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Ed Boyden: A light switch for neurons

Posted on May 18, 2012 by kwc

Ed Boyden TED Ed Boyden shows how, by inserting genes for light-sensitive proteins into brain cells, he can selectively activate or de-activate specific neurons with fiber-optic implants. With this unprecedented level of control, he’s managed to cure mice of analogs … Continue reading →

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The Psychedelic Transhumanists

Posted on April 25, 2012 by kwc

Before It’s News Transhumanism in a fortune cookie: the familiar human world is just one point along a continuum of evolution, and we have an unprecedented capacity to participate in that process. And yet, the future being as slippery as … Continue reading →

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British Petroleum engineer arrested over Gulf of Mexico oil spill

Posted on April 25, 2012 by kwc

Press TV A former British Petroleum (BP) engineer is facing criminal charges over the company’s devastating oil spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. US federal prosecutors brought the first criminal charges on Tuesday over the oil spill, accusing … Continue reading →

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BP’s Secret Deepwater Blowout

Posted on April 8, 2012 by kwc

Greg Palast Global Research Only 17 months before BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig suffered a deadly blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP deepwater oil platform also blew out. You’ve heard and seen much about the Gulf disaster that killed … Continue reading →

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Dawn Of The Clone Age (BBC)

Posted on April 6, 2012 by kwc

BBC/EvolutionDocumentary Broadcast (1997) In February 1997, science fiction took a step closer to reality when a team of British scientists achieved what many believed to be impossible: cloning a single adult cell to create a whole new animal Dolly the … Continue reading →

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Playing God — BBC Horizon

Posted on February 3, 2012 by kwc

Source: BBC/Youtube Adam Rutherford meets a new creature created by American scientists – the spider-goat. It is part goat, part spider, and its milk can be used to create artificial spider’s web. It is part of a new field of … Continue reading →

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A new contraceptive for men on the horizon? Just a couple of zaps of ultrasound kills sperm, say scientists

Posted on January 31, 2012 by kwc

Source: Daily Mail It sounds like one of the more extreme examples of birth control – but blasting a man’s most vulnerable area with ultrasound could be the ideal form of male contraception, say scientists. Experiments showed that high frequency … Continue reading →

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Parallel Universes – BBC Horizon

Posted on December 31, 2011 by kwc

Source: BBC Horizon Scientists now believe there may really be a parallel universe – in fact, there may be an infinite number of parallel universes, and we just happen to live in one of them. These other universes contain space, … Continue reading →

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Cloning the first Human – BBC Horizon

Posted on December 22, 2011 by kwc

Doctors Panayiotis Zavos and Severino Antinori claim they are ready to embark on the greatest human experiment of our age. They say they will attempt to clone a human being before the year is out. Most people think the objections … Continue reading →

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IBM Predicts Mind-Reading Machines

Posted on December 22, 2011 by kwc

Source: MyFoxNY ARMONK, N.Y. – Century-old technology colossus IBM on Monday depicted a near future in which machines read minds and recognize who they are dealing with. The ” IBM 5 in 5 ” predictions were based on societal trends … Continue reading →

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