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Humans 2.0: Replacing the Mind and Body

Seeded on Sun Aug 2, 2009 9:34 PM EDT (Live Science)

Recent breakthroughs in bionics and lab-grown body parts — along with news last month that a Swiss research team aims to recreate the intricacies of the human brain within a decade — show science is rapidly creating many of the parts needed to build a fully functional human a …

science, prosthetics, bioengineering, human-evolution

Why is There Peace? - Steven Pinker

Seeded on Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:50 PM EDT ()

Over the past century, violent images from World War II concentration camps, Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, Iraq, and many other times and places have been seared into our collective consciousness.

world-news, violence, war, conflict, death, tribal-warfare, psychology, steven-pinker

Why America is Flunking Science

Seeded on Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:40 PM EDT (Salon.com)

Don't just blame poor education for our nation's scientific illiteracy -- but our politics and pop culture

us-news, hollywood, movies, books, science-fiction, science-literacy

Back to the Future

Seeded on Wed Jul 8, 2009 10:00 PM EDT ()

After eight years of doing research (in the words of the former NIH director), with one hand tied behind their backs, scientists now have ethical guidelines for embryonic stem cell research that will channel federal support to the science that makes the United States a leader in …

politics, stem-cell-research, embryonic-stem-cells, george-w-bush, barack-obama, campaign-promise

How to Make It in the Afterlife

Seeded on Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:52 PM EDT (The New York Times)

I am writing from Athens, doing what might loosely be described as "work," with some rather bad news.

religion, afterlife, philosophy, death

America, Land of the Irrational

Seeded on Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:43 PM EDT ()

Americans pride themselves on being scientifically sophisticated, and on living in the age of science.

us-news, psychiatry, psychology, mental-illness, supernatural

Right-Wing Violence Is Very Real and Very Dangerous

Seeded on Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:54 PM EDT ()

In light of the shootings at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C.

us-news, right-wing, conservatives, republicans, liberals, racism, department-of-homeland-security

Military Burns Unsolicited Bibles Sent To Afghanistan

Seeded on Wed May 20, 2009 12:12 PM EDT (shar.es)

Military personnel threw away, and ultimately burned, confiscated Bibles that were printed in the two most common Afghan languages amid concern they would be used to try to convert Afghans, a Defense Department spokesman said Tuesday, CNN reported.

world-news, bibles, evangelicals, army, afghanistan, christian-prosletysing

10 Things You Need to Know NOW About ... Windows 7

Seeded on Wed May 20, 2009 11:38 AM EDT ()

eWEEK Labs provides (almost) everything you need to know now about Windows 7, Microsoft's update to its client operating system—and what some are seeing as its Vista do-over.

technology, windows-7, vista, microsoft, operating-systems

As Smash-and-Grab Capitalism Collapses, the French Economy Shines

Seeded on Sun May 17, 2009 11:33 AM EDT ()

Many in Britain and the United States are in mourning for what's taken as the suicide of the American (or Thatcherite, or Chicago-school) model of capitalism, accompanied by the non-interventionist state that hands the national economy over to business and financial leaders to …

world-news, adam-smith, capitalism, france, goldman-sachs, laissez-faire, margaret-thatcher, the-economist, timothy-geithner

These God Pundits Can Give You a Splitting Headache

Seeded on Wed May 13, 2009 2:07 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)

I'm always on the lookout for religion's latest counter-arguments, the new rhetorical approaches that God People are constantly fine-tuning for use in pimping the righteousness of faith (and for demonstrating the moral dissoluteness of agnostics like myself).

religion, stanley-fish, terry-eagleton, alternet, atheism, richard-dawkins, christopher-hitchens

Physicists Take First Steps to Harness Antimatter

Seeded on Wed May 13, 2009 12:28 PM EDT (US News & World Report)

"This morning, NASA successfully launched the world's first gamma ray shuttle to the galactic center of the Milky Way. Once there, geo-astronauts say they can mine and harvest enough raw antimatter to power Earth's energy needs for the next decade.

science, space, physics, positrons, energy, milky-way, gamma-rays

Swine Flu Is Evolution in Action

Seeded on Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:56 PM EDT (Live Science)

Anyone who thinks evolution is for the birds should not be afraid of swine flu. Because if there's no such thing as evolution, then there's no such thing as a new strain of swine flu infecting people.

science, evolution, biology, swine-flu, virus

Brain Power - Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory

Seeded on Mon Apr 6, 2009 11:41 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Suppose scientists could erase certain memories by tinkering with a single substance in the brain. Could make you forget a chronic fear, a traumatic loss, even a bad habit.

science, neuroscience, memory, pkmzeta, alzheimers

Are Smart Drugs the Answer to Bad Moods--and a Bad Economy?

