A transhumanism book about your future
The other day I took a 15 minute Facebook break mid-work as I usually do when I need to stop writing and let my mind wander. (You know what I mean, you do it to!) Appearing on my social feed was a CNN article that featured the photographic work of more »
Gino Tubaro wants to provide 3D printable prosthetic hands to anyone who wants one for free. Atomic Labs, his company, has designed a simple prosthetic hand that can be printed in 3-D by anyone with access to a 3D printer. Read more: [CLICK HERE]
How do you become started? Engage in these 24 daily activities to boost your intelligence: Click for the full infographic from Business Insider. [Sourced from http://www.businessinsider.com/24-daily-habits-that-will-make-you-smarter-2015-6]
Two hundred million years ago, our mammalian ancestors developed a new brain feature: the neocortex. This stamp-sized piece of tissue – when wrapped around a brain the size of a walnut – is the key to what humanity has become. Futurist and author Ray Kurzweil suggests, we should get ready more »
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 more »
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 more »
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 more »
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 more »
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, more »
