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Dec 23, 2019
Daniel Amen M.D. Talks Brain Health at Brendon Burchard’s High Performance Academy
Posted by Joseph Barney in categories: health, neuroscience, Peter Diamandis, Ray Kurzweil
Hey, this guy is amazing. He’s the Kurzweil/Diamandis of psychiatry.
Click here (http://bit.ly/1zYbN7v) to receive a FREE video series designed to introduce you to my new revolutionary movement called the Brain Warriors Way.
Dec 23, 2019
Zinaida Good | Reversing Epigenetic Aging and Immunosenescent Trends in Humans | VISION WEEKEND 2019
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
You heard about reversing the epigenetic clock 2.5 years? Living drugs? CAR T cells? Fight cancer? Here ya go.
Vision Weekend is the annual member gathering of Foresight Institute, a non-profit for advancing beneficial technologies for the long-term flourishing of life.
Dec 23, 2019
Scientists Find the Universe’s First Molecule
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Dec 23, 2019
Lizard-Like Fossil May Represent 306-Million-Year-Old Evidence of Animal Parenting
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Shortly after transitioning from sea to land, our egg-laying ancestors may have started parenting their young.
Dec 23, 2019
Scientists mapped Titan’s awe-inspiring terrain for the first time
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, space
Navigating Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is a challenge. Just getting close is hard enough — it’s hundreds of millions of miles away, after all. But let’s suppose either a robot or a human lands on the surface of the only other body in the Solar System known to have liquid on its surface. They’d need a map — and fortunately, NASA has one ready to go should the occasion ever arise.
In November 2019, scientists made the first ever map detailing the moon’s complicated — and terrifying — terrain. It reveals a moon filled with weird and wonderful geography, including dunes, liquid methane lakes, plains, labyrinthine canyons, and craters.
This is #10 on Inverse’s 20 wildest space discoveries of 2019.
Dec 23, 2019
Scientists Gene-Edited Tomatoes to Make Them Grow Like Grapes
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: genetics, space
It’s 2050, and you’ve just arrived on Mars. Your first meal awaits: a plate of spaghetti marinara made from fresh vine-ripened tomatoes. Tough to imagine, right?
The idea that astronauts might enjoy the fresh, cherry-red fruits has seemed borderline absurd. Tomato plants, with their sprawling vines and bulbous fruits, take up space—valuable space. And they’re extremely finicky.
But now, scientists have developed a way to genetically modify cherry tomatoes so they grow in tighter bunches and take up less space. This could be a game changer as the push to grow vertical, rooftop gardens increases and as humanity stretches out past low-Earth orbit toward the moon, and eventually, Mars.
Dec 23, 2019
Massive star Betelgeuse is dimming and could soon go supernova
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cosmology
Dozens of astronomers from around the world including experts from the USA and Australia have taken to Twitter to discuss the phenomenon and whether it means an explosion is imminent.
Dec 23, 2019
Not a review of “The Artificial Intelligence Contagion”
Posted by Amnon H. Eden in category: robotics/AI
“The Artificial Intelligence Contagion” is book and blog which compares A.I. and Robotics researchers to “the worst criminals the world has ever known”. This is my rebuttal to the author’s promotional material he circulated to 86 law professors and A.I. scientists.
A week ago I received an email from David Barnhizer, the author of a new book entitled “The Artificial intelligence contagion” addressed to 86 law professors, attorneys, and A.I. Researchers. I’ve began reading and found the book’s blog and a book review which says that “Those responsible for [artificial intelligence and robotics] are the worst criminals the world has ever known”. This sentiment is repeated throughout the writings, claiming to reflect growing animosity towards the artificial intelligence community.
For this reason, this piece is NOT a review of the book, which I did not read for reasons made obvious further below, for I do not wish to draw any attention to it. But I take exception to comparing me and my fellow scientists and researchers in artificial intelligence to genocidal dictators and war criminals. And Luddite Activism is a real danger.
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Dec 23, 2019
20+ Popular Heuristics And Cognitive Biases
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: neuroscience
We believe that reality is exactly what we perceive but really, this is just an illusion of our own brain. This happens because our brain takes shortcuts to interpret information and adapt to our surroundings: heuristics on which the brain relies to understand the reality perceived, but… can we always trust our brain when it utilizes these resources?
