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Sep 14, 2018
Plants have their own kind of nervous system
Posted by Mike Ruban in category: media & arts
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Model mustard plant uses the same signals as animals to relay distress.
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Sep 3, 2018
Achieve Audiophile Superiority With These Streaming Amps
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: media & arts
Streaming music doesn’t have to mean compromised sound. These hi-fi amps can help you find cloud-connected aural ecstasy.
1. Naim Audio Uniti Star
Best for: Streamcurious audiophiles.
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Film has always had a special place in my heart. It’s helped me through so many stages in my life.
I’ve felt so unmotivated these past few years and decided to work on something that would inspire me.
Aug 3, 2018
Professor Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Posted by Steve Nichols in categories: education, ethics, media & arts, transhumanism
https://paper.li/e-1437691924#/
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, Ph.D. is a German metahumanist philosopher, Nietzsche scholar, philosopher of music, and an authority in the field of ethics of emerging technologies.
Stefan teaches philosophy at John Cabot University in Rome and is director and cofounder of the Beyond Humanism Network, Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET), Research Fellow at the Ewha Institute for the Humanities at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, and Visiting Fellow at the Ethics Centre of the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, where he was also Visiting Professor during the Summer of 2016. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Posthuman Studies.
Jul 28, 2018
Science Fiction Cities: How our future visions influence the cities we build
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: innovation, media & arts
For over a century science fiction filmmaking has presented us with depictions of our future cities. Some have been bright, shiny and positive, while others have been dark, dirty and rough. As we look forward to a 21st century filled with massive mega-cities, and extraordinary technological innovation, we must ask how are our science fiction visions influencing the cities we build, and what can we learn from some of these prescient fictional texts?
Jun 24, 2018
How Virtual Reality Will Help Shape Our Psychedelic Future
Posted by B.J. Murphy in categories: 3D printing, augmented reality, economics, education, media & arts, robotics/AI, virtual reality
The famous psychologist Timothy Leary once referred to himself as a “surfer,” envisioning a future where, “[t]o study biology, you can press a button and make yourself part of the human body. You can become a white blood cell and learn about the circulatory system by traveling through an artery. You can call up the Prado Museum in Madrid and study Goya’s paintings.”
When I think about the future, I envision mass technological disruptions across the entire landscape. Artificial intelligence (AI) being embedded into the very fabric of our architecture and institutions, 3D printing transforming our socio-economic system from scarcity to abundance, and virtual reality/augmented reality (VR/AR) unleashing infinite potential in shaping our perceptions of reality.
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Jun 21, 2018
Dr. Vadim Gladyshev – Harvard University
Posted by Nicola Bagalà in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, education, life extension, media & arts
An interview with Dr. Vadim Gladyshev, Harvard University.
We have recently had occasion to have a chat with Dr. Vadim Gladyshev, Professor of Medicine and Director of Redox Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts. He is an expert in aging and redox biology and is known for his characterization of the human selenoproteome. His research laboratory focuses on comparative genomics, selenoproteins, redox biology, and, naturally, aging and lifespan control.
Dr. Gladyshev graduated from Moscow State University, in Moscow, Russia; his postdoctoral studies in the 1990s took place at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the National Cancer Institute, in Bethesda, Maryland. Even when he was young, he was very much interested in chemistry and experimental science: he twice won the regional Olympiad in chemistry and graduated from high school with a gold medal. He also graduated with the highest honors from Moscow State University. This enviable track record is even more impressive considering that Dr. Gladyshev completed music school and high school at the same time and became a chess player equivalent to national master during his college years.
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May 22, 2018
Orbits of Jupiter Moons Transformed into Mind-Bending Optical Illusions and Music
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: media & arts, space
System-sounds.com converts the orbits of Jupiter moons Io, Europa, Ganymede and Calisto into a mind-bending visual and audio experience.
May 11, 2018
Data storage on DNA: Where Silicon Valley meets biotech
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, food, genetics, media & arts
In the heart of San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood, which not long ago was dirt lots and warehouses, Emily Leproust is cooking up what she — and $209 million worth of investor cash — believes is the future of DNA production.
Leproust is CEO of Twist Bioscience, a 5-year-old biotech company striving to make the production of synthetic DNA — which is used in fragrances, genetically modified foods and pharmaceutical drugs — cheaper, faster and smaller.
The same lab-manufactured DNA, Leproust hopes, could also transform the way data, from music to medical records, is stored.
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