Archives for the ‘Transhumanism’ Category

Clone yourself virtually

So you’re a blogger huh? Maybe even a semi-popular blogger who gets a lot of random e-mail queries from the public.
You may be interested in MyCyberTwin, a tool that lets you “clone yourself” on your blog. Visitors can then ask your clone questions and get responses that reflect what you might really say. The service [...]

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Overweight people die younger

More news for the socialists to rejoice in: fat people die younger. Great fodder for the crowd that believes they need to legislate what other folks do with their bodies.
If you’re a fat smoker, you stand to lose 13 years on the average:
Dutch researchers studying Americans found that there’s a lot to lose for [...]

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Boning up on advances in technology

Modern societies produce new things that are simply amazing:
A team of researchers in the Materials Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has managed to imitate the complex structures found in ice and mollusk shells, and the ultra-strong material could lead to everything from stronger artificial bone to airplane parts.
Anyone who has had a hip [...]

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Freedom of research, freedom of treatment

Many transhumanists worry that the United States is losing its technology edge due to increasingly onerous and counterproductive government regulations. Including these guys:
The first meeting of the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research took place in Rome earlier this month. Heart in the right place, but shackling freedom to the modern (increasingly socialist, increasingly [...]

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Geron wants to test stem-cell spinal cord treatment in humans

Believe it or not, some small groups of humans spend their time constructively. They follow paths that benefit all of us or many of us. We call them inventors. They should be honored by society. They are such a minority, yet they give the greatest benefit to the rest of us of any group I [...]

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