Steven Kotler — Singularity Hub
Violence is contagious, this we know. Time and again, researchers have found that exposure to aggression links directly to increases in violent behavior. This is why, for example, 30% of abused children grow up to be abusers themselves. It’s also why, as Gary Slutkin, a professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Illinois, Chicago and the executive director of CURE Violence, recently told New Scientist: “[P]eople who have observed violence are 30 times more likely to commit it. Under certain conditions it can be up to 100 to 1,000 times more likely.”
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Jun 23, 2014
Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update and Published Amazon Author by Andres Agostini at www.amazon.com/author/agostini
Posted by Andres Agostini in category: futurism
Diet restriction suspends development in nematode worms, doubles lifespan http://www.kurzweilai.net/diet-restriction-suspends-developm…s-lifespan
Modeling how neurons work together to perform movements: not as random as we thought http://www.kurzweilai.net/modeling-how-neurons-work-together…we-thought
A low-cost ‘super-resolution’ microscopic optical device http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-low-cost-super-resolution-microscopic-optical-device
Smile! A Drone Is About to Take Your Picture http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/smile-a-drone-is-ab…s&_r=0
Jun 22, 2014
Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update and Published Amazon Author by Andres Agostini at www.amazon.com/author/agostini
Posted by Andres Agostini in category: futurism
CNN: Something that will NEVER happen to Germania and Scandinavia. ‘Foreign Legion’ in Iraq and Syria may bring jihad to West http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/16/world/meast/iraq-sria-fore…?hpt=hp_c1
BUSINESS INSIDER: Nine Nations Have Nukes — Here’s How Many Each Country Has https://www.geekwrapped.com/archive/nine-nations-have-nukes-…ountry-has
TRANSFORM PETROLEUM IN OBSOLETE AND WORTHLESS. Here’s Why The Middle East Will Be ‘On Fire’ For The Foreseeable Future http://www.businessinsider.com/the-middle-east-will-be-on-fi…2014-6
Jun 20, 2014
Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update and Published Amazon Author by Andres Agostini at www.amazon.com/author/agostini
Posted by Andres Agostini in category: futurism
How to Explain the Number of Financial Crimes on Wall Street http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2014/06/17/no-one-…ial-crime/
Traders say they are not “too big to fail”, clearing houses may be http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/04/01/traders-clearing-idUKL5N0MT37120140401
Retail banks’ worst nightmare? Google http://www.cnbc.com/id/101127506
Jun 19, 2014
Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update and Published Amazon Author by Andres Agostini at www.amazon.com/author/agostini
Posted by Andres Agostini in category: futurism
A Look Behind The FBI’s Cyber Most Wanted List http://www.forbes.com/sites/frontline/2014/06/18/a-look-behi…nted-list/
Singapore Billionaire Bets Big on Energy in Africa, Asia http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-19/singapore-b…-asia.html
Oracle Sales, Profit Miss Analysts’ Estimates http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-19/oracle-sale…mates.html
Jun 19, 2014
‘We’re Living in Science Fiction Right Now’ Diamandis Tells GSP 2014
Posted by Seb in category: singularity
Jason Dorrier — Singularity Hub
“It’s that time again.” These were the words on more than one pair of lips at Singularity University’s 2014 Graduate Studies Program (GSP) opening ceremony.
The 10-week summer program was Singularity University’s first offering six years ago, and it remains at the heart of Singularity University’s mission today—to use technology to positively impact a billion people in the next ten years.
Jun 19, 2014
Scientists Trigger Stem Cells to Produce New Brain Cells
Posted by Seb in categories: biological, neuroscience
Cameron Scott — Singularity Hub
It turns out that an apple a day — or at least an apple spinach salad — does keep the doctor away. But it’s not true that when brain cells die we can’t make more. When and how remain active questions, however, so there’s no free pass to collectively disregard our mothers’ safety tips just yet.
Researchers at Duke University have shed some light on the subject with findings that suggest that down the line doctors may be able spur the brain to repair itself.
Jun 19, 2014
Amateur Beats Gov’t at Digitizing Newspapers: Tom Tryniski’s Weird, Wonderful Website
Posted by Seb in category: government
Jun 19, 2014
Amazing People with Real Superpowers
Posted by Seb in categories: evolution, geopolitics, homo sapiens
Brent Swancer — Mysterious Universe
The world of comics and movies is full of superheroes and characters with abilities that transcend what is possible for the typical person. We enjoy these stories because we can escape our reality and imagine what it would be like to have amazing powers of our own. Yet, a gifted few in this world don’t have to imagine because like the superheroes in comics and movies, they too have extraordinary powers beyond normal humans.
Here we will look at a selection of real world people with remarkable powers and abilities that surpass those of us mere mortals.
Jun 19, 2014
Milky Way may have 100 million life-giving planets
Posted by Seb in categories: alien life, astronomy
Kurweil AI
“It seems highly unlikely that we are alone.”
There are some 100 million other places in the Milky Way galaxy that could support life above the microbial level, reports a group of astronomers in the journal Challenges (open access), based on a new computation method to examine data from planets orbiting other stars in the universe.
“This study does not indicate that complex life exists on that many planets; we’re saying that there are planetary conditions that could support it, according to the paper’s authors*. “Complex life doesn’t mean intelligent life — though it doesn’t rule it out or even animal life — but simply that organisms larger and more complex than microbes could exist in a number of different forms,” the researchers explain.
