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Aug 23, 2016
Neuroscientists identify cortical links to adrenal medulla (mind-body connection)
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience, robotics/AI
Neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh have identified the neural networks that connect the cerebral cortex to the adrenal medulla — the inner part of the adrenal gland, located above each kidney, which is responsible for the body’s rapid response in stressful situations.
These findings, reported in the online Early Edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNAS), provide evidence for the neural basis of a mind-body connection. They also shed new light on how stress, depression, and other mental states can alter organ function, and show that there is a real anatomical basis for psychosomatic illness.
Aug 23, 2016
Aliens in Orbit? Probably Not. $100K on a Kickstarter to Check? Oh, Sure
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: alien life
Aug 23, 2016
These Theoretical Propulsion Systems Might Make Interstellar Travel a Reality
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: physics, space travel
One of the biggest questions in physics whether or not humanity could ever really travel between the stars. Here’s how we might be able to do it.
Aug 23, 2016
Here is Jeremy Seaman’s talk at NeuroFutures on the dynamic encoding properties of medial frontal cortex neurons and ensembles
Posted by Roman Mednitzer in categories: futurism, neuroscience
Aug 23, 2016
Aubrey de Grey Explains The OncoSENS Approach to Curing ALT-Cancer
Posted by Steve Hill in category: biotech/medical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZOzDmeVWk4
Aubrey de Grey Explains ALT cancer at the DNA Conference earlier this year. Support their cancer research at: https://www.lifespan.io/campaigns/sens-control-alt-delete-cancer/
Help Aubrey and the SENS Foundation fight ALT-Cancer here, https://www.lifespan.io/campaigns/sens-control-alt-delete-cancer/
Aug 23, 2016
Battery you can swallow could enable future ingestible medical devices
Posted by Bruno Henrique de Souza in categories: biotech/medical, futurism
Baterias comestível feita com melanina e materiais absorvíveis.
Baterias de melanina é baixa em relação ao de iões de lítio, seria suficientemente elevada para alimentar um dispositivo de libertação de fármaco ou de detecção ingerível. Por exemplo, Bettinger prevê usando a bateria do seu grupo para detectar mudanças intestino microbioma e respondendo com um comunicado da medicina, ou para a entrega de rajadas de uma vacina durante várias horas antes de degradar.
Aug 23, 2016
NASA Invests in Innovative Concepts, Including Electronic-recycling Microbes
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biological, internet, sustainability
Aug 23, 2016
Look Up! 2017 is Going to be the Year of the Autonomous Flying Taxi
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Aircraft manufacturing company Airbus is looking to the skies for a solution to the growing traffic problem. They intend to send out a prototype for their self-flying taxi by next year.
For those of us who live in crowded cities, rush hour traffic is a daily struggle we aren’t likely to get used to. The past few years have seen an ever-lengthening travel time in different cities all over the world.
Nobody is immune, not even the most innovative minds of the world. Aircraft manufacturing company Airbus notes the irony that techies in Silicon Valley come up with all sorts of innovation every day, yet none of them has solved one of their own biggest problems: traffic congestion. “Silicon Valley may pride itself on speed, but during rush hour, everything around the IT Mecca grinds to a halt,” they wrote on their website. “The situation is even worse in cities such as Mumbai, Manila, or Tokyo,” they added. In the Philippines, an estimate says PHP 2.5 billion ($57 million) of potential income is lost to traffic every day, and will rise to P6 billion daily by 2030. In the US, this loss is estimated at $160 billion a year.
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Aug 23, 2016
Alan Watts on Socially Responsible Automation and an Unconditional Basic Income Guarantee
Posted by Blair Erickson in category: economics
It’s like he knew what the main problems of work-cultist capitalism and its socially irresponsible job automation were going to be before the whole mess even got started.
This video is a piece selected from watercourseway1’s longer version called “Alan Watts — Money and Guilt” (account since deleted). Closest copy I can see now is: