if he had nothing else to do.
When my daughter Amy was about eleven and we went out for a meal at the Harvest Restaurant in Cambridge with my wife Sonya and his wife Gloria, Amy and Marvin built a large structure on the restaurant table using all of the silverware, experimenting with different ways that the utensils could create stable structures.
Will Humans Be Obsolete After The New Industrial Revolution?
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The world has undergone three industrial revolutions that have dramatically impacted the way we live. So what will happen during the fourth industrial revolution?
The Future of Jobs Employment, Skills and Workforce Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
http://www3.weforum.org/docs/Media/WEF_Future_of_Jobs_embargoed.pdf
“Today, we are on the cusp of a Fourth Industrial Revolution.”
Fourth industrial revolution set to benefit richest, UBS report says.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/19/fourth-indus…eport-says
“The richest stand to gain more from the introduction of new technology than those in poorer sections of society, according to a report which warns that policymakers may be required to intervene to tackle the widening inequality.”
The Third Great Wave.
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Intensive instrument playing can trigger movement disorders
Dystonia can be triggered because you’re in a rock band? That’s a new one for me.
Scientists from Germany have investigated the possible causes that may trigger movement disorders.