From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Fri Dec 06 2002 - 05:14:04 MST
Remember When...?
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http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DyeHard/dyehard.html
Study Shows How Young and Old Recall Events Differently
Think back to your first kiss and try to remember exactly what happened.
If you remember precisely what your sweetheart was wearing, where you were
when you puckered up for the first time, whether your friend swooned or
giggled, and other specific details associated with the event, chances are
you're still pretty young.
Especially interresting when compared to:
Wisdom in Transhumanism
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Individual/Intelligence/wisdom.html
The News Can Kill You
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http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14692
(Hillarious!)
Is America the most dangerous place in the history of the world? It must
be, if you believe the increasingly hysterical reports issued by our
paranoid scientists, government officials, and big haired talking heads in
the news media. On a typical day last month (Ozone Warning Level: Orange,
Homeland Security Alert Code: Yellow) I tabulated news reports and updates
about 137 things that can kill you, and that was all before eating red
meat for dinner.
Martian water gone in a flash
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2546923.stm
Asteroid impacts during Mars' early years may have led to brief warm and
wet periods when torrential rain carved out the planet's ancient network
of valleys.
Animal Trials Begin for Nanotech Kidney Disease Treatment
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http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2002-012-05-1
Tiny ceramic nano-particles that lower dangerous levels of phosphate in
patients with End Stage Renal Disease are moving into animal studies.
Cloned cells may boost immunity
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http://www.msnbc.com/news/843712.asp
Cloning technology may someday be able to give patients “re-booted” immune
systems, offering new treatments for diseases ranging from pneumonia to
multiple sclerosis, U.S. researchers said Thursday. Stem cells made from
cattle out-competed the animals’ older, native cells, researchers at a
Massachusetts biotechnology company told a conference.
Structure Of A Biological Clock Protein Determined For First Time
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/12/021205084633.htm
Biologists know that biological clocks play a critical role in most living
organisms including humans, but, despite an abundance of theories, they
don't really know why. Now, a research team from Vanderbilt, the
University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard Medical School has taken a
significant step toward answering this question. In an article published
the week of Dec. 2 in the online edition of the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, they report having successfully determined
the structure of a biological clock protein for the first time.
Demolition Men
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http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-120602B
Americans defend their liberty precisely because we do not want
governments and elitists imposing their personal priorities upon us. In
the same film, the leader of the anti-government resistance explained the
importance of liberty, "I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice?
I want high cholesterol. I would eat bacon and butter and buckets of
cheese? Why? Because I might suddenly feel the need to. OK? Pal, I've seen
the future. Know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in
his pajamas, sipping a banana-broccoli shake."
Splice of Life
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http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-120602D
(The article starts up poorly, but becomes good)
This vaccine has the potential to prevent - not just cure or treat - over
a quarter million female deaths a year from cervical cancer. Much more
than that, it's a harbinger of the wonders that await us with biotech
vaccines.
Saving Your Bits for Posterity
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,56734,00.html
Someday, long after you're dead, your descendents will rummage through the
minutia of your life, eavesdropping on long-ago phone conversations,
reading private e-mail exchanges and watching the video highlights of your
existence.
Africa's new tech warriors
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2539327.stm
(Eventually we will all get there sometime)
Naula Kebba had trained and worked as an accountant in Kampala in Uganda.
But last year she decided she needed to learn about technology to keep up
with the pace of change in business.
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A single danish story
Cloned calfs had many more differences than expected.
(So let's hold of human cloning for a while please)
Klonede kalvefostre var ikke ens
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http://www.ing.dk/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Avis=IG&Dato=20021206&Kategori=BIO&Lopenr=112060104&Ref=AR
Obduktionen af klonkalvene på Landbohøjskolen afslørede overraskende
forskelle.
hilsen/regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark
http://www.futureport.dk/
Fremtiden, videnskab, skeptiscisme og transhumanisme
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