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When climate is iffy, birds sing a more elaborate tune
Why is it that some birds sing such elaborate songs and others not so much? A new study published online on May 21st in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, says that climate patterns might be...
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Ecology should be an honorable profession, but its leadership is flawed when they distort data, denigrate human existence, foment hysteria to sell apocalyptic screeds, and reject technological...
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The Smarter-Than-Human AIs Won’t Rule the World but More-Than-Humans Will
A conversation with More Than Human author Ramez Naam From implants and brain-computer communication to genetic therapies to brain enhancement, Ramez Naam’s 2005 book, More Than Human: Embracing the...
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“Frankenfood” and Futuristic Farming
GM crops are commonplace in the developed world. Across the USA, they account for more than 80% of all maize, 86% of cotton, and 92% of the soya bean crop grown (according to the US Department of...
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Fight Global Warming with Genetically Altered Trees!
Could genetically altered trees and plants help to counteract global warming? Christer Jansson and a research team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory just...
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Dr. Frank Vertosick Interview
C.E. Atkins: To start, can you talk about emergent properties and how they arise out of networks? FV: Emergent properties are almost magical properties that manifest out of a bunch of simpler units...
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The City as an Ecosystem
Currently our urban design and development practices work within the framing of modernism, which positions humans at the centre of existence that prioritises the status of objects and operates through...
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Top 13 Transhumanist Papers in Nature 2012
13 papers from Nature that were among the most widely read, cited, and circulated on social media and might be of interest to H+ readers. Bright minds and dark attitudes: lower cognitive ability...
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Abundance at the Bottom: Algae Based Nutritional Supplement and Sustainable...
Terra Endeavors is a social entrepreneurship firm collaborating with rural communities in developing regions around the world to produce and distribute algae-derived nutritional supplements while...
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The End of Anger
We are entering the age of the Super Empowered Angry Man. Individuals will have access to tools that give them dangerous abilities beyond anything we’ve seen so far. A frightening possibility,...
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Robots in Ecology: Welcome to the machine
1. WHY USE ROBOTS IN ECOLOGY? Ecology as a scientific discipline dates back to Renaissance, yet it has only flourished over the past 50 years. Long considered second class “soft” science, it now...
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Interview – Kim Stanley Robinson – Utopia, Transhumanism, Social Systems,...
Renowned Science Fiction author, Kim Stanley Robinson is interviewed by H+ director Adam Ford. Robinson’s novels have won eleven major science fiction awards, and have been nominated on twenty-nine...
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Beyond Limits: Terra-Enhancement
With emergence of ever more sophisticated 3D printers and the possibility of truly self-sustainable households that might emerge, the obvious criticism is that the raw materials must still originate...
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Mother Nature 2.0: Healing the Violent Psychopath
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the yearling together; and a little child shall lead them. Isaiah:11:6...
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Book Review: The Infinite Resource by Ramez Naam (2013)
The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet is IEET Fellow Ramez Naam’s case for a market-driven solution that will simultaneously preserve the current economic order and avert all...
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How to Terraform Mars
NASA and other science organizations have been discussing a process called terraforming for a very long time. Terraform means to make like Earth. Many proposals have been submitted on the best way...
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MANIFESTO FOR THE OBVIOUS INTERNATIONAL and THE SYNERGETIC OMNI SOLUTION (SOS)
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); With every passing moment, the exponentially-intensifying causes of the social, political, and ecological crises currently faced by peoples across...
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Human Mortality: Individual and Collective
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); It has been a major triumph of human civilization: Never before in evolutionary history has a species lifted itself from Darwin’s Struggle for...
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Gene Drives
Named for their ability to “drive” themselves and nearby genes through populations over many generations, gene drives can spread even if they reduce the fitness of individual organisms. They...
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“What Looks Like Cooperation is Really Selfishness”
Three years late, Scientific American is reacting to a paper on evolution of cooperation [2012] with a hint that something is rotten in the state of Denmark. This is what my wife used to call an...
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