Tag Archives: science
Paralyzed limbs revived by ‘hacking’ into nerves
link When you get a spinal cord injury, basically your brain is still sending out the signals to your legs to move, and your legs still have the muscles to move (at least initially, until they deteriorate from non-use), the …
Making the blind see: Gene therapy restores vision in mice
link – For all the horror stories you hear about what genetic engineering could do to our species, there’s still awesome shit like this. Gene therapy curing blindness. This is amazing, this should be celebrated, and it should be tested …
the infinit yes brings you… the cure for cancer (applause)
When I was drinking tea and smoking a joint* this afternoon I found the cure for cancer. It’s right here: http://gizmodo.com/5501103/this-is-the-future-of-the-fight-against-cancer Since I was the one who found this website that contains the cure for cancer, I expect donations**. Thank …
ZDAY 2010
Today is Zeitgeist Day 2010, worldwide day for Zeitgeist Movement awareness. Watch the main event LIVE HERE: Streaming .TV shows by Ustream or find your local event and attend in PERSON. http://zday2010.org
our problems
The way I see it, our modern problems can be traced back to about 10,000 years ago, the Agricultural Revolution. This is, basically, when human’s gained the power to fuck with the natural balance. When we were still hunter/gatherers, there …
open-mindedness (merry christmas fuckers)
I made a post a while ago where I spoke about feeling that despite the fact that I am an athiest (rather than agnostic) I still consider myself to be very open-minded (see here), perhaps moreso than people who are …
More evidence starting to pile up in favour of the idea that humans are not by nature greedy and selfish
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091208155309.htm “Survival of the kindest” as it has been dubbed by researchers referring to the evidence that human empathy and compassion have been naturally selected for in nature since these traits are the most beneficial to the survival of each …
life extension
this isn’t what i sat down to write about but i want to get quickly back into life extension, which i touched on last time. common wisdom is that death is inevitable. but we only think that because we’ve never …
exponential growth
Basically we can turn ourselves into technobiological superhumans.
creator
Another quick one. The pipe that connects the testes to the penis, rather than taking a direct route, goes way up into our bodies and wraps around the ureter…
