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What’s up in the June night skies? Find out how you can see Jupiter at its biggest and brightest, while Mercury and Mars appear ultra-close + how you can observe the Moon’s tilted orbit. Watch & find out more on the latest episode of NASA’s What’s Up:

Stasis Foundatioin — People

Posted by Paul Battista in life extension

Jun 3
2019

Stephen Valentine is the architect for Timeship is creating the Timeship Building with Stephen Valentine. Timeship researches life extension and the Timeship Building will be a life extension facility. Read more on Stephen Valentine.

This is What a Sunset Looks Like from Space

Posted by Alberto Lao in space

Jun 3
2019

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst shot this photo from the International Space Station showing what a sunset on Earth looks like from high above in space.

The photo shows a long stretch of clouds bathed in red and orange sunlight as the shadow of nighttime follows close behind.

CRISPR baby mutation significantly increases mortality

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biotech/medical, genetics

Jun 3
2019

Six months ago, a Chinese scientist announced that he had edited the genomes of two babies born last year. The germline edits with CRISPR-Cas9 supposedly changed the CCR5 gene to prevent HIV from invading immune cells. An analysis of records in the U.K. Biobank shows that having two copies of this mutation is associated with a 21 percent increase in mortality.

Daily briefing: Stunning science images shortlisted for the Wellcome photography prize

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biotech/medical, education, science

Jun 3
2019

Amazing science, technology and medicine photography, how to explain a bad year to grad schools and a call to make research misconduct reports public.

Aging Analytics Agency Photo 7

Posted by Franco Cortese in life extension

Jun 3
2019

Top-80 longevity influencers in california by aging analytics agency.

Anne Corwin Atul Butte, M.D., Ph.D. Aubrey de Grey William Faloon Bill Andrews Cynthia Kenyon David A. Kekich David Botstein Eric Topol Eric Verdin Gordon J Lithgow Gregory Fahy Jim Strole

Link to Report: https://www.aginganalytics.com/longevity-in-california

Can The Science and Philosophy of Information Solve The Problem of Time?

Posted by Alex Vikoulov in biotech/medical, entertainment, science, space travel

Jun 3
2019

In our day and age when the science and philosophy of information start to eclipse traditional disciplines on all fronts, the importance of asking the right kinds of questions in light of a new rhetoric cannot be overestimated. Hereafter you can find three videos with their transcripts related to D-Theory of Time, or Digital Presentism, that I cover extensively in my new book The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution, as well as in my just-released ebook The Physics of Time: D-Theory of Time & Temporal Mechanics.

Will We Transcend The Temporal Dimension?: If you’re like me who loves thought-provoking sci-fi literature and movies, Interstellar and Arrival are both about transcending temporality, one through physics and the other through language. Arguably, these two outlooks on TIME reflect our current understanding as the most plausible ways to overcome the grips of impermanence.

If we look back at evolutionary emergence on our planet, the simplest organisms like primordial mitochondria, the front-runners at the onset of biological life, were able to perceive and move towards nutrients and away from environmental threats in an essentially one-dimensional existence.