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Jun 24, 2019

New Mind-Controlled Robot Arm Doesn’t Require Brain Implant

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

New mind-controlled robotic arm works without brain implants.

Jun 24, 2019

ideaXme — Dr. Germaine Cornelissen-Guillaume, PhD — Halberg Chronobiology Center — University of Minnesota — Ira Pastor

Posted by in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, complex systems, cryonics, DNA, futurism, genetics, health, life extension

Jun 24, 2019

Invisible threat to the Great Barier Reef

Posted by in category: futurism

BREAKING NEWS: Microfibres from clothes and furniture are contaminating the #GreatBarrierReef, researchers from @AustralianMarineScience and the University of Copenhagen have discovered.

The team—Lene Jensen, Cherie Motti, Anders Garm, Hemerson Tonin and Frederieke Kroon—investigated microdebris from inside fish and surface waters on inshore and offshore areas of the reef.

Jun 24, 2019

Die. Freeze Body. Store. Revive

Posted by in categories: cryonics, finance, life extension

Cryonicists are banking on the idea that future technology will allow preserved bodies to be brought back to life.

Jun 24, 2019

UN world population report predicts slowing growth rate, 10.9 billion peak by 2100

Posted by in category: futurism

While this general estimate that the global population should peak at under 11 billion is better news than some earlier higher estimates that it would reach as high as 15 billion by the end of the century, the researchers behind the study suggest the vast majority of population growth coming over the course of this century will occur in the world’s poorest countries.

Jun 24, 2019

Cancer patients welcome breakthrough ‘living drug’ that reprograms immune systems to fight disease

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, health

In a groundbreaking treatment, cancer patients’ immune systems are being genetically reprogrammed to fight their terminal cancer for them, with promising results.

In the UK, a number of National Health Service (NHS) patients with lymphoma at King’s College Hospital have been given CAR-T, a “living drug” that is unique to each patient as it contains some of their own cells.

Jun 24, 2019

How the Pentagon’s Skynet Would Automate War

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, drones, military, surveillance

Mass surveillance, drone swarms, cyborg soldiers, telekinesis, synthetic organisms, and laser beams will determine future conflict by 2030.

Jun 24, 2019

What can Schrödinger’s cat say about 3D printers on Mars? Essays

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, space

On a sofa in the corner of the room, a cat is purring. It seems obvious that the cat is an example of life, whereas the sofa itself is not. But should we trust our intuition? Consider this: Isaac Newton assumed a universal time flowing without external influence, and relative time measured by clocks – just as our perception tells us. Two centuries later, Albert Einstein dropped the concept of universal time, and instead introduced a concept of time measured only locally by clocks. Who before Einstein would have thought that time on the Sun, the Moon, and even on each of our watches runs at slightly different rates – that time is not a universal absolute? And yet today our cellphones must take this into account for a GPS to function.


Life ≠ alive.

A cat is alive, a sofa is not: that much we know. But a sofa is also part of life. Information theory tells us why.

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Jun 24, 2019

Zero Psilocybin Arrests in Denver First Month After Decriminalization

Posted by in category: futurism

Denver police made zero psychedelic mushroom arrests in the first month of the decriminalization initiative being on the books.

Jun 24, 2019

Are scientists on the brink of discovering a mirror universe?

Posted by in category: futurism

New experiments look to the interplay between neutrons and magnetic fields to observe our universal reflection.