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Nov 2, 2018
How Can Black Holes Change the Future?
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: cosmology, futurism
Thereâs still a lot left to learn about black holes. One of the questions astronomers ask: How can black holes change our future?
Nov 2, 2018
The last 15 hours of the NAD+ Mouse fundraiser and we are only $2431 away from the final goal
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
If we can reach our third and final stretch goal and expand the scope of the experiment massively. Could NMN be a true anti-aging drug?
Nov 2, 2018
Choosing Health Early On
Posted by Nicola BagalĂ in categories: futurism, life extension
A thought experiment to see whether life extension might contribute to your happiness.
Today, weâre going to engage in a thought experiment. Weâre going to imagine a world with some sort of antechamber to life in which you hang around as some sort of disembodied entity before you are born. (Some people actually believe in something like that, but we wonât go there; itâs just a thought experiment.)
The Choice to Be Born
Nov 2, 2018
Civilian tourniquet use associated with six-fold reduction in mortality
Posted by Nicholi Avery in category: biotech/medical
New research from Pedro Teixeira, MD and the Texas Tourniquet Study Group shows that for civilian patients with peripheral vascular injury, prehospital tourniquet use is associated with dramatically improved odd of survival.
Nov 2, 2018
The European Service Module â the powerhouse that will supply our NASAâs Orion Spacecraft spacecraft with electricity, propulsion, thermal control, air and water â will soon make its journey from Bremen, Germany to NASAâs Kennedy Space Center
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space travel
Tune in to NASA TV to learn more about this major milestone that will help propel us to deep space missions: https://go.nasa.gov/2qqRCNI
Nov 2, 2018
We are happy to announce Professor Barker as a speaker for the 2019 Undoing Aging Conference
Posted by Michael Greve in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
http://www.undoing-aging.org/news/professor-richard-barker-tâŠnbrFm8JTxA
Richard is an internationally respected leader in healthcare and life sciences. He says: âIâm focused on accelerating precision medicine technologies to advance our healthy lifespanâ.
Nov 2, 2018
Your native language affects what you can and canât see
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in category: futurism
Now in a new paper, published in Psychological Science, Martin Maier and Rasha Abdel Rahman at the Humboldt University of Berlin report that by affecting visual processing at an early stage, such linguistic differences can even determine whether someone will see a coloured shape â or they wonât. âOur native language is thus one of the forces that determine what we consciously perceive,â they write.
The wavelengths of light that we perceive as colours form a smooth continuum, but crucially, the colour categories that people use to divide up this spectrum vary between languages. Maier and Abdel-Rahman studied native Greek-, Russian- and German-speakers for whom these categories differ.
In both Greek and Russian, there is a dedicated category-word for âlight blueâ and another for âdark blueâ but no specific word for âblueâ as a broader category. In German (as in English), people can use qualifiers to refer to âlight blueâ, ânavy blueâ or âsky blueâ, and so on, but there are no dedicated category words for these shades. On the other hand, in German (also as in English) there is a dedicated word âblueâ (blau in German) to cover all the shades of blue. However, Russian, Greek and German alike have a dedicated category word for referring to all shades of âgreenâ, just as we do in English.
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Nov 2, 2018
AI Guru Andrew Ng on the Job Market of Tomorrow
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: economics, education, robotics/AI, transportation
âŠbut Our Timelines Are Too Rosy I would actually welcome a correction in public opinion about what AI can and cannot do. This has happened to me multiple times, where I would listen to a CEO on stage make an announcement about what their company is doing with AI, and then 20 minutes later Iâd talk to one of their engineers, and theyâd say, âNo, weâre not doing that, and we have no idea how to do it.â I think it still takes judgment to know what is and what isnât possible with AI, and when the C-suite does not yet have that judgment itâs possible for companies to make promises very publicly that are just not feasible. Frankly, we see some of this in the self-driving space. Multiple auto [original equipment manufacturer] CEOs have promised self-driving car roadmaps that their own engineers think are unrealistic. I feel [CEOs are] being sincere but just not really understanding what can be done in a certain timeframe.
The co-founder of Googleâs deep-learning research team on the promise of a conditional basic income, the need for a skills-based education system and what CEOs donât understand about artificial intelligence.
Nov 2, 2018
Celprogen 3D bioprints brain organelle for neurological disease research
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, bioprinting, biotech/medical, neuroscience
Stem cell research firm Celprogen Inc. has been working on something quite exciting for some time now, which has remained largely under the radar until very recently. The California-based company announced it has successfully 3D printed a human brain organelle using brain stem cells. The bioprinted brain could have applications in studying neurological diseases.
More than just announcing the bioprinted brain organelle, Celprogen has also used the brain to study the ârole of Microglia activation and deactivation in neurological diseases.â Through this research and experimentation, the company says it has identified and characterized 11 lead compounds that could be potential drug candidates for diseases such as Alzheimerâs, Parkinsonâs and Glioblastoma.