• A Review of "The Singularity"

    Updated: 2012-10-31 22:35:56
    A documentary film entitled The Singularity will be released tomorrow. It is the latest in a line of works from recent years to examine the near future of technology and its implications: a convergence of biotechnology, ever-increasing computing power, and molecular nanotechnology means that we will become capable of engineering ourselves to much the same degree as we presently choose to engineer our surroundings. Why would we stick with the flaky, error-prone, and short-lived evolved version of human biology when far better and more cost-effective replacements can be built? Here is a short review: Doug Wolens' latest documentary, released 1...

  • More Mitochondrially Targeted Antioxidant Results

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:30:04
    The mitochondria in our cells generate damaging oxidative byproducts as a result of their operation, and that is the first step in a long process that contributes to degenerative aging. Researchers have shown that localizing antioxidants to the mitochondria can reduce this damage and thus modestly slow aging and extend life in laboratory animals. Most antioxidants do not find their way to mitochondria, however, and have no effect on long term health or aging. Thus there has been some interest in recent years in designing compounds that do localize to mitochondria. One research group works on the mitochondrially targeted antioxidant...

  • Video: Aubrey de Grey at the University of Delaware

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:30:03
    Aubrey de Grey of the SENS Foundation is an advocate for the development of rejuvenation biotechnology; he gives a great many presentations in the course of any given year, mostly in Europe and the US. Earlier this month he was invited to the University of Delaware by the Socratic Club there to talk about the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS). Video of the presentation was recently uploaded to YouTube: Dr. Aubrey de Grey from the SENS Foundation gives a talk on regenerative medicine at the University of Delaware on October 2, 2012. He is introduced by Marvin Whitaker, who...

  • Exercise Improves Cognitive Function

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:30:03
    Following on from a recent post on exercise and the aging brain, here is yet another study to show that improvements in cognitive function can be brought about by regular exercise and its consequent effects on body composition, metabolism, and other line items. Use it or lose it, as they say: A regular exercise routine can make you fitter than ever - mentally fit. In a new study, previously sedentary adults were put through four months of high-intensity interval training. At the end, their cognitive functions - the ability to think, recall and make quick decisions - had improved significantly....

  • NCBI ROFL: Republican women look more feminine than Democrats. | Discoblog

    Updated: 2012-10-29 23:00:41
    : . Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS NCBI ROFL : Endometriosis : hot or not NCBI ROFL : Hotspots’ for aggression in licensed drinking . venues NCBI ROFL : Republican women look more feminine than . Democrats Appearance-based politics : Sex-typed facial cues communicate political party affiliation Consequential political judgments often rely on facial appearance , yet the facial cues that compel such judgments remain unspecified . We predicted that judgments of political party affiliation , and by extension their accuracy , rely on the sex-typicality of facial cues i.e . the degree of facial masculinity and

  • Ten million | Not Exactly Rocket Science

    Updated: 2012-10-28 16:00:30
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS I’ve got your missing links right here 27 October 2012 Breaking habits with a flash of light Ten million Sometimes , when you have insomnia and you’ve read the entire internet and you idly check your blog stats , something nice pops up . Not Exactly Rocket Science has been with Discover since March 2010, and at some point today , it will hit it 10 millionth page view since being with the site . Hooray I have the smile of a proud . father Share October 28th , 2012 by Ed Yong in Personal 5 comments RSS feed Trackback 5 Responses to Ten million” 1. Madhusudan Says : October 28th ,

  • Special Registration Discount - Emtech MIT 2012

    Updated: 2012-10-22 17:30:00
    Sponsored by MIT Technology Review, the EmTech MIT conference covers important innovations in energy, IT, bio, and the Web, and examines their impact.

  • Preserving and inferring

    Updated: 2012-10-17 17:31:55
    Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics Home About Organization What is cryonics Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics Depressed Metabolism Blog Mailing Lists Sitemap Preserving and inferring 17. October 2012 Comments Off Categories : Cryonics Science Written by : Aschwin de Wolf on October 17, 2012. A common complaint against cryonics is that existing cryopreservation technologies may not be good enough to preserve the ultrastructure of the human brain . Advocates of cryonics often object that such views do not reflect actual inspection of the evidence of cryopreserved brains but instead reflect misconceptions about freezing” and ice formation rupturing cells . But the more fundamental misconception rests on the view that for cryonics to work flawless preservation of the brain is absolutely .

  • Nanotechnology Education: Four Ways You Can Make A Contribution

    Updated: 2012-10-12 19:14:17
    Scientists, engineers, and enthusiasts can help bolster the understanding of and enthusiasm for nanotechnology in local communities with a little help from National Chemistry Week (October 21st-27th) and other user-friendly, volunteer programs.

  • Review of molecular machines for nanotechnology

    Updated: 2012-10-05 18:41:47
    A brief article reviews several types of molecular machines that chemists have built to mimic biology and provide movement for future types of nanotechnology.

  • Nanomaterials characterization course at Foothill College-NASA Ames

    Updated: 2012-09-26 17:17:34
    An online course coupled with hands on training in Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy and Transmission Electron Microscopy given in Mountain View, California, is being offered by Foothill College and NASA-ASL (NASA-Ames).

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