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SINGULARITY: Robotics, Genetic Engineering, Bioengineering, Extropianism, Postgenderism, Immortalism, Technogaianism, Transhumanism And Communitarianism Movement Towards A Brave New World Order Of The Ages!

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In Brookhaven Collider, Scientists Briefly Break a Law of Nature

Fog Decline Threatens California’s Towering Redwoods

I could give a fuck less! The fog in SF makes me want to kill myself half of the year...

HIV illness 'delayed by' herpes drug aciclovir: The HSV2 virus causes genital herpes. A common treatment for herpes can delay the need for HIV drugs in people with both infections, say US researchers.

Hormone oxytocin may help Asperger's patients

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Alexander McQueen, March 17, 1969 – Feb. 11, 2010

I cried real tears over Alexander McQueen. I'll never forget how he captivated my imagination beginning in middle school, thanks to fashion file, video fashion weekly and fashion tv on E! saturday mornings. He became so iconic that he will never really leave us. RIP

Move to merge Asperger's, autism in diagnostic manual stirs debate

StemCells, Inc. Announces First Human Neural Stem Cell Transplant in Landmark Myelination Disorder Trial

Should We Clone Neanderthals? The scientific, legal, and ethical obstacles

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Google seems to finally responding to complaints about the poor customer service for its Nexus One smartphones. The search giant has started offering limited phone support for Nexus One users, who till now could only ask for help by e-mail

(1-888-48-NEXUS)

I recently got the new google Nexus one phone, and I will say that I do love it. I never had an ifone but I did play with them enough to be able to say I know a lot about them.

Now if I could just figure out how to make it pick up the wireless connection in my house cause it has yet to work...

BOSTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have reversed the aging of blood stem cells through the influence of bone-forming cells known as osteoblasts.

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Partial Lunar Eclipse and Blue Moon New Year's Eve

On top of that, mercury and mars are in retrograde for this new years... perhaps it will be very extreme in some way. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

'Fountain of Youth' for Stem Cells? ScienceDaily (Dec. 28, 2009) — Researchers from the University of Hong Kong and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have published a study in the current issue of Cell Transplantation that explores ways to successfully keep stem cells "forever young" during implantation by slowing their growth, differentiation and proliferation.

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First Tourist Spaceship to Be Unveiled by Virgin Today

South Africa to Treat All HIV-Positive Babies

A Life of Its Own: Where will synthetic biology lead us?

Magnetic Nanoparticles To Simultaneously Diagnose, Monitor And Treat

Brain Waves Can 'Write' on a Computer in Early Tests, Researchers Show

Scientists develop pill that could spell an end to straighteners after identifying 'curly hair gene'

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"Big Bang" experiment advancing fast

In the Dark: Unusual Deep-Sea Species Documented

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Longevity Tied to Genes That Preserve Tips of Chromosomes

November 11, 2009 — (BRONX, NY) — A team led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found a clear link between living to 100 and inheriting a hyperactive version of an enzyme that rebuilds telomeres — the tip ends of chromosomes. The findings appear in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Stem Cells Turned into Precursors of Sperm and Eggs

Star explosion is most distant space object seen

Stem cell agency awards $230 million in grants

The Internet at 40: History Began With Its First Crash

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Lots more planets found outside solar system

NASA: Nibiru will not destroy the Earth in 2012

NASA photos show moon strike created plume

Just Chillin': Large Hadron Collider Cold and Ready to Start Up Again

The Future of Human Enhancement

A federal about-face on medical marijuana
New Justice Department guidelines order federal drug agents to cease arresting or charging patients, caregivers or suppliers who are conforming with state law.

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Will Our Robot Overlords Be Friendly?
Notes from the Singularity Summit in New York City.

Everyone should be in church on a Sunday...

"If artificial intelligence does not get here first, we're going to end up with uploaded humans."

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Water galore on Moon and Mars

What is regenerative medicine? Dr. Anthony Atala, director of Wake Forest’s program, shows Dr. Oz how his team is working to create cells, tissues and organs for patients who may need them…

Timeship: The Architecture of Immortality - Timeship will be the world's foremost laboratory for anti-aging research. Examines the creation of this remarkable building.

The Goodness Gene

My last name is Goodness, and I just stumbled accross this book. How could I have missed it?

Feathered fossils prove birds evolved from dinosaurs, say Chinese scientists

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The first real images of the electrons of a single atom have been captured by researchers at the Kharkov Institute for Physics and Technology in Ukraine, using a field-emission electron microscope (FEEM).

brought to you by kurzweilai.net!

Teenglish: From Frape to Neek the words used by teenagers that baffle adults

I'm constantly concerned that I won't be able to understand anything those fucking kids say! I already have problems, and I'm someone who is very "in touch" with what's young and cool- only so I can stay relevant.

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China breaks ground on space launch center

CDC: H1N1 flu vaccine to be ready by early October

Laskers Honor Work On Stem Cells, Gleevec & Smoking Ban

Men are producing 'super-sperm' too fast and powerful to impregnate women, as scientists blame evolution for infertility rise

Key master gene that can KILL cancer identified by British scientists

Capsules for Self-Healing Circuits
Nanotube-filled capsules could restore conductivity to damaged electronics.

Can Science Make Immortality a Reality?

