Month: February 2009
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Who decides when you die?
A heart wrenching article from the Boston Globe today. The article was titled – Who decides when you die? …recount how an 83-year-old woman who had survived melanoma for more than seven years arrived in the hospital’s intensive care unit with an array of other ailments including kidney failure. The woman, speaking with great clarity,…
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Daffodil Days
The American Cancer Society’s Daffodil Days are here… As the first flower of spring, the daffodil is a symbol of hope. To the American Cancer Society, it represents the hope we all share for a future where cancer is no longer a life-threatening disease. You can provide hope to all people affected by the disease…
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Ending the Atrocities of the FDA
From NaturalHealthNews.com, a new resource to this most humble web log… Ending the Atrocities of the FDA; Life Extension Urges Immediate Petition Action for Health Freedom (NaturalNews) What follows is a call-to-action article by William Faloon, founder of the Life Extension Foundation (www.LEF.org). NaturalNews and LEF are working together to publish this information as widely…
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What are the benefits of Mind Uploading?
Michael Anissimov from the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies poses the question: What are the benefits of Mind Uploading? Universal mind uploading, or universal uploading for short, is the concept, by no means original to me, that the technology of mind uploading will eventually become universally adopted by all who can afford it, similar…
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Motorized Nanobots!?
The media is abuzz with the announcement of a 250 micrometer motor that could someday be used to power tiny robots that swim through human blood vessels. Will tiny nanobots or man-made molecular structures travel the human body performing marvelous medical miracles in the coming decades? Absolutely! http://singularityhub.com/2009/01/20/motorized-nanobot-to-swim-through-human-arterieswe-dont-think-so/ Damn that is so cool. Nanotechnology is…