From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Wed Dec 04 2002 - 02:14:44 MST
I have recently started a danish transumanist website. For that purpose
I daily read through all the sci-tech news I can find on the web.
I choose the articles based on a "feel" that they have some relation to
transhumanistic goals.
I then pick out som items from the list, which I research further and do
a writeup in Daniish for my own website.
But I got the idea that I could share my collected newslist here, with
only a little extra effort.
Does this format have any interrest here? Or should I drop the idea?
regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark
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New Leases on Life
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http://www.reason.com/rb/rb120402.shtml
"Regenerative medicine is going to transform health care," declared
William Haseltine in his keynote remarks at the third annual conference of
the Society of Regenerative Medicine. "The goal of regenerative medicine
is to repair and restore our bodies to normal youthful function. Our
technologies have their major, but not exclusive, application to aging."
What Causes Prosperity?
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http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-120302A
What are the things that can be done that cause prosperity? Prosperity
depends on growth, so economists want to understand how to improve the
performance of low-growth countries. However, our knowledge is
frustratingly incomplete. Certainly, there is no simple, one-dimensional
answer.
Tech Specs: Less Geek, More Chic
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http://www.wired.com/news/holidays/0,1882,55763,00.html
How's this for a stocking stuffer? A portable DVD player that projects the
movie right before your eyes through a device embedded in your glasses.
Life 'began on the ocean floor'
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2541393.stm
A new and controversial theory on the origin of life on Earth is causing a
stir among scientists. And one of the implications is that life could be
more likely on planets where it was previously thought unlikely to
flourish.
Mars rover inspires toy robot
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2535917.stm
Drawing inspiration from the US space agency's Mars rover, scientists in
the US are working on creating a robot that can teach children about
science.
Molecular memory bank draws closer
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2538119.stm
One day you could be storing data inside molecules. A group of scientists
have found a way to manipulate the atoms in a molecule to store more than
1,000 bits of information.
Cochlear Implants for Young Children Have 95% Success Rate
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http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2002-11-30-1
Cochlear implants for young hearing-impaired children have a 95% success
rate, according to a study by University Clinic of the University of
Navarre.
Decreasing Single Enzyme Could Extend Life as Much as Caloric Restriction
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http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2002-12-01-2
Researchers have discovered that decreasing levels of a single enzyme
extends the life of fruit flies as much as caloric restriction.
Promising Vaccination Approach Using DNA, Oral Delivery Gets Booster
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http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2002-12-03-3
Two major problems with vaccination, the use of live or dead viruses and
the use of injection delivery, could soon be history thanks to new
technology that also offers hope for expanding the number of diseases
against which vaccines are effective.
Exercise improves blood vessel function in patients with coronary artery
disease
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Exercise is inversely related to cardiovascular disease (CVD) in both men
and women, even after controlling for other CVD risk factors (smoking,
overweight, etc). This means that the more you exercise, the less likely
you are to get CVD. Even among patients who already have CVD, exercise
lowers mortality (reduces chance of death).
Extrasolar Planet Twice as Big as Jupiter
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http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20021202/hubble.html
After two years of painstaking research, scientists have determined the
precise size of a planet beyond our solar system by measuring tiny shifts
in the tilt of light coming from its parent star.
Japanese automakers deliver their first hydrogen-powered cars to California
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http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/fuelcellcars021203_wire.html
California, home to the nation's toughest smog-limiting laws, became a
proving ground Monday for the first commercial cars to run on pollution-
free fuel cells.
Space Station's Total Cost Remains an Elusive Number
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http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/iss_cost_011201.html
When President Reagan first proposed it, the International Space Station
was supposed to cost $8 billion. Through the years, that number climbed
like a rocket, even though the station design shrank in size and scope. At
one point, the General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative arm,
estimated the bill for the orbiting research platform and the shuttle
flights to support it was approaching $100 billion.
US Falling Behind in Stem Cell Research
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http://abcnews.go.com/wire/SciTech/reuters20021203_670.html
WASHINGTON (Reuters Health) - With the Bush administration's refusal to
fully fund embryonic stem cell research, the US is falling behind in the
effort to find a cure for a range of diseases, one of the nation's leading
scientists and entrepreneurs said on Tuesday.
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