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Feb 1, 2016

Sin GIF — Find & Share on GIPHY

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Discover & Share this Sin GIF with everyone you know. GIPHY is how you search, share, discover, and create GIFs.

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Feb 1, 2016

Collision-proof drone

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This collision-proof drone can go to the world’s most dangerous places.

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Jan 31, 2016

The DeLorean Motor Company may soon start building ‘new’ cars

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The DeLorean could soon be going back into production thanks to a new law that exempts small volume car manufacturers from the safety requirements applied to most new car makers. Also, I’m going to attempt to write this article without any Back to the Future jokes.

The law only applies to “replica” vehicles, that is, cars that resemble the body of another vehicle produced at least 25 years ago. Think stuff like the Shelby Cobra or the ‘65 Mustang — or the venerable DeLorean.

The DeLorean Motor Company, which acquired what was left of the original manufacturer 30 years ago, currently focuses on repairing and restoring all the DeLorean vehicles that are floating around the world. But now, with this specialty legislation, the company can use its millions of factory parts (and some that have been recreated from the original blueprints) to build new, 2017 model year DeLoreans complete with a crate engine from an outside supplier.

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Jan 31, 2016

Virtual Fashion Mirror

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Women love technology… smile
‪#‎Amazing‬ ‪#‎mirror‬ ‪#‎technology‬

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Jan 31, 2016

Space Quotes to Ponder

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“The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don’t have a space program, it’ll serve us right!”

Larry Niven, quoted by Arthur Clarke in interview at space.com, 2001.


Quotations collected by Sylvia Engdahl about why expansion into space is vital to the future survival of humankind, many of them from well-known people.

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Jan 30, 2016

Scientists call for ban on autonomous killer robots

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Good luck with that.


GRAUBUNDEN, SWITZERLAND – The world must act quickly to avert a future in which autonomous robots with artificial intelligence roam the battlefields killing humans, scientists and arms experts warned at an elite gathering in the Swiss Alps.

Rules must be agreed to prevent the development of such weapons, they said at a January 19–23 meeting of billionaires, scientists and political leaders in the snow-covered ski resort of Davos.

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Jan 29, 2016

The 21st Century Philosophers — By Melanie Ruiz | OZY

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““If you think it’s too early to think about something, it’s probably slightly too late.””

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Jan 28, 2016

Post-transcriptional control of gene expression: mRNA decay

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Could we actually start seeing some standards around CRISPR being proposed & implemented around CRISPR?


Bethesda, MD –This SRC will present the very latest developments in this field, with talks by leading international experts working with both prokaryotic and eukaryotic models. This unique blend from the two communities is always much appreciated by attendees of this meeting and one of its main highlights. The topics covered will include events occurring at both the 5’ and 3’ ends of mRNA related to decay, the links between translation, quality control and mRNA stability, and the relationship between RNA degradation and disease. Two full sessions will be devoted to mechanisms of sRNA, CRISPR RNA and miRNA regulation and how they pertain to mRNA stability. The meeting is traditionally of a very manageable size (typically about 120 attendees), providing unrestricted access to students and post-docs for dynamic discussions with more established scientists and potential future employers. Informal Meet the Expert sessions will be held over lunch, with assigned tables to selected speakers.

There will be a total of 9 very broad-ranging sessions over the 4 days, with 36 invited speakers at the top of their fields and two internationally renowned keynote speakers, Chris Lima and Jörg Vogel. Speakers are encouraged to present their most recent and unpublished data. There will be two poster sessions and 2–3 additional speakers per session will be chosen to give oral presentations, based on the submitted abstracts. This promises to be a very interesting and lively meeting in one of Europe’s most beautiful cities. We hope to see you there!

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Jan 28, 2016

Interesting Futurism Animation 17

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Jan 26, 2016

In memory of Marvin Minsky

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Nice tribute.


Marvin Minsky at One Laptop per Child office, Cambridge Mass. 2008 (credit: Bcjordan/Wikimedia Commons)

Ray Kurzweil, January 25, 2016

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