Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
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The final trailer for the final movie. It's going to be hard to meet expectations but the trailer looks pretty awesome.
The History of Science Fiction
Updated: 2011-06-30 19:51:28Kyle Munkittrick Form Follows Function: Prosthetics and Artificial Organs that Break the Human Mold
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As we are exposed to more and more prosthetics that get the job done instead of acting as awkward disguises, the more our brains flex and flow around the idea of what a human looks like.
Choice
Updated: 2011-06-30 19:51:21Professor Renata Salecl explores the paralyzing anxiety and dissatisfaction surrounding limitless choice. Does the freedom to be the architects of our own lives actually hinder rather than help us? Does our preoccupation with choosing and consuming actually obstruct social change?Thoughts on Managing Change
Updated: 2011-06-30 19:51:21Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond is a world-renowned expert on ancient societies. His now famous book, Collapse, is a study of the choices societies have made throughout history in the face of change—climate change, as well as others—and the consequences of such choices.Vacation in Libertarian Paradise
Updated: 2011-06-30 19:51:21May not be as good as living on a floating barge of garbage in the middle of the ocean, harassed by pirates. But in Somalia you get cholera….Melanie Swan Emerging Health Technologies: Interventional anti-aging
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The focus of the 40th annual meeting of the American Aging Association, held a few weeks ago in North Carolina, was emerging concepts in the mechanisms of aging.
IEET Readers Take Climate Change Seriously
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Fewer than one in eight of those who responded to a recently concluded IEET poll are confident that emerging technologies will easily be able to manage climate change. Almost three-fourths of our readers say that urgent steps should be taken to replace fossil fuels and/or prepare mitigation strategies.
Kyle Munkittrick The AI Singularity is Dead. Long Live the Cybernetic Singularity!
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The nerd echo chamber is reverberating this week with the furious debate over Charlie Stross’ doubts about the possibility of an artificial “human-level intelligence” explosion – also known as the Singularity.
Rationality Minicamp a Success
Updated: 2011-06-22 00:19:44Starting on May 28th, the Singularity Institute ran a one-week Rationality Training Camp. Our exit survey shows that the camp was a smashing success, surpassing the expectations of the organizers and the participants. Knowledge and skills taught and practiced include: Testing one’s beliefs, updating on evidence Designing and modifying desires Avoiding rationalization and overcoming biases Using probability theory, Fermi calculations, [...]Teens & Twenties 2011 Gathering
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Depressed Metabolism The Science of Personal Survival Skip to content Home About Authors What is cryonics Sitemap Gerald Feinberg on physics and life extension Teens Twenties 2011 Gathering Posted on June 21, 2011 by Ben Best On the evening of Thursday , May 19 and on Friday , May 20, I attended the 2011 2nd annual Teens Twenties young cryonicists gathering which preceded the Suspended Animation , Inc . conference in Fort Lauderdale , Florida . The Teens Twenties gathering for young cryonicists having human cryopreservation contracts in place with some cryonics organization is an offshoot of the cryonics Asset Preservation Group . Like the Asset Preservation Group , this event was created-by and is run-by Cairn Idun . Bill Faloon funds Teens Twenties through a Life Extension FoundationGerald Feinberg on physics and life extension
Updated: 2011-06-20 01:31:03Depressed Metabolism The Science of Personal Survival Skip to content Home About Authors What is cryonics Sitemap Medico-Legal Aspects of Human Cryopreservation Optimization Teens Twenties 2011 Gathering Gerald Feinberg on physics and life extension Posted on June 19, 2011 by Aschwin de Wolf Gerald Feinberg a Columbia university physicist who , among other things , hypothesized the existence of the muon neutrino , had a strong interest in the future of science and life extension . In 1966 he published the article Physics and Life Prolongation” in Physics Today in which he reviews cryobiology research with the aim of realizing medical time travel Unlike most of his scientific colleagues , Feinberg recognized that it might be possible for people dying today to benefit from future advances inForesight @ Google — Upcoming Conference
Updated: 2011-06-06 19:23:35Interested in emerging technologies? Fascinated by the potential in transformative nanotech? Come explore the future with… FORESIGHT@GOOGLE 25th Anniversary Conference Celebration and Reunion Weekend Google HQ in Mountain View, CA June 25-26 2011 A rockstar lineup of speakers and panelists include: • WILLIAM ANDREGG - Founder/CEO of Halcyon Molecular • MIKE GARNER, PhD - Chair of ITRS Emerging Research Materials • MIKE NELSON - CTO [...]