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[ Linda MacDonald Glenn is guest blogging this month ] Can nanotechnology be sustainable? At the site, Forumforthefuture.org, under the section Green Futures, Peter Madden argues that nanotechnology can contribute to sustainability . But the article doesn't set well with me -- why? Not because ...
Physical Science
In the 1/1/24 edition of the Silicon Valley newspaper and online journal Metroactive, I have an editorial describing how the American consumer came to propel the export-driven development of Japan, Korea, Malaysia, China and now India. That process, spanning more than six decades, is ...
Physical Science
[ Linda MacDonald Glenn is guest blogging this month ] (cross-posted on the Women's Bioethics Blog ) (Roughly translated from Latin as Sex God in the machine) We all know that technology can improve our lives (sometimes....well, at least when it's working properly), but who'd have thunk that ...
Physical Science
I totally love geek humor -- and this TED Talk by John Hodgman has plenty of it, including a bit about the Fermi Paradox and the ultimate question, "Where is everybody?"
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This is not a brain. I'm a big fan of IBM's Brain and Mind Institute (BMI) and the Blue Brain project. Initiated in May 2005, the Blue Brain project is an attempt to to model the mammalian cerebral cortex with computers. The intention is not to re-create the actual physical structure of the ...
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[ Linda MacDonald Glenn is guest blogging this month ] Growing a set of new teeth, or new kidneys, or new eyes, or whatever it is you need, is something we could do as soon as 2020, according to a report that w as issued by the Department of Health and Human Services a few years ago. In a ...
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From the four corners of the web: Ranking scientists | Physics An analysis of the citation network leads to an alternative way to quantitatively assess the impact of a scientist's work. Your Next Body Is Growing In a Lab Right Now | Gizmodo At TEDMED, I witnessed video clips showing science ...
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I'm pleased to announce that bioethicist Linda MacDonald Glenn will be guest blogging at Sentient Developments over the next four weeks. Linda, who studied biomedical ethics at McGill University in Montreal, is a healthcare ethics educator, attorney-at-law and a consultant. She is an Assistant ...
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So the Large Hadron Collider has been shut down yet again – this time on account of a bird dropping a piece of a bagel onto some sensitive outdoor machinery . The incident is not expected to keep the LHC out of commission for too much longer, but it represents yet another strange event that ...
Physical Science
Large Hadron Collider
The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies is holding a seminar on the Biopolitics of Popular Culture at Eon Reality in Irvine California on December 4, 2009. This seminar will precede the Humanity+ Summit , December 5-6 at the same venue. The IEET has put together an impressive ...
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From the four corners of the web: J.D. Trout - The Science of the Good Society | Point of Inquiry J.D. Trout is a professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, and an adjunct professor at the Parmly Sensory Sciences Institute. He writes on the nature of scientific and intellectual ...
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From the four corners of the web: Toward a meaningful definition of posthuman sentience | Machines Like Us As we get closer and closer to developing artificial general intelligence, I feel it is necessary to highlight an important limitation of our anthropocentric perspective. While we ...
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From the four corners of the web: The Next Hacking Frontier: Your Brain? | Wired Science Hackers who commandeer your computer are bad enough. Now scientists worry that someday, they'll try to take over your brain. What's your place in the brave new future? - Times Online Thanks to the ...
Physical Science
This video depicting NASA's Shuttle-derived Sidemount Heavy Launch Vehicle concept was shown at the 17 June 2009 meeting of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee in Washington DC by NASA Space Shuttle Program.
Physical Science
NASA
Osseointegrated prosthetics, artificial limbs that fuse to the bone , have been touted as the future of prosthetics -- and rightly so. There are a number of possible benefits, both for humans and animals, including prosthetic limbs that attach without chafing or irritation and limbs with more ...
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Doctors have been using synthetic skin for grafts and repairs for years now, but the process to create synthetic skin is expensive and time-consuming. Now, a team from Germany's Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft science institute have created a way to mass-produce artificial skin (complete with blood ...
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Several years ago, Motala, a 48-year old former working elephant from Thailand (she moved trees for a living), wandered into the forest to look for food and accidently stepped on a land mine left over from the Burmese-Thai War. The blast destroyed her left front leg and had to be amputated ...
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This image was shot for National Geographic by Monica Szczupider and shows chimpanzees at the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center in Cameroon. The chimps are observing the body of an elder troop member named Dorothy just prior to burial. She died at 40 years of age, which is quite old for ...
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Earth
Casey Rae-Hunter is a guest blogger for Sentient Developments. Today's e-edition of the always thought-provoking Foreign Policy magazine had the usual roundup of articles on America's dicey diplomacy with Iran and the Afghanistan Question, which at this point can be summarized by the famous ...
