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Dec 24, 2015

How MacArthur Genius Peidong Yang Uses Nanowires and Bacteria to Make the Ultimate Clean Fuel

Posted by in categories: energy, nanotechnology

A nanomaterials chemist has figured out a good way to mimic leaves and turn water and carbon dioxide into things we need.

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Dec 24, 2015

Imagine plunging into Earth’s atmosphere using this re-entry spacesuit

Posted by in category: space

Space diving like Commander Shepard or Master Chief. Theoretical, obviously.


Just imagine the experience of a lifetime: Jumping from low Earth orbit, your world turns into fire as the acceleration increases…

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Dec 24, 2015

New genes associated with extreme longevity identified

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, health, life extension, mathematics, neuroscience

Death is a disease.

Diseases can and will be cured.

Do the math. wink

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Dec 24, 2015

Confronting the Multiverse: What ‘Infinite Universes’ Would Mean

Posted by in category: cosmology

Is it possible that our universe is but one of many, with laws that mean nothing in the “pocket universes” that co-exist all around, and through, us? Robert Lawrence Kuhn explores the multiverse with the help of the world’s leading experts on these theori.

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Dec 24, 2015

This hoverboard costs $20,000 and can fly for six minutes

Posted by in categories: energy, space, transportation

2015 was literally and figuratively the year of the hoverboard. While everyone was talking about the self-balancing scooters, two companies showed off skateboard-shaped boards that actually hovered a few inches above the Earth: Lexus with the “Slide” board, and Arx Pax with its second generation Hendo Hoverboard. Now, just days before the new year, another company called ArcaSpace is taking a shot at making the mythical hoverboard.

ArcaSpace is primarily a private space company, and one of the original 26 teams that competed in the Ansari X Prize competition in 2004. (It also entered the Lunar X Prize competition, too, before pulling out in 2013.) But early this morning the company released a video that shows off the “ArcaBoard,” a fan-powered rectangle that can lift a person off the ground by almost a foot.

The ArcaBoard gets its power — 430 pounds of thrust, or 272 horsepower, according to the company — from 36 electric fans. The company also says its built in some self-balancing tech to make it fly smoothly. Beyond that, though, it doesn’t look like there’s much to the experience. Dumitru Propescu, ArcaSpace’s CEO, is seen riding it in the video, but it doesn’t look like he has much control over where it’s going. It’s actually pretty reminiscent of the Hendo Hoverboard videos — sure, it hovers, but you can’t really steer it enough to ever use it to get anywhere.

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Dec 24, 2015

Presidential candidate Zoltan Istvan explains Transhumanism

Posted by in categories: geopolitics, transhumanism

Part of a video series on transhumanism with the Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/sciencetech/video-1238766/P…anism.html #transhumanism


Zoltan Istvan from the Transhumanist Party speaks to Ellie Zolfagharifard from DailyMail.com.

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Dec 24, 2015

Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality | Andreessen Horowitz

Posted by in categories: hardware, innovation, media & arts, software, virtual reality

Dec 24, 2015

Breakthrough of the Year 2015

Posted by in category: innovation

Watch 10 of the year’s biggest scientific breakthroughs in less than 5 minutes.

More info: http://scim.ag/22b5Uym

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Dec 24, 2015

World GIF — Find & Share on GIPHY

Posted by in category: futurism

Discover & Share this World GIF with everyone you know. GIPHY is how you search, share, discover, and create GIFs.

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Dec 24, 2015

How Universal Basic Income will Transform Human Experience

Posted by in category: economics

On Ideapod: https://www.ideapod.com/idea/How-Universal-Basic-Income-will…24128040f8
On Change.is: http://change.is/video/how-universal-basic-income-will-trans…experience

Source: Jason Silva — IBM Insight 2015 — theCUBE — #ibminsight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VgfcfQv_TE

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