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Feb 7, 2020

Why Life Expectancy Could Rise Significantly in the Near Future

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, humor, life extension, neuroscience

Let’s face it, getting older sucks, and not because of all the extra candles on the birthday cake. Getting cake and presents every year is great, but the loss of health and independence isn’t a particularly good birthday present. (Wow, what’d I get this year? Just what I didn’t want: sarcopenia and hearing loss!)

Given the downsides of aging, it really is surprising how little people talk about it beyond the odd grumble or even as a joke. Normally, it’s to complain about the aches and pains that gradually appear as the years roll by, as we find it harder to walk up the stairs and “bright-eyed and bushy-tailed” turns into “cloudy-eyed and with an aching back”.

That’s not even the serious side of aging, which involves the gradual loss of independence and the age-related diseases that first rob us of our quality of life before they get around to killing us. The serious part is the horror of Alzheimer’s and the loss of self that it brings, the heart disease that cripples us, the frailty that steals our independence, and the lurking threat of cancer that rises dramatically as we age.

Feb 7, 2020

The Moloch DAO: Collapsing The Firm

Posted by in category: bitcoin

Organisations come in many shapes and sizes. The blockchain allows us to experiment with radical new ways to organise around collective goals. We’ve seen the ICO boom (and bust, for now). For many, it was a novel way to re-imagine how certain projects can come to fruition and exist. ICO’s, however, are only the start and tip of the iceberg of what’s to come. In this article, I will detail thoughts around the Moloch DAO. It’s a new type of organisation (developed by Ameen Soleimani, Arjun Bhuptani, James Young, Layne Haber & Rahul Sethuram) that blurs and redefines the definition of a firm.

Moloch DAO

Imagine if a company worked as follows:

Feb 7, 2020

Researchers develop stretchy wearable electronics from liquid metal

Posted by in categories: electronics, wearables

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Feb 7, 2020

RAADfest: The most cutting edge age-reversal information presented for the general public

Posted by in category: life extension

RAADfest is the largest event in the world where practical and cutting-edge methods to reverse aging are presented for all interest levels, from beginner to expert.

Feb 7, 2020

Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills

Posted by in category: sustainability

Companies are searching for ways to deal with the tens of thousands of blades that have reached the end of their lives.

Feb 7, 2020

Indian Scientist In Australia Is Close To Developing Vaccine For Coronavirus And Save Lives

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

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In a major breakthrough that can lead to a quick Coronavirus vaccine, a team of scientists led by an overseas citizen of India, Professor SS Vasan of CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Dangerous Pathogens Team has successfully mass produced the novel Coronavirus strain outside China in sufficiently large number to begin clinical trial of medicine.

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Feb 7, 2020

Scientists reveal the most extensive genetic map of cancers ever made

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

It shows how hard tumours will be to crack.

Science and technology Feb 8th 2020 edition.

Feb 7, 2020

Company to harvest green hydrogen from underground oil fires

Posted by in category: futurism

Proton Technologies will target heavy oil deposits but leave carbon trapped underground.

Feb 7, 2020

Worlds gets $10 million to help enterprises observe their physical environments with AI

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Worlds, a Dallas-based startup that uses AI to help large organizations monitor their physical spaces, has raised $10 million.

Feb 7, 2020

Why the next generation of rockets will be powered by methane

Posted by in category: energy

Rocket fuel research has turned to natural gas…