Seeded on Sun Apr 5, 2009 9:26 PM EDT (discovermagazine.com)

Today's mind-altering chemicals can improve your memory, alertness, and mood. Just wait until you see what tomorrow's crop can do.

health, cognitive-enhancement, memory, attention, brain, mind, drugs, pharmacology, creativity

Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense Technology from MIT

Seeded on Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:47 PM EDT ()

This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some.

technology, high-tech, portable-technology, mit, fluid-interfaces-group, mit-media-lab

RIP, MBA: The economic crisis has exposed the myth of business-school expertise.

Seeded on Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:20 PM EDT ()

Put your ear to the ground near any business school campus, and you will hear the sound of another bubble about to pop. The MBA will soon be joining equities and house titles in the museum of formerly overvalued pieces of paper.

business, mba, business-education, wall-street, aig, citigroup, banking, finance

Friday is Atheist Pride Day!

Seeded on Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:25 PM EDT ()

… we hold the hope that some of the Facebook users out there with ill-informed impressions of the atheist community will see their friends list colored scarlet for one day, and maybe begin to realize that atheists are more diverse than our stereotype, and that we are often in f …

religion, atheism

Atheism in the USA

Seeded on Sun Mar 15, 2009 12:34 PM EDT ()

A recently released report from the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) continues to be big news across the atheist blogosphere (see .pdf file of the report).

religion, atheism, christianity, evangelicals, born-again, aris, religious-affiliation

Would you give up $10,000 to save $300? - Roanoke.com-More right wing misinformation cleared up

Seeded on Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:22 PM EDT (The Roanoke Times)

Seeded by Joe Radmacher (Clipped by hamid.nyc)

This is an article written by my brother. He is the editorial page editor of The Roanoke Times. This is a very well written article that explains the tax code and the affect it will have on the rich.

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Why Must Media Portray Atheists as Radicals?

Seeded on Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:45 AM EDT ()

Australia's The Age recently printed an excellent op-ed by Catherine Deveny titled "Fear of God, or fear of a difference of opinion?" It deals with the refusal of Australia's APN Outdoor to allow atheist bus ads.

religion, atheism, conservatives, christianity, radicalism, australia, media

Reports of America's decline are greatly exaggerated

Seeded on Wed Mar 11, 2009 1:45 PM EDT (Christian Science Monitor)

Hardly a day goes by that I don't hear someone say so. Even President Obama captured this anxiety in his inaugural speech, pointing to a "nagging fear" that America's "decline is inevitable."

us-news, economy, crisis, obama, united-states, america

The Right's biggest nightmare: What if Obama fixes the economy?(Video)

Seeded on Mon Mar 9, 2009 8:15 PM EDT ()

The wingnuts have been exploring nonstop all kinds of gloom-and-doom scenarios that apparently are certain to envelop the American economy under President Obama's guidance.

politics, right-wing, conservatives, glenn-beck, stephen-colbert, republicans

Bye American

Seeded on Sat Mar 7, 2009 12:27 PM EST ()

Can we stop with the waving of the sharp instruments for a minute and speak rationally to this whole ugly recession mess we find ourselves currently mired in? C'mon. You know what recession mess I'm talking about.

us-news, satire, humor, economic-crisis, economy, consumerism, financial-crisis

Obama To Reverse Limits On Stem Cell Research

Seeded on Fri Mar 6, 2009 7:45 PM EST ()

President Barack Obama is expected to reverse Bush-era restrictions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. Obama is expected to announce the move Monday, freeing up federal funds for research on those stem cell lines created after Aug. 9, 2001.

embryonic-stem-cell-research, science, obama, executive-order

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Humans 2.0: Replacing the Mind and Body
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