Listen closely — Marvin Minsky’s arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety: wit, wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is-he-joking? advice.
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Just a bunch of links I’ve had tabbed for a while …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnosine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huperzine_A
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa
http://neurosecurity.com/articles.php
http://www.easycart.net/BeyondACenturyInc./
http://www.carolina.com/category/teacher+resources/classroom+activities/making+microbiology…
No snarky description. Better judgment wins this round. Yes, this is about the “10 Questions every dead horse flogger must ask in the vain hope that THIS time it will become a unicorn” video. Blast. I *almost* managed it.
http://youtube.com/user/TheCarruths
Great (dated) article on Wolfram’s NKoS by teh invincible Ben Goertzel. Check it ouuuuuuuut …
Speaking of Wolfram, was he at Dana Kulic’s seminar @ MIT this past Monday?
Not a fool, for sure. A bit of a child prodigy, Stephan Wolfram graduated Cal Tech in his teenage years, and began his career as a […]
I find all of these ideas novel but not necessarily “pushing the edge.” I have a pretty good sense of this “edge” and I don’t sense it moving THAT much right now … which is bizarre considering the fact that the planet is rotating 1000 mph.
Medical bots powered by sperm, clean fusion power, and […]
Changizi claims the visual system has evolved to compensate for neural delays, allowing it to generate perceptions of what will occur one-tenth of a second into the future, so that when an observer actually perceives something, it is the present rather than what happened one-tenth of a second ago. Using his hypothesis, called “perceiving-the-present,” he […]
The violent quake that shook China’s Sichuan province on Monday is linked to a shift of the Tibetan plateau to the north and east, specialists at the Paris Institute of Earth Physics told AF
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Tibetan_tectonics_trigger_China_quake_geologists_999.html
