Lifeboat Foundation

Written By: Jason Dorrier — Singularity Hub

In his latest video, host of National Geographic’s Brain Games and techno-poet, Jason Silva, explores the universe’s tendency to self-organize. Biology, he says, seems to have agency and directionality toward greater complexity, and humans are the peak.

“It’s like human beings seem to be the cutting edge,” Silva says. “The evolutionary pinnacle of self-awareness becoming aware of its becoming.”

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Future Phone Displays Could Take Your Temperature, Analyze DNA http://mashable.com/2014/07/18/future-smartphone-displays-co…-tech-link

Intranasal nerve growth factor repairs injured spinal cord neurons http://phys.org/wire-news/167134926/intranasal-nerve-growth-…neuro.html

Kingston, Jamaica hybrid project to harness sun and wind http://phys.org/news/2014-07-kingston-jamaica-hybrid-harness-sun.html

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BySarah Fecht- Popular Science

Eight years ago, doctors took nasal tissue samples and grafted them onto the spines of 20 quadriplegics. The idea was that stem cells within the nasal tissue might turn into neurons that could help repair the damaged spinal cord, and the experiment actually worked a few of the patients, who regained a little bit of sensation. But it didn’t go well for one woman in particular, who not only didn’t experience any abatement in her paralysis, but recently started feeling pain at the site of the implant. When doctors took a closer look, they realized she was growing the beginnings of a nose on her spine, New Scientist reports.

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By Cade Metz — Wired

Chris Lattner spent a year and a half creating a new programming language—a new way of designing, building, and running computer software—and he didn’t mention it to anyone, not even his closest friends and colleagues.

He started in the summer of 2010, working at night and on weekends, and by the end of the following year, he’d mapped out the basics of the new language. That’s when he revealed his secret to the top executives at his company, and they were impressed enough to put a few other seasoned engineers on the project. Then, after another eighteen months, it became a “major focus” for the company, with a huge team of developers working alongside Lattner, and that meant the new language would soon change the world of computing. Lattner, you see, works for Apple.

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Written By: Arlington Hewes — Singularity Hub

UK nanotechnology company, Surrey NanoSystems, has created what they say is the darkest material known to man. Vantablack consists of a dense forest of carbon nanotubes—single atom carbon tubes 10,000 times thinner than a human hair—that drinks in 99.96% of all incoming radiation.

First announced last year, the material is a deep, featureless black even when folded and scrunched. “You expect to see the hills and all you can see…it’s like black, like a hole, like there’s nothing there. It just looks so strange,” Ben Jensen, the firm’s chief technical officer, told the Independent.

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BOSTON GLOBE: Harvard scientists want gene-manipulation debate Harvard scientists want gene-manipulation debate http://bit.ly/1wDKozE

BOSTON GLOBE: Downed Malaysia plane a ‘wake-up call,’ Obama says http://bit.ly/1u0H0Tu

BOSTON GLOBE: After hybrid success, Toyota gambles on fuel cell http://bit.ly/1qljnUd

BOSTON GLOBE: Japan to export missile parts to US http://bit.ly/1oSpt7J

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I will be conducting the 1-day Gravity Modification Workshop on Friday, August 8, 2014, here in Denver, Colorado. The Workshop brochure is here http://www.iseti.us/pdf/(00)GMWorkshop(2014-07-15).pdf.

One can expect to take away,

1. A good understanding of :
   1. The physics and some of the engineering for gravity modification.
   2. Some of the fallacies in contemporary physics that has hampered the discovery of gravity modification physics to date.
2. A DVD containing:
   1. The PowerPoint presentation of this Workshop
   2. The Excel worksheets that were developed to discover this new physics

To cover costs, the minimum class size is 5, and registered participants will be notified as soon as we reach this minimum.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Sincerely
Benjamin T Solomon

By James Temple — re/code

http://youtu.be/3N1Q8oFpX1Y

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BLOOMBERG NEWS

Automakers intending to bring driverless cars to market need to work as much on software design as mechanical engineering, the researcher leading Nissan Motor Co.’s automated-vehicle program said.

Making cars that are “deliberative” in assessing road conditions, rather than just reactive, requires artificial intelligence, Maarten Sierhuis, director of Nissan’s Silicon Valley research center in Sunnyvale, California, said in an interview. The carmaker, which aims to sell vehicles that can drive themselves by 2020 or sooner, is developing software to read and filter sensor data much as a human brain does, he said.

“What the auto industry has to come to is a shift from thinking about the car as a physical, mechanical system,” Sierhuis said in an interview Tuesday during the Automated Vehicles Symposium in San Francisco. “Autonomy, autonomous systems, is about understanding how humans do that, and then replicating it with software.”

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