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Feb 20, 2023

NASA Activities This Week: Naming Moon Mountain, Collecting Mars Sample; What Other Space Undertaking Makes the List?

Posted by in categories: economics, education, space travel

NASA’s mission has always been dedicated to promoting science, technology, aeronautics, and space exploration to improve education, economic vitality, environmental stewardship, innovation, and most importantly knowledge.

For the past week, the space agency has achieved a lot in exploring outer space and shared important insights for further research. From naming a mountain on the Moon, watching and helping from space, and gathering rock samples, here are a few stories that made it to the list:

Feb 20, 2023

United Nations Meets Today to Finalize Global Treaty for the Ocean

Posted by in categories: economics, geopolitics, sustainability, treaties

UN hopes to complete revisions to the Law of the Sea governing the protection of marine biodiversity.


In 2017, the members of the General Assembly of the United Nations convened to review the existing Convention on the Law of Sea with the idea to look at providing protection for marine biodiversity and ocean waters beyond marine national government boundaries and exclusive economic zones. Subsequently, there have been meetings at the United Nations to work through outstanding issues with the last in August 2022. A revised Intergovernmental conference is now underway and expected to last two weeks to complete a new High Seas Treaty.

The world’s oceans and seas cover more than 70% of the planet’s surface. The ocean contains 1.35 billion cubic kilometres (324 million cubic miles) of water representing 97% of all the water on the planet. The ocean is where life on Earth first came from and is what makes the continuation of life on this planet possible.

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Feb 19, 2023

Researchers develop greener alternative to fossil fuels

Posted by in categories: economics, nanotechnology, particle physics, solar power, sustainability

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Chemistry have engineered silicon nanowires that can convert sunlight into electricity by splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen gas, a greener alternative to fossil fuels.

Fifty years ago, scientists first demonstrated that liquid water can be split into oxygen and using electricity produced by illuminating a semiconductor electrode. Although hydrogen generated using is a promising form of clean energy, low efficiencies and have hindered the introduction of commercial solar-powered hydrogen plants.

An economic feasibility analysis suggests that using a slurry of electrodes made from nanoparticles instead of a rigid solar panel design could substantially lower costs, making solar-produced hydrogen competitive with fossil fuels. However, most existing particle-based light-activated catalysts, also referred to as photocatalysts, can absorb only , limiting their energy-conversion efficiency under solar illumination.

Feb 19, 2023

Infinite Resources — clean energy in the Arctic

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, climatology, cryptocurrencies, economics

A conversation with Jeff Krehmer about his upcoming book.

Clean energy, clean water, hydrogen economy, airships, bitcoin mining and more, much more.

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Feb 18, 2023

Autonomous cargo drone airline Dronamics reveals it’s raised $40M, pre-Series A

Posted by in categories: drones, economics, robotics/AI

Autonomous aircraft have long been thought of as having the most potential, though not in the realm of glitzy people-carrying drones so much as the more sedate world of cargo. It’s here where the economic savings could be most significant. Large, long-range drones built specifically for cargo have the potential to be faster, cheaper and produce fewer CO2 emissions than conventional aircraft, enabling same-day shipping over very long distances. In fact, the “flying delivering van” is considered the holy grail by many cargo operators.

In this space there are a number of companies operating, and these include: ElroyAir (California, raised $56 million), hybrid electric, VTOL, so so therefore short range; Natilus (California, funding undisclosed) uses a blended wing body, and is a large, longer-term project entailing probably quite high costs in certification and production; and Beta (Vermont, $886 million raised), which is an electric VTOL.

Into this space, out of Bulgaria (but HQ’d in London), comes Dronamics. The startup has already attained a license to operate in Europe, and plans to run a “cargo drone airline” using drones built specifically for the purpose. Dronamics claims its flagship “Black Swan” model will be able to carry 350 kg (770 lb) at a distance of up to 2,500 km (1,550 miles) faster, cheaper and with less emissions than currently available options.

Feb 18, 2023

AI and the Transformation of the Human Spirit

Posted by in categories: business, economics, employment, encryption, mathematics, robotics/AI, transportation

A second problem is the risk of technological job loss. This is not a new worry; people have been complaining about it since the loom, and the arguments surrounding it have become stylized: critics are Luddites who hate progress. Whither the chandlers, the lamplighters, the hansom cabbies? When technology closes one door, it opens another, and the flow of human energy and talent is simply redirected. As Joseph Schumpeter famously said, it is all just part of the creative destruction of capitalism. Even the looming prospect of self-driving trucks putting 3.5 million US truck drivers out of a job is business as usual. Unemployed truckers can just learn to code instead, right?

Those familiar replies make sense only if there are always things left for people to do, jobs that can’t be automated or done by computers. Now AI is coming for the knowledge economy as well, and the domain of humans-only jobs is dwindling absolutely, not merely morphing into something new. The truckers can learn to code, and when AI takes that over, coders can… do something or other. On the other hand, while technological unemployment may be long-term, its problematicity might be short-term. If our AI future is genuinely as unpredictable and as revolutionary as I suspect, then even the sort of economic system we will have in that future is unknown.

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Feb 17, 2023

REVERSE AGING — Sounds Too Good To Be True? | Dr David Sinclair Interview Clips

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics, genetics, life extension

A couple minutes of your time for a little optimism.


Dr David Sinclair talks about no matter all the push backs and criticizes, he believes reverse aging therapy for human will be succeeded in this short clip.

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Feb 17, 2023

Let Food Be Thy Medicine

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, economics, education, food, health, media & arts, policy

In collaboration with the UC San Diego Center for Integrative Nutrition, the Berry Good Food Foundation convenes a panel of experts to discuss the rise of comprehensive medicine and nutritional healing to treat chronic disease and maintain general well-being. [6/2018] [Show ID: 33486]

Future Thought Leaders.
(https://www.uctv.tv/future-thought-leaders)

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Feb 15, 2023

How to Prevent Almost ALL Disease — The Medlife Crisis Podcast #1

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics, life extension, policy

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Feb 15, 2023

The #BenZion #Futurism #Podcast is back!

Posted by in categories: economics, life extension, robotics/AI, sustainability

So please for Tech news and views from the perspective of building a humane and sustainable economic system, check them all out!
And share them with your friends!

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Episode 24 discusses:
Ben Zion and Dr. Hale discuss the two most exceptional 21st century projects (beyond those to do with building a humane and sustainable economic system, which should have rightly been achieved in the 20th century) namely Universal Superlongevity and Human-Centered-Artificial-Superintelligence, and the noble work of Ageless Partners in the life extension arena.(continued in ep. 25)

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