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Mar 14, 2019

Firefighters are warning that lives could be at risk in New York’s $25 billion megadevelopment

Posted by in category: futurism

  • New York City firefighters are worried they don’t have enough capacity to serve Hudson Yards, a $25 billion, 18-million-square-foot megadevelopment that opens Friday.
  • By 2024, when the development is scheduled to be complete, it could have more than 125,000 daily residents, visitors, and office workers.
  • Unless the city builds a new fire station in the neighborhood, these lives could be at stake, the president of New York’s firefighters union told Business Insider.

New York’s largest private real-estate development, the 18-million-square-foot Hudson Yards, can expect a flood of locals, tourists, and office workers at its grand opening on Friday.

For the first time, members of the public will be able to climb aboard Vessel, a 150-foot-tall honeycomb-shaped art installation in the public square; dine at the complex’s high-end restaurants, including Momofuku and D&D London; and browse its luxury retail stores.

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Mar 14, 2019

Liz Parrish Wants to Live Forever

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

In 2015, in a secret medical procedure carried out in Bogota, Colombia, the 44-year-old woman got dozens of experimental gene-therapy injections. Why? Because Parrish, the creator of a longevity company called BioViva, believes that science is on the cusp of delivering radically longer lifespans—and she wants to help bring on the revolution.

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Mar 14, 2019

Senescent Cells in Bone Marrow Contribute to Immunosenescence

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Today, we want to point out a new study suggesting that senescent cells in bone marrow cell populations contribute to the decline of the hematopoietic system, particularly the hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) that live in the bone marrow and produce our blood cells [1].

The hematopoietic system and immunosenescence

The hematopoietic system is the system of organs and tissues, including the bone marrow, spleen, thymus and lymph nodes, involved in the creation of cellular blood components.

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Mar 14, 2019

Kiwano rolls out updated self-balancing monowheel electric scooter

Posted by in category: transportation

When launched in 2017, the KO1 monowheel scooter – a kind of cross between a Segway and a Solowheel – offered a range of 20 miles and a top speed of 20 mph. The KO1+ has a very similar look to the original, but is quite a different animal.

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Mar 14, 2019

Inactive Ingredients in Drugs May Be Less Inactive Than You Think

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

Egg protein, gelatin etc, ha. I can imagine loads of curling toes among vegetarians vegans and investors alike…ranging from pure horror to utter excitement…yay vegan and gluten free pills… a hole in the market.


The medicines you take contain a soup of active and inactive ingredients.

Active ingredients are the ones that provide a therapeutic benefit, while inactive ingredients are just that — inactive — meaning they don’t react in the body and are instead there to enhance the properties of the medication itself, such as its taste, appearance and ability to be absorbed by the body. [7 Bizarre Drug Side Effects]

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Mar 14, 2019

Sound by the Pound: Surprising Discovery Hints Sonic Waves Carry Mass

Posted by in category: futurism

Some sounds might possess a tiny but measurable amount of negative gravitational mass.

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Mar 14, 2019

Ethicist Warns: Future AI Could Take Revenge for How We Treat It Now

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

If machines become truly intelligent or sentient, an ethicist at Victoria University Wellington named Nicholas Agar is sharing a dire warning: future machines may want payback for how we treat their insentient ancestors today.


Should robots ever become sentient, they may be pissed at how much we insult Alexa today.

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Mar 14, 2019

5 of Einstein’s Most Epic Fails That Prove He Was Human

Posted by in category: futurism

Albert Einstein was one of the world’s most important leading scientists of all time. His work laid the foundations for some of the most important human discoveries of all time. Yet even a man of his talents was not immune from making errors, from time to time.


Einstein was a revolutionary thinker, but even he made mistakes from time to time. Here are 5 of Einstein’s biggest fails.

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Mar 14, 2019

T-Suite Podcast: The dawning of the age of cognitive computing

Posted by in category: computing

In today’s T-Suite Podcast, a talk with “Content Wrangler” Scott Abel shows how far cognitive computing has progressed since 2016.

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Mar 14, 2019

Your “Second Brain” is In Your Gut

Posted by in category: neuroscience

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