2 Department of Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine;
3Libin Cardiovascular Institute;
4Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Cumming School of Medicine;
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The Cells In Your Body Fade With Age, But There May Be a Way to Reverse It
To properly understand aging, we have to understand what is slowly unravelling in individual cells.
What is it that makes our cells become less efficient and more vulnerable to disease over time, and eventually break down?
A new study, led by researchers from the Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Germany, details new findings about how the energy engine rooms of cells – organelles known as mitochondria – begin to slow down over the years.
Donald J. Robertson on How to Think Like Socrates in the Age of AI
About halfway through this interview, my guest stopped answering my questions and started asking me his.
I have recorded 300+ conversations on SingularityFM. Being cross-examined on my own show by the man who literally wrote the book on the Socratic method was not in my notes.
Donald J. Robertson is a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist, a founding member of Modern Stoicism, and president of the Plato’s Academy Center in Athens. His book, How to Think Like Socrates, makes a claim most of us have forgotten: ancient philosophy was never a body of theory. It was a training regime for the mind.
We recorded this in January 2025. Watching it back now, it reads less like a conversation about #Philosophy and more like a warning about the last eighteen months.
Socrates refused to write anything down. He distrusted a technology that let people carry around answers they had not personally earned.
Twenty-five centuries later, we have machines that will hand us any answer we want, instantly, in fluent and confident prose.
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Cancer Is Quantum — and That Could Change How We Treat It
Beneath cancer’s genetic chaos, tumor cells may be confined to just a handful of recurring states, revealing a simpler path to treatment.
Cancer is often defined by its complexity: countless mutations, shifting cell populations, and tumors that evolve under pressure. But Andrea Califano’s research points to a surprising possibility: that beneath all that variation, cancer cells may be confined to only a handful of stable states.
It is this hidden order that led Califano, a physicist by training and now a cancer researcher, to describe cancer as a “quantum disease.” The comparison is not literal; rather, it reflects the idea that tumor cells may occupy discrete biological states, much as electrons are limited to specific energy levels in an atom.
Japanese startup bets Iron Man-inspired homes can beat humanoids
Tokyo-based startup MW is offering homes with built-in robotic housekeeping arms, a counter to a global embrace of humanoids.
MW aims to sell its first robot-equipped home in Tokyo by 2028 and build as many as 10,000 units a year by 2035, the equivalent of 5% of new homes now being built in Japan, according to CEO Shuzo Narita.
Japan helped pioneer bipedal robots decades ago, but MW is taking a different path from the humanoid boom now sweeping China and much of the rest of the world. Instead of trying to build a human-shaped machine capable of navigating obstacles in a lived-in space, the startup is embedding robotics into buildings. It’s betting that specialized machines attached to ceilings and walls can more effectively tackle household chores.
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