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Mar 9, 2020

Three Articles of Posthuman Modernism: The Meta-Cinema of Marcel L’Herbier (and Friends)

Posted by in categories: entertainment, media & arts

https://paper.li/e-1437691924


On October 4, 1923, the American composer George Antheil made his highly anticipated Paris debut at the Champs Elysées Theatre, in front of a rioting audience. A few minutes into the recital the crowd became unsettled; members of the audience started to protest the offensive nature of the music, others jumped to the musician’s defence, and before long the house was out of control. Unbeknownst to Antheil, the riot was in fact staged by his friends Marcel L’Herbier and Georgette Leblanc, who needed to film just such a scene for their upcoming movie, The Inhuman Woman. The ruse would only be revealed to him about a year after the incident. As he recalls:

I went to see a movie called L’Inhumaine, featuring Georgette LeBlanc. In this silent movie (still preserved by our New York Museum of Modern Art) you can if you wish see a vast rioting public… However, most curiously, this riot is no fake one. It is an actual riot, the same riot through which I played and lived that night. [1]

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Mar 9, 2020

UK Cryonics and Cryopreservation Research Network

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

The UK Cryonics and Cryopreservation Research Network is a group of UK researchers who, together with international advisors, aim to advance research in cryopreservation and its applications.

Although we are a small group, we hope to promote academic and industrial activity on cryopreservation, and discuss its potential applications, including the idea of cryopreserving whole humans, commonly known as cryonics. We acknowledge that cryonics is a controversial topic, but like any unprovable approach we think its scientific discussion is necessary to permit its understanding by the public and by the wider scientific community, and it allows us to address many of the misunderstandings surrounding cryonics. We also think that cryopreservation, cryogenics and cryonics are fields with a huge potential impact on human medicine whose societal implications should be considered and debated.

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Mar 9, 2020

Wireless Brain Sensors – A Breakthrough in Medical Devices Industry

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, mobile phones, neuroscience

In the era of modern world, medicals advances are evident everywhere. Recently, a team of doctors, researchers and scientists have collaborated to create an electronic biosensor which can be incorporated inside a brain to measure or determine the pH, temperature, flow rates and pressure of the brain. Moreover, it dissolves when no longer needed without the need of any surgical procedure. It is widely applicable in Neuroscience field as brain trauma and injuries kill around 50,000 people per year in the USA alone. These kinds of injuries often cause the brain to swell, which constricts the flow of blood and oxygen, and can lead to permanent damage. So surgeons need reliable ways of monitoring the pressure inside their patients’ head. Earlier, sensors that existed were usually large, heavy and solid, thus had to be removed once the patient recovered. But bioresorbable wireless brain sensors are light, handy and could be easily inserted inside the brain to monitor intracranial pressure and temperature. Once the implantable device is not needed, it is absorbed by the body, eliminating the need of surgically removing the device.

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Wireless brain sensors are devices that help monitoring the temperature, detecting the intracranial pressure, and record brain signaling in the form of brain waves. The essential aim of this wireless brain sensor is of securing the person from emergency situations. The devices are primarily used for patients experiencing conditions such as sleep disorders, traumatic brain injury, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and other neurological conditions. These devices aid in observing and monitoring the neurological deviations and provide support for improving the cognitive functionalities. Accessibility of these sensors is easy from a remote area through wireless connectivity and be integrated with smart phones, tablets and computers, consequently be monitored intermittently from a homecare environment, making the device more cost-efficient.

Mar 9, 2020

How America disguises its violence: colonialism, mass incarceration, and the need for resistant imagination

Posted by in category: futurism

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 22, Special Issue: Political Violence and the Imagination, editors Mihaela Mihai and Mathias Thaler, pp. 542–561.

Mar 9, 2020

How China’s tech firms are coping with the coronavirus downturn

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, economics

Before the outbreak, China’s tech industry was already under pressure from the ongoing trade war with the US, which has seen expansion plans crimped by a tighter funding environment and macro economic slowdown. A rapid rise in the number of unemployed could pose a big challenge for the world’s second-largest economy which has seen growth rates already slow to near three-decade lows.


A growing number of Chinese tech-related companies have adopted ‘self-rescue’ plans as the coronavirus epidemic disrupts their business operations.

Mar 8, 2020

A New Name for Our Next Mars Rover on This Week @NASA – March 7, 2020

Posted by in category: space travel

This week…

🔴 A new name for our next Mars mission: NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover 🐉 SpaceX’s Dragon launches with supplies for the International Space Station 👩🏽‍🚀 Applications open to #BeAnAstronaut

Mar 8, 2020

Stay Strong America, Do Not Panic

Posted by in category: futurism

Eyes open, no fear.

Mar 8, 2020

Apple Issues New Warning Affecting Millions Of iPhone Users

Posted by in category: mobile phones

O.o…


Apple iPhone owners worldwide, be very careful with your phones…

Mar 8, 2020

Coronavirus: Revenge of the Pangolins?

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

China has banned the trade of wildlife, suspecting that exotic animals infected humans. What will that really do?

Mar 8, 2020

The enduring enigma of the cosmic cold spot

Posted by in category: space

Why does the cosmic microwave background have a strange patch that is much colder than expected? Syed Faisal ur Rahman looks at some possible explanations.