The axon initial segment (AIS) is where nerve signals begin, and its adaptability is key to brain function. Scientists have found that the AIS changes in response to activity levels, helping neurons maintain balance. By using advanced imaging techniques, they have observed these changes live for the first time, deepening our understanding of brain plasticity.
We often speculate that the reason we can’t hear aliens civilizations is because our SETI efforts (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) relies on radio and telescopes to weak to hear them. But how plausible is that? and what would it tell us about our own future?
MSTC_S1E6: Dr. Kristofer Pister, Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley and Founder of Dust Networks presents all you need to know about Smart Dust, thousands of tiny sensors detecting movement and vibration. It is amazing how useful that could be.
The Zoo Hypothesis is a Fermi Paradox solution that assumes extraterrestrial civilizations can’t be detected by our SETI efforts because they keep our whole world in an Alien Zoo.
Many seek a path to enlightenment through study and meditation, but what does science tell us about transcendence? And could entire civilizations seek to leave this reality behind?
Credits: Transcendence. Episode 465; September 19, 2024 Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur. Editors: Dillon Ollander. John M Smart. Graphics: Jeremy Jozwik. Ken York. Sergio Botero. Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images. Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator
Does humanity face a bright future? What will it be like? We ask these questions in a discussion with Isaac Arthur host of Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur. Other topics include, uplifting of intelligent species like Dolphins, Chimpanzees, and locked in water world aliens on exoplanets. As well as blackhole farming and if alien civilizations will decide to come together when the lights go out.
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The concept of enhancing and augmenting animal minds & bodies to be able to use and understand human technology, known as Uplifting, has long fascinated us. Today in this two-part collaboration with John Michael Godier, we will explore this concept as well as the possibility of using such technology with alien races, the polar opposite of the classic Star Trek Prime Directive.
Graphics Team: Edward Nardella. Jarred Eagley. Justin Dixon. Katie Byrne. Kris Holland. Misho Yordanov. Murat Mamkegh. Pierre Demet. Sergio Botero. Stefan Blandin.
Script Editing: Andy Popescu. Connor Hogan. Edward Nardella. Eustratius Graham. Gregory Leal. Jefferson Eagley. Luca de Rosa. Mark Warburton. Michael Gusevsky. Mitch Armstrong. MolbOrg. Naomi Kern. Philip Baldock. Sigmund Kopperud. Tiffany Penner.