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Category Archives: Science and technology ramifications
Soon, decayed tooth may repair itself – The Times of India
British scientists have discovered a technique which can make a decayed tooth repair itself. The technique, developed at King’s College, London, effectively reverses decay by using electrical currents to boost the tooth’s natural repair process. Soon, decayed tooth may repair … Continue reading
Swarm and Fuzzy | Newsweek
When the first human colonists land on Mars several decades from now, their habitat will already be waiting. They may not even have to don a space suit, instead simply walking down the gangplank in their civvies into a warm, … Continue reading
Transistors that wrap around tissues and morph with them | KurzweilAI
Electronic devices that become soft when implanted inside the body and can deploy to grip 3-D objects, such as large tissues, nerves and blood vessels have been created by researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas and the University … Continue reading
Butterfly Wings Inspire Better Sensors
Imitating nature is not a new idea. When the GE team put Morpho wings under a powerful microscope, they saw a layer of tiny scales just tens of micrometers across. In turn, each of the scales had arrays of ridges … Continue reading
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Artificial intelligence ‘will take the place of humans within five years’ – Telegraph
Mr Aksenov, now 21 years old, founded technology company London Brand Management in 2011. The company provides an AI service for big brands who want to outsource customer or staff interactions to computers. Customers send questions in to LBM’s system … Continue reading
Multiverse Controversy Heats Up – Scientific American
The multiverse is one of the most divisive topics in physics, and it just became more so. The major announcement last week of evidence for primordial ripples in spacetime has bolstered a cosmological theory called inflation, and with it, some … Continue reading
The Dream of Intelligent Robot Friends – Carla Diana – The Atlantic
Karotz is an Internet-enabled console in the shape of an abstracted rabbit. One sits on my coffee table, continuously connected to WiFi, programmed to broadcast certain bits of live information such as Twitter messages, news headlines or weather reports by … Continue reading
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Tagged Karotz, robot, robotics, technophilia
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A World without Scarcity?
An intellectual property lawyer considers the philosophical and legal consequences of a world where anything can be printed and copied. …new technologies promise to do for a variety of physical goods and even services what the Internet has already done … Continue reading
What Would Plato Tweet? – NYTimes.com
…For the past few years I’d been obsessed with trying to figure out what lay behind the spectacular achievements that had occurred there. In a mere couple of centuries, Greek speakers went from anomie and illiteracy, lacking even an alphabet, … Continue reading
The Future of Brain Implants – WSJ.com
What would you give for a retinal chip that let you see in the dark or for a next-generation cochlear implant that let you hear any conversation in a noisy restaurant, no matter how loud? Or for a memory chip, … Continue reading
The Germ Theory of Democracy, Dictatorship, and Your Cherished Beliefs – Pacific Standard: The Science of Society
Anyone with a basic grasp of biology knows that all animals have immune systems that battle pathogens—be they viruses, bacteria, parasites, or fungi—on the cellular level. And it’s also fairly well understood that animals sometimes exhibit outward behaviors that serve … Continue reading
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Tagged democracy, germ theory, Randy Thornhill
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The Youngest Technorati – NYTimes.com
Ryan [Orbuch]… is among the many entrepreneurially minded, technologically skilled teenagers who are striving to do serious business. Their work is enabled by low-cost or free tools to make apps or to design games, and they are encouraged by tech … Continue reading
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How Academia and Publishing are Destroying Scientific Innovation: A Conversation with Sydney Brenner | King’s Review – Magazine
An interview with molecular biologist Sydney Brenner… In most places in the world, you live your social life and your ordinary life in the lab. You don’t know anybody else. Sometimes you don’t even know other people in the same … Continue reading
Posted in Broader Impacts, Future of the University, Graduate Studies, Interdisciplinarity, Peer Review, Public Philosophizing, Science and technology ramifications, STEM Policy, Transdisciplinarity
Tagged Cambridge University, Kings College, molecular biology, Sydney Brenner, UK Research Council, UK research policy
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1 In 4 Americans Thinks The Sun Goes Around The Earth, Survey Says : The Two-Way : NPR
A quarter of Americans surveyed could not correctly answer that the Earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around, according to a report out Friday from the National Science Foundation. The survey of 2,200 people in the … Continue reading
Tiny technology creates a buzz | News @ CSIRO
What if I told you that insects in the environment may be able to tell us about the world they live in? Imagine it; they could reveal changes in climate, the presence of dangerous gases or even the arrival of … Continue reading
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Tagged bees, insects, research
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Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram : Nature News & Comment
In 1997, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena proposed1 that an audacious model of the Universe in which gravity arises from infinitesimally thin, vibrating strings could be reinterpreted in terms of well-established physics. The mathematically intricate world of strings, which exist in … Continue reading
▶ Is Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube
▶ Is Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube.
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It’s a 50-year-old physics textbook that runs to 1,500 pages and whose contents were declared a failure by its famous author. It is also, according to various online reviews “spellbinding” and “an extraordinary book written by an extraordinary man”. One … Continue reading
Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt
In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held annually in San Francisco. This year’s conference … Continue reading
Posted in Basic News, Climate Change, Economics & STEM Research, Environmental policy, Globalization, Occupy Wall Street, Philosophy & Politics, Public Philosophizing, Science and technology ramifications, Sustainability, Risk Management, & Long-Term Security
Tagged Brad Werner, global science research, global warming, Naomi Klein
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Udacity, Coursera: Should celebrities teach MOOCs?
Free online courses do big numbers these days. So-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, typically get tens of thousands of sign-ups to watch video lectures delivered by tweedy academics, some more photogenic than others. But imagine how many students … Continue reading
Science’s rightful place is in service of society | Dan Sarewitz
Science policy must concentrate less on how much money is spent, and more on how to translate investments into public good via Science’s rightful place is in service of society : Nature News & Comment.
A Wizard of Oz Moment for the Web: Pull back the Curtains
Lightbeam, a download produced by Mozilla, the US free software community behind the popular Firefox browser, claims to be a “watershed” moment in the battle for web transparency. Everyone who browses the Internet leaves a digital trail used by advertisers … Continue reading
How Higgs owes his Nobel to an editor and a biologist | Science News
In his talk, describing the events that led to the prediction of his boson, he provided an enlightening case study about how science really works. As with so many good ideas in science, Higgs had trouble getting his paper published. … Continue reading
Metrics 2.0: who will be the ‘Google of altmetrics’?
An interesting summary of presentations on altmetrics, including a set of interesting questions: BMJ Group blogs: BMJ Web Development Blog » Blog Archive » Metrics 2.0: who will be the ‘Google of altmetrics’?.