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Jan 27, 2017
These two women kept their hair through chemotherapy thanks to cold caps
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: biotech/medical
Jan 27, 2017
Mass-produced tomatoes are infamous for their bland, disappointing flavour
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: futurism
Jan 27, 2017
Vertical Farming Brings Fresh Produce to Cities
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: food, sustainability
Jan 27, 2017
Scientists Find the Real Fountain of Youth — Inside Our DNA
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: life extension
Jan 27, 2017
The Potential of Artificial Intelligence Will Outweigh the Dangers
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: robotics/AI
Jan 27, 2017
While the world apparently burns and social media makes billions of people crazy, here’s some truths for you this morning: Robots are partying it up (see pic) as the technology side of the stock market hit an all-time high this week
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: finance, transhumanism
No other metric of the state of #transhumanism (or science) says more than a healthy technology stock market. Complain all you want, but the smart money knows what’s happening. And smart money begets innovation—and innovation improves lives. Also, Obama in his 2nd term was a poor ad seller for media—it’s because he was stable and offered few surprises. However Trump (and his dramatic actions) might save and transform the entire media industry, as press bash and explore him relentlessly (and make a fortune in ads doing so as liberals and conservatives eat it up and fight over it all). However, always remember, media companies, whether they’re liberal or conservative, do not exist to serve you and deliver news, but to sell ads to shareholders (like Facebook too which is also near an all time high in stock price) so they can get richer. Media companies that were once struggling are doing better now. I’m not taking sides on any of these issues…I’m just reminding you of a few simple truths on how the world works. Have a nice day!
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Jan 26, 2017
Planets Around Wolf 1061 Key To Understanding ‘Venus’
Posted by Bruce Dorminey in categories: climatology, space
The inner edge of the habitable zone is the dividing line between peaches and cream and all out hell. Venus has likely seen both. The study of exo-solar systems like Wolf 1061 is key to understanding our own Venus.
New observations of the nearby star Wolf 1061, some 14 light years distant in Ophiuchus — already known to harbor three super-earths — should help planetary scientists better understand what went wrong with our own Venus.
Turns out hellishly-hot Venus-like worlds are quite common and early in the history of any given planetary system, such close-in terrestrial mass planets might even sport liquid water. But as their host stars evolve, the perilous inner edge of these extrasolar planetary systems’ habitable zones move decidedly outward.
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Here’s a Harpers review on a new book about #transhumanism coming out soon that discusses the movement, including some of my work. I saw this review in the print edition today (150,000 copies hitting the stands today and 2nd oldest mag in America).
George Saunders is the most humane American writer working today. He need not ask, as Sheila Heti did in the title of her novel, how a person should be. He knows. A person should be courageous and hopeful, generous and kind. A person should sacrifice herself for the good of those who are more vulnerable. A person should live in the knowledge that life is suffering, and that the most, or least, she can do is attempt to ameliorate the suffering of others. And — this is where it gets interesting — a story should be as compassionate as a person. “A story’s positive virtues are not different from the positive virtues of its writer,” Saunders noted in an essay called “My Writing Education.” “A story should be honest, direct, loving, restrained.”
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