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>> SINGULARITY SUMMIT
2007 - The
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence presents
the Singularity Summit 2007, a major two-day event bringing
together 18 leading thinkers to address and debate a historical
moment in humanity's history -- a window of opportunity to
shape how we develop advanced artificial intelligence.
>> THE COLLAPSE OF COMPLEX
SOCIETIES - Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world
history. Dr. Tainter describes nearly two dozen
cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations.
He then develops a new and far-reaching theory that accounts
for collapse among diverse kinds of societies, evaluating his
model and clarifying the processes of disintegration by detailed
studies of the Roman, Mayan and Chacoan collapses.
SCHIZOPHRENIA
DRUG SHOWS PROMISE - Scientists at Eli Lilly say the first human trial of a new
schizophrenia drug shows promise for sufferers of the debilitating
mental illness... Schizophrenia affects around 1% of the population
and is a chronic mental illness. The main symptoms are hallucinations
(hearing voices), delusions (a firm belief in something that
isn't true) and changes in outlook and personality.
>> THE
3RD ANNUAL INTEGRAL SPIRITUAL CENTER GATHERING - Considered
by some as the path to tomorrow's religion, and among the
most profound gatherings in the world of spiritual practice
today, Integral Spiritual Center is hosting its third annual
gathering of some of the most prominent spiritual leaders
in the world... For the first time ever, the wisdom of all
the spiritual traditions are available and are being practiced
by a unique group of lineage masters who are also transcending
their lineages with an unprecedented integral approach to
spirituality.
THE
'M 200G' FLYING SAUCER CAR -
It is the M 200G, otherwise known as a "flying saucer",
which is being built by a company in Davis, California called
Moller International.
>> CLIMATE CHANGE DROVE
HUMAN EVOLUTION -
Climate change appears to have been a significant driver
of human evolution, report researchers writing in this week's
issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy
of Science (PNAS).
>> MOTHER
NATURE IS GOOD FOR HUMANS - When your mom told you to go outside and play
-- she really did know what was best for you. Just being outdoors
or having access to the natural world has been proven to have
physical and mental health benefits. And new research has now
found that the more diverse and vibrant an ecosystem is, the
healthier it is for us.
>> AUBREY
DE GREY'S 'ENDING AGING' BOOK PUBLISHED - Dr. de Grey believes that the key biomedical
technology required to eliminate aging-derived debilitation
and death entirely -- technology that would not only slow but
periodically reverse age-related physiological decay, leaving
us biologically young into an indefinite future -- is now within
reach.
>> NASA
STUDY PREDICTS MORE SEVERE STORMS WITH GLOBAL WARMING -
NASA scientists have developed a new climate model that indicates
that the most violent severe storms and tornadoes may become
more common as Earth’s
climate warms.
RICHARD
GERE URGES OLYMPICS BOYCOTT - Gere, chairman of the International Campaign for Tibet, said
the 2008 Beijing Olympics were a good opportunity to encourage
China to end human rights abuses in Tibet and allow the Himalayan
region to decide its future.
>> TIBETAN
GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE REPUDIATES CHINA’S REINCARNATION
RULES - The democratically-elected
Tibetan government-in-exile (TGIE) has strongly rebuked the
Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to seize control of
Tibetan Buddhist reincarnations through regulations which
went into effect September 1st. In a press statement issued
jointly with the heads of all the schools of Tibetan Buddhism,
the TGIE calls the Chinese government’s new regulations “ludicrous
and unwarranted.”
>> NEXT
IN BIOFUELS: POULTRY POWER -
Poultry poop is a serious ecological problem in Virginia.
So is the burning of fossil fuels. So it's not surprising that
environmentalists and farmers are so enthused by a Virginia
Tech scientist who is developing technology to turn poultry
waste into a safer fertilizer and a biofuel that resembles
maple syrup.
>> TIMES ATLAS SHOWS
EFFECT OF GLOBAL WARMING - The drastic effects of climate change across
the globe are disclosed in a new world atlas. Cartographers
of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World have had to re-draw
coastlines and reclassify land types because of the effects
of global warming.
