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Dec 15, 2018

Scientists design custom nanoparticles with new ‘stencil’ method

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology

Nano-sized particles already make bicycles and tennis rackets lighter and stronger, protect eyeglasses from scratches, and help direct chemotherapy drugs to cancer cells. But their usefulness depends on being able to precisely sculpt them into the right configurations—no easy task when they’re so tiny that thousands of them could fit into the thickness of a sheet of paper.

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Dec 15, 2018

Bioquark — Bustle — 7 Creepy Things A Dead Body Can Do — Ira Pastor

Posted by in categories: aging, biological, biotech/medical, complex systems, cryonics, fun, futurism, genetics, health, homo sapiens

https://www.bustle.com/p/7-creepy-things-a-dead-body-can-do-…e-13550864

Dec 15, 2018

Proof-of-power and Pseudonym Pairs whitepaper, now on https://panarchy.app/ #BitLattice #BITNATION

Posted by in category: energy

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Dec 15, 2018

SEC’s Crypto Czar Signals Some Flexibility on Token Offerings

Posted by in category: cryptocurrencies

Finally some regulatory clarity. We can build something and ask the SEC if it’s going to be enforced.


No-action letters may be a way forward for crypto startups hoping to avoid securities classifications.


Dec 15, 2018

At least 15 central banks are serious about getting into digital currency

Posted by in category: finance

Digital cash may soon start replacing the physical kind.

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Dec 15, 2018

How the Sun was born

Posted by in category: futurism

The Sun is essential to all life on Earth, but where did it come from? ☀️

BBC World Service

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Dec 15, 2018

Meet the People Trying to Live Long Enough to Live Forever

Posted by in categories: life extension, media & arts

For the most serious devotees, immortality-seeking is a full-time commitment to keeping abreast of the latest innovations—they speak of these “modalities” with the same reverence a Christian would of a blessing. A $250 billion industry of antiaging products and services is there for the collection—and many of their offerings are for sale at RAADfest.


Ivan Apers, center, surrounded by participants in the RAAD Challenge, a yearlong health and fitness regimen culminating at RAADfest. Members showed off their results with a choreographed workout set to music.

This story appears in VICE Magazine’s Burnout and Escapism Issue. Click HERE to subscribe.

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Dec 15, 2018

Technology will kill the 9-to-5 work week, says Richard Branson

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

With the rise of A.I., and studies that repeatedly suggest that workers’ productivity actually increases during shorter work days, the work week is poised to undergo a major transformation in the coming years.


The billionaire entrepreneur predicts the rise of technology will soon force society to rethink the modern work week.

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Dec 14, 2018

Kings troll Steph with moon landing footage

Posted by in category: space

The Kings played moon landing footage during Warriors’ intros and Steph loved it 😂 (via NBCS Bay Area)

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Dec 14, 2018

A cosmic fountain is just as cool as it sounds — and stunningly beautiful to match

Posted by in category: cosmology

When vast amounts of gas fall toward a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy cluster, gravitational and electromagnetic forces spray most of the gas away continuously for tens of millions of years. See for yourself: https://go.nasa.gov/2GfhvLd

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