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How The 1% Will Live After The End Of The World | VICE on HBO (Bonus)

Posted by Derick Lee in existential risks

Dec 22
2018

Throughout human history, doomsayers — people predicting the end of the world — have lived largely on the fringes of society. Today, a doomsday industry is booming thanks to TV shows, movies, hyper-partisan politics and the news media. With the country’s collective anxiety on the rise, even the nation’s wealthiest people are jumping on board, spending millions of dollars on survival readiness in preparation for unknown calamities. We sent Thomas Morton to see how people across the country are planning to weather the coming storm.

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AIDS cure? MAJOR breakthrough as scientists succeed in destroying HIV-infected cells

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biotech/medical, innovation

Dec 21
2018

SCIENTISTS have made a major breakthrough which they hope could lead to a cure to HIV and AIDS.

69 hours after launch, the crew reached the far side of the Moon

Posted by Michael Lance in space

Dec 21
2018

They glimpsed Earth outside their windows. “It’s a beautiful, beautiful view,” Frank Borman said to Mission Control. That Christmas Eve broadcast ended 1968 on a hopeful note, bringing a reminder of the all encompassing curiosity stitched into the fabric of all humans. Sink into the far side by celebrating our #Apollo50 Anniversary here: https://go.nasa.gov/2EGQJJX

Read slowly Photo

Posted by Michael Lance in futurism

Dec 21
2018

On this day 50 years ago, Apollo 8 was en route to the Moon on the first human flight to lunar orbit

Posted by Michael Lance in space travel

Dec 21
2018

Three days later, on Dec. 24, astronauts Bill Anders, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell became the first people to see the Moon’s far side, did a memorable reading from Genesis and took this famous Earthrise photo. Discover more about our #Apollo50 anniversary: https://go.nasa.gov/2EImzGq

The man turning China into a quantum superpower

Posted by Shane Hinshaw in quantum physics

Dec 21
2018

He’s China’s “father of quantum.”

Jian-Wei Pan, China’s “father of quantum”, is masterminding its drive for global leadership in technologies that could change entire industries.

Mars Express beams back images of ice-filled Korolev crater

Posted by Genevieve Klien in space

Dec 21
2018

The stunning Korolev crater in the northern lowlands of Mars is filled with ice all year round owing to a trapped layer of cold Martian air that keeps the water frozen.

The 50-mile-wide crater contains 530 cubic miles of water ice, as much as Great Bear Lake in northern Canada, and in the centre of the crater the ice is more than a mile thick.

Images beamed back from the red planet show that the lip around the impact crater rises high above the surrounding plain. When thin Martian air then passes over the crater, it becomes trapped and cools to form an insulating layer that prevents the ice from melting.

Neural Stem Cells Grown From Blood Could Revolutionize Medicine

Posted by Shane Hinshaw in biotech/medical, neuroscience, quantum physics

Dec 21
2018

New nerve cells represent a quantum jump for regenerative therapy.

Unlike other reprogrammed stem cells, these can continue to multiply in a lab.

Guitarist plays through brain surgery

Posted by Shane Hinshaw in biotech/medical, neuroscience

Dec 21
2018

Remarkable! 🎸 🎶

Scientists Find A Brain Circuit That Could Explain Seasonal Depression

Posted by Genevieve Klien in health, neuroscience

Dec 21
2018

Specialized Cells In Eye Linked To Mood Regions In Brain : Shots — Health News Research suggests the winter blues are triggered by specialized light-sensing cells in the retina that communicate directly with brain areas involved in mood.