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Sep 18, 2019

S.H.I.E.L.D. Introduces Captain America’s Energy Shield

Posted by in categories: energy, singularity

On Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., w hen Leo Fitz gave Director Coulson a new cybernetic hand to replace the one he left with Grant Ward’s corpse on the alien planet in “Maveth,” he teased the hand had a few surprises hidden inside. It turns out one of those surprises is a very cool artifact from the Marvel Comics Universe, which we saw in the episode “The Singularity.”

In the episode, Coulson and Agent May went looking for Daisy Johnson and Hive at the home of James, an Inhuman who formerly resided at Afterlife. By the time Coulson’s crew arrived, Hive and his growing Inhuman army had already fled the scene, but they left some explosives behind in the house. The quick thinking S.H.I.E.L.D. director pulled May down into a hole in the floor, where Daisy had unearthed an ancient Kree artifact, and shielded himself and May from the blast with…well, a shield.

The energy shield was formed by his cybernetic hand, with a S.H.I.E.L.D. logo on the center. Coulson tells May that he thought it would cool for the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. to actually have a shield, but it may be some of Coulson’s Captain America hero worship coming to the forefront.

Sep 18, 2019

FOLLOW-UP: What is the ‘zero-point energy’ (or ‘vacuum energy’) in quantum physics? Is it really possible that we could harness this energy?

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, space travel

This could make zero point energy teleportation for spaceships for near I instant object transfer.


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Sep 18, 2019

IBM opens Quantum Computation Center on Poughkeepsie campus

Posted by in categories: computing, finance, quantum physics

The previously “impossible to solve” problems for some of the biggest financial, technological and academic institutions will soon be solved in Poughkeepsie.

That’s according to IBM, which announced the opening of its first Quantum Computing Center on Wednesday, based on its Poughkeepsie campus.

Quantum computing is “nothing short of a revolution for how we are going to process information,” Director of IBM Research Dario Gil said. While computers have traditionally processed binary code — a collection of ones and zeroes — quantum computers, he said, process information in qubits, or quantum bits.

Sep 18, 2019

Johannon Ben-Zion, U.S. Transhumanist Party presidential candidate 2020 — Futurist New Deal — ideaXme — Ira Pastor

Posted by in categories: aging, biotech/medical, business, cryonics, cryptocurrencies, economics, finance, geopolitics, governance, government, health, transhumanism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8F57ZaE9bw&t=1s

Sep 18, 2019

Dr. Burzynski’s Cancer Treatment

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski’s radical, alternative cancer treatment was suppressed by the FDA and Texas Medical Board, until his patients fought back. Watch more: https://bit.ly/2kRwW2e

Sep 18, 2019

The Medical Breakthrough of a Lifetime

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

MaraGen Aims to Detoxify the Body from Pathogens & Harmful Substances. It Is an Alternative Medicine for Incurable Diseases.

Sep 18, 2019

The Heterogeneity of Senescent Cells

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

Cellular senescence, discovered in 1961 by Leonard Hayflick and Paul Moorhead, is a state in which cells no longer perform their functions, instead emitting harmful chemicals that turn other cells senescent. Senescence is primarily caused by telomere shortening and DNA damage, and senescent cells are known to contribute to multiple diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and dementia.

One method of removing senescent cells is caloric restriction, which is a temporary reduction of food calories. This has been shown to be one of the most effective methods to decrease and slow the onset of aging phenotypes [1].

This is related to autophagy, which is the cell’s natural method of breaking down parts of itself when it doesn’t have immediate access to food [2]. Autophagy has been shown to both promote and prevent senescence. It removes damaged macromolecules or organelles, such as mitochondria, which would otherwise cause cellular senescence. However, some of the processes that cause autophagy cause cellular senescence as well [3].

Sep 18, 2019

Missing Link Between Simple Cells and Complex Life-Forms Possibly Found

Posted by in category: futurism

Cells with nuclei bear certain similarities to simple archaeal cells, which may help clear up their fuzzy evolutionary past.

Sep 18, 2019

Creating human-like consciousness requires just four key ingredients

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Far from being a mystical “ghost in the machine”, consciousness evolved as a practical mental tool and we could engineer it in a robot using these simple guidelines.

Sep 18, 2019

Superhard forms of carbon expected to rival diamonds

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Machine learning predicts 43 previously unknown, superhard forms of carbon. Could one offer a cheaper alternative to diamond?