University of Northern Iowa
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2010
Viewed up close, the sloth appears as a hallucination, an ecosystem unto itself that softly vibrates with hundreds of exoparasites.spirulina The animal’s mottled appearance is due in part to a blue-green alga that lives symbiotically within its hollow hairs.
Symbiotic Sloths
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 15th, 2010
Healing Our Planet, Healing Ourselves is an ambitious collection of powerful ideas from some of the most advanced thinkers of our generation. In a series of interwoven essays and interviews, it explores the link between our individual wellness and the overall health of our ecosystems and planet, showing that they are inextricably linked. The thirty [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 12th, 2010
Sea slug surprise: It’s half-plant, half-animal – LiveScience- msnbc.com
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 31st, 2009
On July 24, 2009, a small group of scientists, entrepreneurs, cultural impresarios and journalists that included architects of the some of the leading transformative companies of our time (Microsoft, Google, Facebook, PayPal), arrived at the Andaz Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, to be offered a glimpse, guided by George Church and Craig Venter, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 31st, 2009
New Harvest is a nonprofit research organization working to develop new meat substitutes, including cultured meat — meat produced in vitro, in a cell culture, rather than from an animal.Because meat substitutes are produced under controlled conditions impossible to maintain in traditional animal farms, they can be safer, more nutritious, less polluting, and more humane [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 31st, 2009
The new science of quantum biology is teaching us about how the actual behavior of evolution is governed by disconcertingly spooky processes – time travel being one of them. Will quantum computation finally be realized by biomimicry, in organic systems? Evolution is the new (old) computation…and we’re about to take the reins.
The Spooky World [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 31st, 2009
Mention the word “transhumanism” to most of my friends, and they will assume you mean uploading people into a computer. Transcendence typically connotes an escape from the trappings of this world — from the frailty of our bodies, the evolutionary wiring of our primate psychologies, and our necessary adherence to physical law.
Reality Sandwich | [...]
Posted in Human Genome, Phantom DNA Effect, Uncategorized on Aug 16th, 2009
Have you ever wondered if there is more out there than what mainstream science tells you? Or why teaching and education is only about memorizing outdated? The movie clips below pick up the issue and provides scientific evidence that emotions affect our DNA. It explains how emotions can activate more than 20 out of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 21st, 2009
We now find ourselves at the dawn of a new age of direct genetic modification. Although the term “artificial life form” conjures up images of cyborgs or other creations of science fiction, the first such “artificial” creatures will actually be single-celled micro-organisms. Even though these human-engineered life forms will be extremely simple, they will have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 12th, 2009
A hallucinogenic compound found in a plant indigenous to South America and used in shamanic rituals regulates a mysterious protein that is abundant throughout the body, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have discovered.
Hallucinogen activates mysterious receptor | Science Blog
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