- Making an old brain young by regenerating neural plasticity
- Tandem warheads for defeating reactive armor
- Organic sugar molecules could point to alien life
- Material discovered that's almost as hard as diamond and slicker than teflon
- What a mere 10 years of abundant computing will bring us
Five for the Future 11-26-08
- Remote-control miscroscopic bio-bots
- Super-hydrophobic nano-coating never gets wet
- A shadow biosphere of alien life on Earth?
- Huge buried water glaciers on Mars
- 5 social media trends to watch out for
Five for the Future 11-19-08
- DNA fiberoptics
- Biosensing carbon nanotube threads
- NASA tests deep space internet
- First optical photos of an exoplanet (see also)
- Review of Singularity Summit 2008
Convergence Conference Liveblogging
George Dvorsky is liveblogging the Convergence transhumanist conference going on in California this weekend. Presentations cover things like whole brain emulation and AI, among other topics.
You can also cover people tweeting from the conference at #converge.
End of the Week, End of the World 11-14-08
Sorry about the lack of posts this week. We've been waiting on some new artwork to come in so we can show you, and we've also been busy proofreading the EP layout and assigning chapters of future books to freelancers. In the meantime, here is some end-of-the-week apocalypse for you:
Over at Avatar | Anima, John Carter McKnight is liveblogging the Global Catastrophic Risks conference, which is going on today in California. (This is the sort of stuff Firewall would be interested in in EP.) So far he's covered Jamais Cascio on "Risks and Resilience" and Eliezer Yudkowsky on "Cognitive Biases in the assessment of Risk."
George Dvorsky is also throwing out live updates on twitter.
image credit: Jamais Cascio