Roadmaps to Nanotech and AGI

J Storrs Hall discusses roadmaps to nanotech and AGI. Conical example of worldchanging tech that was poo-pood prior to success is airplanes. But is necessary to understand why airplanes succeeded in detail. We observer heavier than air birds Study them and understand Similarly for nanotech we have the molecular mechanisms in the cell that make …

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Flowing Galactic Clusters and Massive Voids Could be Parallel Universes

New Scientist reports that there is something big out there beyond the visible edge of our universe. That’s the conclusion of the largest analysis to date of over 1000 galaxy clusters streaming in one direction at blistering speeds. Last year, Sasha Kashlinsky of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and colleagues identified an …

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Quantum AI and How Much Like Magic Can Advanced Technology Become

Michael Neilsen’s “Mathematics of Quantum Computing In Ten Minutes” presented on Quantum Computing at the 2009 Singularity Summit. He thinks an AI would probably have to build a quantum AI. He explained how a quantum AI would have completely different reasoning, and that having quantum AIs could bring about a “Quantum Singularity” — the likes …

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Superhard materials

New Scientist magazine has a review of materials that are nearly as hard as or harder than diamond. Wurtzite or w-BN, which is comparable to a diamond-like form of carbon known as lonsdaleite. It had been made since the 1970s by using high pressure or explosive shock waves to squeeze h-BN, but had only been …

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Novartis, Novavax and China’s Sinovec Biotech Begin Human Field Testing Swine Flu Vaccines

Swiss drugmaker Novartis has begun injecting its swine flu vaccine into people in the company’s first human tests, a spokesman said Wednesday. At the moment swine flu is rated only a “moderate” pandemic by WHO standards but it could worsen as temperatures cool, making conditions better for the virus. Swine flu deaths are at 1154 …

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Cancer Breakthroughs : Unraveling Genetic Sequences for Cancer Cures, Ultrasound/Magnets for Zapping Tumors, 2-in-1 Breast Cancer Treatment and More

1. Colorectal cancer is especially difficult to diagnose in its early stages – usually, people are in advanced stages when the cancer is discovered, and the diagnostic process itself requires the removal of entire polyps as well as a laboratory assessment that may take weeks. Vernick’s [ doctoral student of the Department of Physical Electronics …

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American Chemical Society Conference Videos on the Low Energy Nuclear Reaction/Cold Fusion Work

About a 45 minute interview of the cold fusion researchers. Free Webcam Chat at Ustream Organizer, Jan Marwan, first 5 minutesSteven Krivit, New Energy Times, 6-10 minutes. Overview of the last 20 yearsAntonella De Ninno, 10-13 minutesPamela Boss, 13-17 minutes, Navy researcher who detected neutrons John Dash, 17-22 minutesMahadeva Srinivasan, 22-28Q & A 29-45 minutesTriple …

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Lab-Grown Nerves Promote Nerve Regeneration After Injury, Penn Study Finds

A surviving cluster of transplanted neurons at the graft extremity (top) with axons in the center (bottom). In both images, transplanted nerve cells are labeled green and axons are stained red. These axons are a mix of the transplanted axons and host axons, which intertwined as regeneration occurred directly across the transplanted tissue. – Researchers …

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Half the World is Middle Class and 4 Billion Have Mobile Connections

Middle-class people do not live from hand to mouth, job to job, season to season, as the poor do. A local middle-class person in a developing country begins where people have a third of their income left for discretionary spending after providing for basic food and shelter. This allows them not just to buy things …

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4DS RRAM – Universal Memory Breakthrough, Production in 18-24 months

Startup 4DS Inc. has emerged from stealth mode and claims to have made a major breakthrough in resistive random access memory (RRAM) technology. FRAM, MRAM, phase-change, RRAM and other technologies are vying for dominance in the ”universal memory” race. 4DS’s website and technology details are at this link. The companies chart and the announcement are …

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