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A “Ripping” Fine New Year
My New Year’s Resolution: In 2013, I’ll be “ripping” DVDs to make clip compilations for media literacy. And I’ll be encouraging K-12 teachers, school librarians, and t...See it on Scoop.it, via...
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Could Human Enhancement Turn Soldiers Into Weapons That Violate International...
New technologies reveal ambiguities and hidden assumptions in international humanitarian law. Science fiction, or actual U.S. military project? Half a world away from the battlefield, a soldier...
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Scientists take to Twitter to reveal their less than scientific methods
Mark Lorch: Scientists across the world are tweeting about how experiments really get done. Some are brutally honest, most are very funnySee it on Scoop.it, via Science and Stuff
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Scientists as Writers | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network
Scientists study murky ponds, holes in space, and atoms that refuse to touch. Science is inspiring and beautiful. But scientific articles are not. Most scientific articles ...See it on Scoop.it, via...
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Technology Attention Deficit Disorder
Keeping up with phone calls, sms messages, Facebook updates, tweets ... sometimes it feels like technology rules our lives. Our technology is causing us to develop symptoms of disorders such as...
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Blindsight: Animals That See without Eyes [Slide Show]: Scientific American
Recent insights into how animals see without eyes reveal that vision and light-detection are older and more widespread than biologists previously realizedAlistair Parker's insight:These new insights...
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Live-Holonics Project "holonic communication"
This project aims to study plant cell-cell communications by live cell analysis using new technologies.Alistair Parker's insight:Individual cells of multicellular organisms communicate with...
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working papers in art and design, volume 5
The emergence of practice-led research within the academy has brought into focus a problem of knowledge. While epistemological issues are always under consideration in research communities, what...
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Daniel H. Pink: Why bosses need to show their soft side - Telegraph
If you ever want to understand your boss, corner him (or her) at the next office party and see if he’ll play a little game. Tell him (or her) you need only 30 seconds.See it on Scoop.it, via Science...
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The tech getting disabled people into work
From bionic legs to social networks, technology is helping those with disabilities find and stay in work.See it on Scoop.it, via Science and Stuff
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Want to Biohack your Brain? – $50,000 Cranial Surgery Equipment costs only...
Nootropics are popular in our circles, but in my opinion there isn’t a non-prescription substance on the market right now that is staggeringly apparent in its effects.See it on Scoop.it, via Science...
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The future according to Google's Larry Page - Fortune Tech
Google CEO Larry Page envisions a future in which computers plan your vacations, drive your cars, and anticipate your whims. Audacious? Maybe. But Page’s dreams have a way of coming true.See it on...
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Totally blind mice get sight back
Totally blind mice have had their sight restored by injections of light-sensing cells into the eye, UK researchers report.See it on Scoop.it, via Science and Stuff
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No smartphone for Irene? You can still use Twitter, Facebook
Most Americans still don't have smartphones, and if you're among them, and want to access Twitter and Facebook while you're on the move from...Alistair Parker's insight:I am not sure how old this...
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'Cyborg yeast' run by a computer
Scientists precisely control gene activity in brewer's yeast using computer-based feedback - an idea that may be used to help produce biofuels and drugs.See it on Scoop.it, via Science and Stuff
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Harvard creates cyborg flesh that’s half man, half machine | ExtremeTech
Bioengineers at Harvard University have created the first examples of cyborg tissue: Neurons, heart cells, muscle, and blood vessels that are interwoven by nanowires and transistors.See it on...
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IBM - Smarter Planet - The IBM 5 in 5 - United States
IBM presents The 5 in 5 in five sensory categories, through innovations that will touch our lives and see us into the future. #IBM5in5Alistair Parker's insight:add your insight...Innovations that will...
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Privacy goggles fool hidden facial-recognition cameras
A “privacy visor” that uses infrared light to interfere with facial recognition technology has been developed to thwart the steady rise in computer-based surveillance in Japan.The goggles are useful...
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'Privacy visor evades hidden cameras'
A pair of glasses dubbed a "privacy visor" is developed to thwart hidden cameras using facial-recognition software.Alistair Parker's insight:add your insight...See it on Scoop.it, via Science and Stuff
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15,000 Raspberry Pis for UK schools – thanks Google!
Click here to edit the contentAlistair Parker's insight:Google has donated 15,000 Raspberry Pi computing boards to UK schools.While a million of the cheap and cheerful, education-focused computing...
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Technology-Driven Community Building Activities with Cell Phones
Click here to edit the contentAlistair Parker's insight:Beth Dichter's insight:If you are looking for "mobile learning and technology-based activities that facilitate a sense of community in a variety...
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OpenCog: an integrative cognitive architecture
Ben Goertzel is an American author and researcher in the field of artificial intelligence. He is currently Chief Science Officer of Hong Kong financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings, Chief Executive...
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Is human enhancement disenchanting? (Part One)
Although there are some enthusiasts, many people I talk to are deeply ambivalent about the prospects of human enhancement, particularly in its more radical forms. That’s why in this blog post I will...
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The Golem Genie and Unfriendly AI (Part Two)
This is the second (and final) part in my series looking at the arguments from Muehlhauser and Helm’s (MH’s) paper “The Singularity and Machine Ethics”.Alistair Parker's insight:add your insight...See...
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The Golem Genie and Unfriendly AI (Part One)
This is the first of two posts on Muehlhauser and Helm’s article “The Singularity and Machine Ethics”. It is part on my ongoing, but completely spontaneous and unplanned, series on the technological...
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The Infamous HAL 9000 Was Built Around a Nikkor 8mm f/8 Fisheye Lens
Here's an interesting bit of photography/movie trivia that surfaced recently. Remember the infamous HAL 9000? HAL 9000 was the computer villain from ArAlistair Parker's insight:add your insight...See...
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A stylish new brain-sensing headband | KurzweilAI
Muse wearable brainwave headband (credit; InteraXon) Finally: a brainwave-sensing gadget disguised as a stylish wearable headband that would fit right inAlistair Parker's insight:add your...
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Preserving the self for later emulation: what brain features do we need? |...
(Credit: iStockphoto) Let me propose to you four interesting statements about the future: 1. As I argue in this video, chemical brain preservation is aAlistair Parker's insight:add your insight...See...
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Can You Feel Me Now? The Sensational Rise of Haptic Interfaces | Wired Design...
Haptics is to touch the way optics is to sight. It's a user interface that circumvents the cluttered inputs of sight and sound, and it's appearing in an increasing number of objects we interact with...
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Archeodatalogy :Entwined ,Enmeshed, Entangled
Entwined, Enmeshed, Entangled – Three modes of ‘being’ pertinent to our cyborgization process Abstract: By redesigning the conceptual landscape of our networked inter-relationality we may finally...
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