Scientists at Queen’s University Belfast have made a major breakthrough by making a porous liquid — with the potential for a massive range of new technologies including ‘carbon capture’.
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Nov 11, 2015
Elon Musk and Sam Altman on Thinking for the Future
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: futurism
Nov 11, 2015
Mysterious grooves on this tiny moon point to almost certain death
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space
We’ve said it before: Mars’ moon Phobos is doomed. But a new study indicates it might be worse than we thought.
One of the most striking features we see on images of Phobos is the parallel sets of grooves on the moon’s surface.
They were originally thought to be fractures caused by an impact long ago. But scientists now say the grooves are early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon.
Nov 11, 2015
David Eagleman: Can a Computer Simulate Consciousness?
Posted by Gerard Bain in categories: computing, information science, neuroscience, space travel
Yes, conceivably. And if/when we achieve the levels of technology necessary for simulation, the universe will become our playground. Eagleman’s latest book is “The Brain: The Story of You” (http://goo.gl/2IgDRb).
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Nov 11, 2015
Billions in Change Official Film
Posted by Julius Garcia in categories: education, food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY7f1t9y9a0
The world is facing some huge problems. There’s a lot of talk about how to solve them. But talk doesn’t reduce pollution, or grow food, or heal the sick. That takes doing. This film is the story about a group of doers, the elegantly simple inventions they have made to change the lives of billions of people, and the unconventional billionaire spearheading the project.
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Nov 11, 2015
Our Milky Way Galaxy Has a Mysterious ‘Great Dark Lane’
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space
Called the “Great Dark Lane” by the astronomers who announced it, the dusty road twists in front of the bulge of the galaxy. “For the first time, we could map this dust lane at large scales, because our new infrared maps cover the whole central region of the Milky Way,” Dante Minniti, a researcher at Universidad Andres Bello in Chile and lead author of a study describing the findings, told Space.com by email. “It is very difficult to mapthe structure of our galaxy because we are inside, and it is very large and covered with dust clouds that are opaque in the optical,” Minniti said.
Nov 11, 2015
Newly Discovered Object Revives Speculation of Planet X
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space
We’re NEVER gonna hear the end of it now! wink
The likely-dwarf planet adds to the mounting evidence of a dark super Earth at the outer boundary of our solar system.
The future of sex is like the future of art: more immersion, more intensity, deeper subjectivity. Orgasms and mindgasms for all!
Join Jason Silva as he freestyles complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth and beauty of science in a form of existential jazz.
The author of a new book argues that science and science fiction have made civilization more moral.
