First Potential Anti-Aging Drug Clears Mouse Trials
5 Nov, 2008
>Back in 1990 or so, Tom Johnson demonstrated that it is possible to slow the aging process in a multi-cellular organism. Since then, our knowledge of the biology of aging and the interconnections of caloric restriction, the effects of red wine, mitochondrial function, and the…
R e a d M o r eSolar Prices Drop Exponentially for 30 Years
3 Jan, 2008
>FuturePundit blogs about projections for $2 a watt photovoltaics by 2010, which would be a reduction in cost of about half from today’s prices. The interesting thing in this post for me is a link to an Earth Policy Institute page which shows an exponential…
R e a d M o r eA Solar Grand Plan
3 Jan, 2008
>The cover story of this month’s Scientific American is a proposal to build out solar power in the US to supply 70% of the country’s electrical needs by 2050. It looks like a pretty doable plan, actually, requiring no technological advances in solar power beyond…
R e a d M o r eMeditate – Why and How
26 Jun, 2007
>At Foo Camp, I did a 5 minute “learn to meditate” session for about 50 people. It was fun despite being a really noisy environment (due to a session next door, mostly). A lot of people came up later and gave me positive feedback. I…
R e a d M o r eFOO Camp Talks
25 Jun, 2007
>This past weekend I was at FOO Camp which was fabulous. My head is still spinning from all the great information, ideas, and people. My talks from this year and last year are online: 2007: When Everything Becomes Information: The Convergence of Matter, Life, and…
R e a d M o r eGreat Boing Boing Review of Citizen Cyborg
12 Apr, 2005
>James Hughes’s Citizen Cyborg gets a fantastic review over at Boing Boing. I couldn’t agree more!
R e a d M o r eBlogging vs. Book Writing
25 Mar, 2005
>One of the most common questions I get is “how did you write this book?”. (The most common is actually “how did you get it published?”, but more on that later.) Steven Johnson has a thoughtful post on the writing side, or specifically, how writing…
R e a d M o r eGizmodo and NPR
22 Mar, 2005
>I was interviewed this morning on San Diego’s NPR station KPBS. The host, Tom Fudge, had clearly read the book and had great questions. So did the callers. You can listen to the interview online. And as a nice bonus, I got a brief review…
R e a d M o r eScientific American Editors Recommend More Than Human, Citizen Cyborg
20 Mar, 2005
>In the April issue of Scientific American, the Editors Recommend section features both More Than Human and James Hughes’s excellent Cyborg Democracy.
R e a d M o r eInfertile Women Would Use Sex Selection
15 Mar, 2005
>Betterhumans quotes a recent survey which shows that 41% of women undergoing infertility treatments would select the sex of their child if possible. Interestingly enough: Contradicting fears that such sex selection would cause gender imbalance, thesurvey found that women with no children would choose baby…
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