Google long has been an advocate of…
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02
2010
U.S. Solar Market to Double in the Next Year
Posted by: Frank Whittemore in Accelerating Change, EconomicsIn a few years, the United States is likely to be…
Click here for the article found in MIT’s Technology Review.
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02
2010
TEDxTalks
Posted by: Frank Whittemore in Singularity Commentary, Event Coverage, Ethics/DangersAbout TEDx, x=independently organize event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-
organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.
At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep
discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized
events are branded TEDx, where x=independently organized TED event.
The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but
individual TEDx events are self-organized.*
(*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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02
2010
U.S. Scientists Given Access to Cloud Computing
Posted by: Frank Whittemore in Event Coverage, Advanced Computing, Scientific ResearchThe National Science Foundation and the Microsoft Corporation have agreed to offer American scientific researchers…
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Henry Markram is attempting to reverse engineer an entire human brain, one neuron at a time. This piece is an introduction to director Noah Hutton’s 10-year film-in-the-making that will chronicle the development of The Blue Brain Project, a landmark endeavor in modern neuroscience.
Bluebrain | Year One from Couple 3 Films on Vimeo.
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02
2010
Get More Magnesium, Get Smarter
Posted by: Frank Whittemore in The Brain, Scientific ResearchThose crazy scientists, they keep finding ways to make rats smarter. Brainy rodents, however, may lead to the creation of smarter humans…
A new compound, magnesium-L-threonate (MgT)…
Click here for the entire article found on the Singularity Hub. You may need to scroll down to see it.
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02
2010
Spray-On Liquid Glass is about to Revolutionize Almost Everything
Posted by: Frank Whittemore in Event Coverage, NanotechnologySpray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and can protect virtually any surface against almost any damage from hazards such as water, UV radiation, dirt, heat, and bacterial infections. The coating is also flexible and breathable, which…
Click here for the full article found on the PhysOrg.com website.
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02
2010
Craig Venter Talks about Creating Synthetic Life!
Posted by: Frank Whittemore in Event Coverage, Scientific Research, Genetics, LongevityClick here
So you’d like to have a better Internet?
The National Science Foundation wants one.
Click here to read about how the NSF plans to do it in an article titled “NSF Earmarks $30M for Game-Changing Internet Research”.
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01
2010
Fascinated with Synthetic Biology
Posted by: Frank Whittemore in Just for Fun, Genetics, Accelerating ChangeMackenzie Cowell is one of a group of amateurs exploring the techniques of synthetic biology which applies the tools and methodologies of engineering and computer science to the field of biology.
Click here to view the fascinating video found on the Thoughtware TV website.
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01
2010
Dr. Michio Kaku on Nanotechnology
Posted by: Frank Whittemore in Nanotechnology, LongevityVideo Clipped from BBC Visions of the Future The Quantum Revolution, with Dr. Michio Kaku discussing Nanotechnology.
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01
2010
Support Is Growing For Singularity University
Posted by: Frank Whittemore in Singularity UniversityI suspected that it would be so I went to their website to take a look. What I found is a growing list of Partners & Supporters.
Click here to take a look for yourself.
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2010
Three Reasons Why the iPad WON’T Kill Amazon’s Kindle
Posted by: Frank Whittemore in Event CoverageClick here for a link to the New York Times article.
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2010
Three Reasons Why the iPad WILL Kill Amazon’s Kindle
Posted by: Frank Whittemore in Event CoverageClick here for a link to the New York Times article.
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This time, you say to yourself, this time I will do 50 chin-ups every day or skip dessert or call my mother every Friday. It’s time to do those things that I know, I really, really know I should do.
And then you don’t.
According to British psychologist Richard Wiseman, 88 percent of all resolutions end in failure. Those are his findings from a 2007 University of Hertfordshire study of more than 3,000 people.
How come so many attempts at willpower lose both their will and their power?
In our Radiolab excerpt on Morning Edition, with my co-host, Jad Abumrad, we propose an answer …
Jonah Lehrer, one of our regular reporters (he writes all the time about the brain), told Jad and me about an experiment involving the prefrontal cortex, located just behind the forehead. It’s the brain area largely responsible for willpower. This hunk of brain tissue, he says, has greatly expanded over the last few hundred-thousand years, but “it probably hasn’t expanded enough.” The reason our willpower is so often weak, he suggests, is because this bit of brain lacks a certain (how shall we put this?) … muscularity. more>>>
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