Showerheads Harbor a Bounty of Germs

Federal researchers have found "intersex" fish -- with both male and female characteristics -- in rivers from the deep Southeast to the Pacific Northwest, indicating that a condition found in the Potomac River is more widespread than previously known.

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WIE: Some people would say that the meaning of life is, in a sense, defined by our mortality. That our limited life spans push us to spend the time we have wisely, creating a sense of urgency that tends to bring out our best qualities. That such things as courage and heroism, and even creativity, arise from the recognition that “I only have so much time here, and so does everybody else.” What would you say to the idea that if we were faced with the opportunity to live forever, we would quickly lose our edge, become lazy, start to take life for granted, and ultimately become more apathetic, self-centered, and indulgent?

RK: I think defining meaning in terms of death—saying that death gives life meaning—is to define us in terms of our limitations. In my mind, what's noble is the pursuit of knowledge, and that's going to expand through this exponential process along the law of accelerating returns. That's really the future of human life.

If you see human beings as no different than peaches on a tree that grow old and fall and die, then that view has merit. But there is something unique, after all, about humans. I mean, it's been said many times that science has thrown humanity off our pedestal of uniqueness and centrality. We discovered that the universe didn't revolve around the earth, that human beings were not anointed directly by God, and that we evolved from worms. And so we've continually had our egocentric view of the importance of humans shattered by these scientific insights. But there actually is one really important way in which humans are unique: We are the only the species that passes knowledge down from generation to generation, where that knowledge base is growing exponentially, and where we go beyond our limitations. Whereas other animals can be seen statically using tools, they don't create technology that evolves. You know, the combination of our cognitive capability and our opposable appendage, the thumb, enabled us to change our world. And that's what's ennobling, and gives life meaning.

Up until now, we've had no opportunity to circumvent our mortality. So we had no alternative but to rationalize this tragedy—which is what death is—saying, “Oh, it's really a good thing. And it's ennobling; it gives life meaning.” A large part of religion is to rationalize this tragic loss of knowledge and skill and personality as something positive. But really, what's positive about human beings is our pursuit of new frontiers.

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Rocket Booster: Let The Private Sector Help NASA

Deep Sea Worms Release Glow-Bombs When Disturbed

Scientists make bendable, transparent LEDs—without organics

Life Expectancy Still Heading Higher
U.S. Life Expectancy Rose By More Than a Year From 1997 to 2007

Porn studios denounced for not requiring condoms

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NASA: Use of robots 'very successful' in Endeavour's mission

The spacewalking shuttle crew going that extra 125,000 miles to build a £1.45 billion research lab that's out of this world

Evolutionary rethink as scientists claim our most distant ancestors came from lakes and not the sea

Artificial brain could be reality in just 10 years, scientists claim

Members of the government panel reviewing NASA’s human spaceflight program said Tuesday that the life of the International Space Station should be extended past its planned demise in 2016.

Camp faithless: Britain's first atheist summer camp

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Jackson's body to be on public view starting Friday

How Old Do You Feel? It Depends on Your Age

Doctors warn against 'swine flu parties'

too funny!

Teen Fatalism Linked to Risky Behavior: Survey Shows 15% of Teens Believe They Will Die Young

I'm a fatalist, but only philosophically...

Daily sex 'best for good sperm'

Gay Rights Groups Praise Pending End to HIV Travel Ban

NASA manager pitches a cheaper return-to-moon plan

Wheelchair steered using brain waves developed by Toyota

At last! Age of the universal phone charger dawns

Geron shares jump on GE stem cell pact

http://www.fiercebiotech.com

Solar orbiter Ulysses ends mission after 18 years

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Lunar satellite slips into orbit with 40-minute 'burn'

'Stem cells tourism' in Germany

omfg, I know someone who has done this! My ex-bf went to Germany to buy stem cells from the x-cell center... becoming my first ever bioaugmented boyfriend. I'm glad I got to experience this social trend before BBC blogged about it.

New source of stem cells

Stem cell treatment gives hope to Crohn's disease sufferers

Northern California biotech Geron made history this year when it received FDA approval to test its stem cell therapy in people with spinal cord injuries. Now that the federal ban on using government money to support embryonic stem cell research has been lifted, local scientists hope to see their early stage research reach the clinic, too.

Before the federal government decides on the process for approving applicants, the state will begin loaning money to for-profit biotechs with promising new applications for stem cell research.

Stem Cells Used to Grow Hearts: Cool New Pics and Vid from singularityhub

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Vaccine Fights Melanoma
Experimental Vaccine Shrinks Tumors in People With Deadly Skin Cancer

Cycling event for AIDS stops in Santa Cruz

-> I saw AIDS lifecycle on LOGO, but have known 1 or 2 people who has done it in the past.

GM Topples Into Bankruptcy: What’s Next for the Chevy Volt?

-> all the news blogs keep saying that the latest GM bankrupcies are going to fuck the whole world's economies up even more!

Most Common Brain Cancer May Originate In Neural Stem Cells

The Essential Guide to Stem Cells

"Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells: These cells are as close as you'll get to a fountain of youth. Inserting genes responsible for embryonic pluripotency into adult skin cells effectively rewinds their developmental clock and gives them embryonic-like powers to morph into heart, cardiac and other tissue types. An added bonus: No embryos necessary."