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Feb 24, 2019

James Hughes’ Problems of Transhumanism: A Review (Part 3) – Article

Posted by in category: transhumanism

This is Part 3 of a 5-part series by Chogwu Abdul, founder of the Transhumanist Enlightenment Café (TEC), where he explores the thought-provoking intricacies of James Hughes’ “Problems of Transhumanism.”

In this Part, he explores “Liberal Democracy Versus Technocratic Absolutism.”

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Feb 24, 2019

My robotic team at CRC competition( −600 $ of budget)

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

128 votes and so far on Reddit.

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Feb 24, 2019

Thirty-million-page backup of humanity headed to moon aboard Israeli lander

Posted by in category: space

If the apocalypse hits, the Arch Mission Foundation wants to be sure the knowledge we’ve accrued sticks around.

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Feb 24, 2019

NASA greenlights SpaceX crew capsule test to ISS

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

NASA on Friday gave SpaceX the green light to test a new crew capsule by first sending an unmanned craft with a life-sized mannequin to the International Space Station.

“We’re go for launch, we’re go for docking,” said William Gerstenmaier, the associate administrator with NASA Human Exploration and Operations.

A Falcon 9 rocket from the private US-based SpaceX is scheduled to lift off, weather permitting, on March 2 to take the Crew Dragon test capsule to the ISS.

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Feb 24, 2019

A quantum magnet with a topological twist

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

Taking their name from an intricate Japanese basket pattern, kagome magnets are thought to have electronic properties that could be valuable for future quantum devices and applications. Theories predict that some electrons in these materials have exotic, so-called topological behaviors and others behave somewhat like graphene, another material prized for its potential for new types of electronics.

Now, an international team led by researchers at Princeton University has observed that some of the in these magnets behave collectively, like an almost infinitely massive electron that is strangely magnetic, rather than like individual particles. The study was published in the journal Nature Physics this week.

The team also showed that placing the kagome magnet in a causes the direction of magnetism to reverse. This “negative magnetism” is akin to having a compass that points south instead of north, or a refrigerator magnet that suddenly refuses to stick.

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Feb 24, 2019

Huawei’s Mate X foldable phone is a thinner 5G rival to the Galaxy Fold

Posted by in categories: internet, mobile phones, space

A foldable that folds without a gap.

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Feb 24, 2019

Anti-vaxx propaganda has gone viral on Facebook. Pinterest has a cure

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, education

Since my previous post about Youtube and anti-vaccination was such a hit, here’s now Pinterest handles it. They broke their own search engine to keep these things from getting passed around. They also blocked the ability to pin links or images from any number of pseudoscience websites such as Mercola, Natural News, GreedMedInfo, and HealthNutNews.

They also did this to their hash-tag library to keep people from finding workarounds.


O n Wednesday morning, Adam Schiff, the powerful chair of the House intelligence committee, joined journalists around the world in a nascent Twitter meme: he searched “vaccine” on Facebook and posted a screenshot of the results.

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Feb 24, 2019

Click and share your thoughts!

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

How will AI finish the unfinished work of Schubert’s famous Symphony No. 8?

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Feb 24, 2019

Maryland Transhumanist Party

Posted by in categories: geopolitics, transhumanism

“A staging ground for planning the Maryland Transhumanist Party.

.” ~ Dan Elton


Email Forms.

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Feb 24, 2019

Doubling Our DNA Building Blocks Could Lead to New Life Forms

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

That’s why Ellington sees a more immediate use for the technology in the up-and-coming field of DNA data storage. Large tech firms and startups alike are evaluating whether nucleotides can beat out silicon when it comes to long-term, archival information storage. DNA is notoriously data-dense, and the arrival of hachimoji just doubled its information-carrying capacity.


But first, chemists hope to improve DNA data storage and churn out new medical compounds.

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