Archive for April, 2010

Here’s a list of articles that have recently caught my attention on the subject of life extension. I have posted them on my Blogging Life Extension website.

Articles include -

University of Miami Researchers ID Alzheimer’s Risk Gene

What You Eat Affects You, Your Kids and Your Grandkids

Snacking on Chocolate Could Reduce Heart Risk

Redefining Longevity: The New Centenarian Spirit

Personalized Medicine for Cancer Patients in a New Technology Era

and many more!

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In the battle over the future of web video, this is a big step…

Click here for the complete report found on Mashable.com.

Click here for more information on Facebook.

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Everything from televisions to smartphones and robots will obey consumers’ thoughts…

Click here for the complete article found on the Popular Science website.

Click here for more information on brain computer interfaces.

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With new apps coming every day, the potential business utility of Apple iPad lies ahead. Selecting the right iPad apps is key to transforming Steve Jobs’ latest toy into a valuable mobile business tool. To guide you in finding apps that will boost your productivity, we’ve identified the 18 best iPads apps for small and midsize businesses…

Click here for the complete report found on the Information Week website.

Click here for more information about the iPad.

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“Software and the Singularity” is the title of an article written by a former Microsoft programmer, Keith Curtis, who wrote a book (for a general audience) about the future of software called “After the Software Wars”, available for a free download. Eric Klien invited Keith to post an article on a Lifeboat Foundation blog.

Click here to access the article.

Click on “After the Software Wars” for more information about the book.

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If you were to deconstruct the 74-movie menu of the just-concluded Sonoma International Film Festival in search of a central cinematic theme, you might come close to something like this: Cerebral, soulless thinker (Ray Kurzweil) collides with happy, hippy and heartfelt clown (Wavy Gravy)…

Click here for the commentary titled “The Brain and the Clown” found on the Sonoma News website.

Click here to see the movie’s website.

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Michio Kaku is the co-founder of String Field Theory and is the author of international best-selling books such as Hyperspace, Visions, and Beyond Einstein. Michio Kaku is the Henry Semat Professor in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York.

Click herefor more information from and about Dr. Michio Kaku.

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A research team led by a University of Utah neuroscientist, Julie Korenberg, has identified a gene (STX1A)…

She and colleagues at California institutions performed genetic testing on 65 patients with Williams Syndrome…

Click here for the entire report found on the The Salt Lake Tribune website.

Click here for more information on intelligence genes.

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Facebook spreads to broader Web, offers personalization, potential challenge to Google…

Click here for the entire Fox News article…

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Chemist Dan Nocera’s work capturing and storing solar energy may save the world. No, really!

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The day is fast approaching when genetic engineering and computational implants will allow humans to become something more than human – to become transhuman…

Click here for the complete report. You may have to scroll down a bit to see it.

Click here for more information on transhumanism.

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A viewpoint from Pakistan…

The Pak Tea Houses of old may be gone, but online spaces have emerged in the void. Now as then, artists and intellectuals need not be legion to fulfil their service to their country; a drop of colour in a pail of water can go a long way…

Click here for some Pakistani perspective.

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Think it’s possible to shoot down a swarm of buzzing mosquitoes in mid-air? Or maybe you want to power up a remote flying vehicle? Tom Nugent is your man. The Seattle-area entrepreneur just might be the most versatile guy with a laser you’ve ever met…

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Researchers at the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE) are taking part in a European project aimed at creating an intelligent system comprising a robot and smart sensors that can support independent living for elderly people…

Click here for the entire article found on the Science Daily website.

Click here for more information on smart devices.

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