>> STORM
WORM DWARFS WORLD'S TOP SUPERCOMPUTERS - The network of compromised Microsoft Windows
computers under the thumb of the criminals who control the
Storm Worm has
grown so huge that it now has more raw distributed computing
power than all of the world's top supercomputers, security
experts say.
>> DO
WE OVERVALUE EXPERT ADVICE? - A new study appearing in the journal Interfaces suggests...
that people without any expertise in foreign policy can make
snap predictions about the outcome of major conflicts almost
as well as experts.
TENS
OF THOUSANDS ATTEND FOUR-DAY 'DRAGONCON' EVENT - DragonCon is named for its beginnings in
the Dragon Alliance of Gamers and Role-Players, a local science
fiction and gaming group. The first convention was in 1987
and had about 1,400 attendees... In only eight years, convention
attendance topped 10,000. By 1999, more than 20,000 were descending
on the city. In 2005 and 2006, convention attendance reached
30,000.
>> POPE
LEADS ECO-FRIENDLY FESTIVAL - The Catholic
Church has declared Sunday "Save Creation Day" as
Pope Benedict joined about 300,000 young Roman Catholics
for an eco-friendly festival... Wearing green vestments,
the pontiff told the crowd it was up to them to save the
planet from development which often upset "nature's
delicate equilibrium".
RUSSIA
TO SEND MANNED MISSION TO THE MOON BY 2025 -
Russia plans to send cosmonauts to the Moon by 2025 and
establish a permanent manned base there in 2027-2032.
>> POSSIBLE
COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER BREAKTHROUGH - Researchers
at Penn State, the USDA and Columbia University have had
a research paper accepted by Science magazine that outlines
the first published information on a possible cause of
Colony Collapse Disorder … commonly known as CCD.
But Science and for the most part the researchers are being
tight-lipped about what’s in that paper. The secrecy
surrounding this research has been extraordinary and some
of the activities of the researchers has left us scratching
our heads.
RON
PAUL GOES VIRAL - Passengers on a plane leaving
New York could see three words in 4-foot block letters
painted on an East Village rooftop terrace as they ascended:
GOOGLE RON PAUL. The entreaty to search the Internet for
news of the Republican congressman from rural Texas is
one of the more visible signs of enthusiasm from a do-it-yourself
base of Web fans. Their support doesn't show up in public
opinion polls, but it's unmatched among presidential candidates
in its passion.
>> GLOBAL
FOOD CRISIS LOOMS - Climate change and an
increasing population could trigger a global food crisis
in the next half century as countries struggle for fertile
land to grow crops and rear animals, scientists warned
yesterday.
IBM
STORES DATA ON SINGLE ATOMS - IBM Corp. has
demonstrated how to perform certain computer functions
on single atoms and molecules, a discovery that could someday
lead to processors the size of a speck of dust, the company
said Thursday.
RUN
YOUR HOUSE ON A PRIUS - When Hurricane Frances
ripped through Gainesville, Fla., in 2004, Christopher
Swinney, an anesthesiologist, was without electricity for
a week. A few weeks ago, Dr. Swinney lost power again,
but this time he was ready. He plugged his Toyota Prius
into the backup uninterruptible power supply unit in his
house and soon the refrigerator was humming and the lights
were back on.
>> AL
GORE, JAMES HANSEN, & CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE -
What does it mean when one of the top scientific leaders
ringing the alarm on global warming, along with a top political
leader, both suggest, in so many words, nonviolent direct
action (or civil disobedience) to confront the challenge
of climate change?
NEW
THEORY OF HOW ANCIENT CITIES DEVELOPED - Archeologists
have thought cities generally began in a single small area
and grew outward -- but evidence indicates that the urban
area at Tell Brak was a ring of small villages that grew
inward to become a city.
>> FOLLOWUP
2: U.S. OPPOSITION LEADERS WARN OF POTENTIAL 9/11-LIKE
ATTACK - Three other people have now joined
Dahlia Wasfi in calling "The Kennebunkport Warning" a
hoax.
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