A transhumanism book about your future
Zhavoronkov views aging not as inevitable, but a failure of science to give people a few more years. “Large pharma doesn’t view aging as a disease yet,” he complains. It’s questionable if extending life in itself is a particularly commendable or noble goal of scientific research. There are already a…
Do you think all this talk about the singularity is ridiculous? You know, that a moment in time sometime between 2035 and 2045 where progress is so rapid it outstrips humans’ ability to comprehend it. Some suggest at this point, the future of mankind will be redesigned by non-human intelligence. Do…
Watch author Arthur C. Clarke predict the future in 1964 – see what he says about 2014 in this two part video:
Lin Fa Wang of Singapore’s Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, also known as the “Bat Man”, has been trying to understand why bats live a long life relative to their size and have an uncanny ability to avoid disease. Wang’s most recent study sequenced the entire genome of two distantly…
A longevity study by Stanford University, conducted by Dr. Lewis Terman in 1921, chronicled the lives of 1,500 Californians to determine the contributing factors to human longevity. In 2011, they published the results disbarring a large number of common assumptions: Myth: Optimism and Positive Thinking Extends Life The Assumption: Cheerful…
One of the often overlooked elements of the Mediterranean diet is the content of what is now days called supergrains. These include Farro, Freekah and other whole grains The diet says that grains, vegetables, and fruits should be eaten at most meals, because they are important sources of vitamins, minerals,…
The book “Super You: How Technology is Revolutionizing What it Means to Be Human” is now shipping! Order your copy in the US on Amazon.com – either the trade paperback version or the Kindle version. It was released for sale June 18, 2016 in the United States, and is available worldwide. Use…
Authors Andy Walker and Kay Walker have been signed to write the exciting new book Super You: How Technology is Revolutionizing What it Means to Be Human. To be published by Pearson Education in June of 2016. The project will cover the exciting and sometimes scary world of how humans are…
A typical person lives 28,835 days. Each one of us knows what a day (24 hours) feels like, and how long it takes, and how variable any day can feel. But 28,835 days is just a number—unless you count it out in jelly beans. Here’s some cool jelly bean facts…
A fascinating piece from Mental_Floss shows how humans may still be evolving in accordance with Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection. The piece suggests that the following are traits that show humans are still evolving: non-human milk drinking the slow disappearance of wisdom teeth disease resistance shrinking brains and blue…
