Archive for the ‘science’ tag
Aug 1, 2019
MIT’s Dr. Robert Langer — The “Edison of Medicine” — ideaXme Show — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: 3D printing, aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, disruptive technology, DNA, futurism, health, life extension
Mar 29, 2019
Dr. Peter de Keizer — Cleara Biotech BV — Senolytics — IdeaXme — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, DNA, genetics, health, life extension, science, transhumanism
Mar 2, 2019
Dr. Gerald Pollack — Water, and the Hydro-Dynamic aspects of Life, Health and Aging — Ira Pastor — IdeaXme
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, biological, biotech/medical, cryonics, disruptive technology, DNA, futurism, health, life extension, science
Dec 20, 2018
Ira Pastor — Ayersville Schools Discussion — Bioquark Inc.
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, DNA, futurism, genetics, health, life extension, neuroscience
Had a great time with my regenerative biology Q&A session with Ayersville (Ohio, USA) Schools 2nd graders and high school advanced anatomy class — so happy to see kids out there that are interested in these topics at such a young age — creating the future, one mind at a time — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_uu9f7nafc
Jun 26, 2018
Experimental Drug Injection Causes the Brain to Grow New Neurons
Posted by Nicholi Avery in categories: aging, bioengineering, neuroscience
For the first time ever researchers have had a breakthrough in creating a cocktail of drugs that caused new neurons to grow in the brains of mice.
In my last article I gave a detailed account on the debate of neurogenesis. While some neuroscientists claim that neurogenesis takes place within the adult mammalian human brain other researchers contest that idea claiming that new neurons stop developing at a very young age. Whichever side of the debate you are on one thing remains certain, that there are neurological diseases that leave negative impacts on cognitive function. This has left researchers looking for various ways to treat Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other brain damage.
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Sep 14, 2017
Unexpected Futurist: Mark Twain, Tesla, and a Worldwide Visual Telephone System
Posted by Johnny Boston in categories: education, entertainment, fun, futurism, internet, media & arts, mobile phones, rants
When one thinks of Mark Twain, one thinks of folksy wit, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer and the Mississippi River. Twain’s work immortalized the rapidly changing United States of the 1800s. But in his personal life, Twain often preferred the future to nostalgia, supporting women’s suffrage and civil rights, and frequently being contemptuous of what he considered to be the absurd and corrupt values of the past. He harbored a long running fascination with technology and new gadgets, and frequently invested in the latter — albeit with spotty success, at best. But Twain cemented his becoming an honorary futurist via his long friendship with inventor and Mad-scientist archetype Nikola Tesla.
Sep 7, 2017
Unexpected Futurist: Ben Franklin envisions 2776 — and Cryonics
Posted by Johnny Boston in categories: aging, cryonics, education, entertainment, futurism, health, human trajectories, innovation, media & arts, science, time travel
In Unexpected Futurist, we profile the lesser known futurist side of influential individuals. This episode’s unexpected time-traveler: Benjamin Franklin. Ben Franklin was an inventor, observer, electricity pioneer, and serial experimenter, so it’s not entirely surprising he looked to the future. But it turns out he was looking to the far, far future. In 1780 he wrote a letter to a friend in which he lamented that he was born during the dawn of science.
Aug 24, 2017
Futurist Gray Scott: We are Part of a Technological Cosmos
Posted by Johnny Boston in categories: biological, bionic, electronics, evolution, futurism, human trajectories, innovation, media & arts, philosophy, robotics/AI
How will our relationship to technology evolve in the future? Will we regard it as something apart from ourselves, part of ourselves, or as a new area of evolution? In this new video from the Galactic Public Archives, Futurist Gray Scott explains that we are a part of a technological cosmos. Do you agree with Scott that technology is built into the universe, waiting to be discovered?
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Aug 7, 2017
If we can build a brain, what is the future of “I”?
Posted by Johnny Boston in categories: biological, biotech/medical, ethics, futurism, health, transhumanism
The study of consciousness and what makes us individuals is a topic filled with complexities. From a neuroscience perspective, consciousness is derived from a self-model as a unitary structure that shapes our perceptions, decisions and feelings. There is a tendency to jump to the conclusion with this model that mankind is being defined as self-absorbed and only being in it for ourselves in this life. Although that may be partially true, this definition of consciousness doesn’t necessarily address the role of morals and how that is shaped into our being. In the latest addition to The Galactic Public Archives, Dr. Ken Hayworth tackles the philosophical impact that technologies have on our lives.
