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Nov 21, 2023

New tumor-selective light treatment could kill breast cancer cells with greater accuracy and improve tumor control

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

This is a nontoxic version of cancer treatment that works on any type of cancer.


Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women in Singapore. Treatment is multimodal and often involves surgery to remove the cancer and lymph nodes involved.

Adjuvant therapy, given after the , is used to irradiate and destroy micrometastases, which are in the blood stream or lymphatics, to decrease recurrence. This form of therapy is subdivided into local (radiotherapy) and systemic therapy (endocrine therapy, chemotherapy and targeted therapy).

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Nov 21, 2023

How Legged Robots—Like NASA’s Mars Dog—Could Revolutionize Space Exploration

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

Move over Perseverance, a new kind of robot is coming to town.

Nov 21, 2023

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein (Christopher Hurt)

Posted by in categories: alien life, futurism

Starship Troopers.
by Robert A. Heinlein.
Read by Christopher Hurt.
Originally issued by NLS on cassette in 1982
Can we refrain from inane comments about fascism? Unless you have something constructive to say I’ll probably just delete it and block you from commenting in the future. Or I might turn off comments altogether. With that out of the way, enjoy the book.
“Thousands of years in the future, a young man joins mobile infantry and fights in an interplanetary war against insect-like aliens.“
Chapter list:
00:00:00 — (i) Book info.
00:01:03 — (01)
00:38:44 — (02)
01:17:03 — (03)
01:35:28 — (04)
01:51:35 — (05)
02:24:49 — (06)
03:03:54 — (07)
03:23:54 — (08)
03:49:49 — (09)
04:05:24 — (10)
04:36:24 — (11)
05:13:19 — (12)
06:25:44 — (13)
08:20:23 — (14)

Like these books? Want to help?
These books come from the National Library Services.
I encourage you to donate:
https://www.loc.gov/nls/about/donate/

Nov 21, 2023

Woman Controls a Fighter Jet Sim Using Only Her Mind

Posted by in categories: computing, military, neuroscience

Year 2015 face_with_colon_three


A brain-computer interface lets a quadriplegic woman pilot an F-35 flight simulator with the power of her mind alone.

Nov 21, 2023

Epigenetic Test #9: Finally, A Younger Horvath Age Than the Chronological

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

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Nov 21, 2023

Not Just Microsoft: These Big Tech Stocks Also Just Hit Record Highs

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space

Technology stocks rallied Monday as an eventful weekend in the burgeoning artificial intelligence space and a hotly anticipated earnings report drove optimism, sending several notable stocks to their highest level on record.


The Nasdaq is on pace for its fourth-best month in a decade, boosted Monday by more AI optimism.

Nov 21, 2023

Inside the Chaos at OpenAI

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

[Interesting Read]


Sam Altman’s weekend of shock and drama began a year ago, with the release of ChatGPT.

Nov 21, 2023

What’s next for OpenAI

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

If you were offline this weekend, my colleague Will Douglas Heaven and I break down what you missed and what’s next for the AI industry.

What happened

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Nov 21, 2023

Meta is giving researchers more access to Facebook and Instagram data

Posted by in category: futurism

There’s still so much we don’t know about social media’s impact. But Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg tells MIT Technology Review that he hopes new tools the company just released will start to change that.

Nov 21, 2023

What Is AGI And Why You Should Care

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

AGI (or Artificial General Intelligence) is something (in my view) everyone should know about and think about.