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Sep 8, 2017

We need to change how we bury the dead

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The way we traditionally bury the dead is horrible for the environment.

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Sep 8, 2017

There’s a new kind of chocolate for the first time in 80 years — and it’s pink

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Sep 8, 2017

A spray that can mask your DNA wherever it’s left

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Is this a new frontier in personal privacy or is it just a handy tool for criminals? (via Freethink)

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Sep 8, 2017

A Student Found an Ancient Canadian Village That’s 10,000 Years Older Than The Pyramids

Posted by in category: futurism

For hundreds (perhaps thousands) of years, generations of the Heiltsuk Nation — an indigenous group in British Columbia — have passed down the oral histories of where they came from.

The Nation claims that its ancestors fled for survival to a coastal area in Canada that never froze during the Ice Age.

A new excavation on Triquet Island on British Columbia’s Central Coast has now backed up that claim, according to local news outlet CBC.

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Sep 7, 2017

‘Becoming Machines Is Part of Our Destiny,’ Says Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan [Podcast]

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transhumanism

I was honored to be interviewed by Nick Gillespie (editor in chief of Reason.com and Reason TV) in a 40 minute podcast about transhumanism and my run for California Governor as a libertarian. Give it a listen—or read the text of the conversation in the link below: http://reason.com/blog/2017/09/07/transhumanism-libertarianism-zoltan


The “California Dream of Transhumanism” on why he’s pro-robot, running for governor of California, and still angry about getting busted at 18 for selling pot.

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Sep 7, 2017

We’ve just seen 15 new mysterious cosmic radio bursts from space

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Breakthrough Listen detected more radio pulses from the famous repeating source FRB 121102. They’re higher frequency than previous ones but we still don’t know what causes them.

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Sep 7, 2017

New class of drugs targets aging to help keep you healthy

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

The researchers, from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, are calling for senolytic drugs to make the leap from animal research to human clinical trials. They outlined potential clinical trial scenarios in a paper published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society on Monday.

“This is one of the most exciting fields in all of medicine or science at the moment,” said Dr. James Kirkland, director of the Kogod Center on Aging at the Mayo Clinic and lead author of the new paper.

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Sep 7, 2017

Mark Sagar Made a Baby in His Lab. Now It Plays the Piano

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The AI genius, who has built out his virtual BabyX from a laughing, crying head, sees a symbiotic relationship between humans and machines.

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Sep 7, 2017

Equifax says 143 million consumers potentially hacked

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

Equifax Inc, a provider of consumer credit scores, said on Thursday a hack exposed the personal details of potentially 143 million U.S. consumers between mid-May and July.

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The company’s shares were down 5.4 percent in after-market trading.

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Sep 7, 2017

New Senolytic Drugs Reverse Aging — “Can Transform Medicine” Says Leading Researcher

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Senolytic compounds hold promise to reverse aging in humans. Researcher James Kirkland publishes a list of senolytics in a review published yesterday. Two of the senolytics are currently in clinical trials. [Cover photo: Can Senolytic Drugs Reverse Aging? Credit: Getty Images.]

Imagine if you were able to reverse aging and bring your body back to its original health and vigor.

Researchers have already discovered a group of drugs called senolytics which perform this miraculous transformation in mice and are testing them in humans as we speak.

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