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This is a gateway to apocalypse: people will turn into a kind of evil (because that's the way we are and I suspect no nanotechnology will ever be able to change that) cyborgs, but where would the surplus of Earth's population go? Will it be simply wiped out? If this... more
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What makes us age and get old?
From the page: "Telomeres - programmed to die? Called telomeres, these molecular chains have often been compared to the blank leaders on film and recording tape. Indeed, telomeres seem to perform a similar function in aligning the DNA molecule during the replication... more
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Geneticists Discover a Way to Extend Lifespans to 800...
From the page: "Geneticists Discover a Way to Extend Lifespans to 800 YearsThere is now a way to extend the lifespan of organisms so that humans could conceivably live to be 800 years old. In an amazing development, scientists at the University of Southern California have... more
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The Curious Case of the Immortal Jellyfish | Discoblog |...
41 reviews • discovermagazine.com
Turritopsis nutricul, a jellyfish-like hydrazoan, is the only animal known to be potentially immortal. Once it reaches sexual maturity, Turritopsis looks like a tiny, transparent, many-tentacled parachute (only about 5mm in diameter) that floats freely in warm ocean waters.... more
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Cecilia Cotton Origami
As one who has trouble folding even a functional paper airplane, these mind-blowing origami examples leave me feeling ori-gammy. And the fact that math is involved is extra salt in the paper cut. Icosahedron
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Our Technological Future: Do You Want To Live Forever?
From the page: "Not everybody can mentally 'take' the idea of living forever. That's why Aubrey has opponents. (mainly old people who won't live long enough to see it) They attack him with meaningful and well thought-out arguments that really... more
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The L-Space Web: Death and What Comes Next
An entertaining very short story from Terry Pratchett.From the page:I AM IMPRESSED AND INTRIGUED, said Death. THE CONCEPT YOU PUT BEFORE ME PROVES THE EXISTENCE OF TWO HITHERTO MYTHICAL PLACES. SOMEWHERE, THERE IS A WORLD WHERE EVERYONE MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE, THE MORAL CHOICE,... more
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365 tomorrows & Apotheosis : A New Free Flash Fiction...
I really like the phrasing of the last sentence. Great story overall - makes you think.
