Holiday Wishes 12/11/09

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2020 Vision
Shel Silverstein, Harper Collins, 1974
the dirt roads of science Rick
DoveDecember 2009
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File0.30
www.joystiq.com/2009/08/29/guitar-hero-5-ad-featur
es-hugh-hefner-plethora-of-playboy-bunni/
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Marge Simpson poses for Playboy November
Coverhttp//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_on_en
_ot/us_playboy_marge_simpson

• Giving the star of "The Simpsons" the star
  treatment, complete with a data sheet, an
  interview and a 2-page centerfold.
• "We knew that this would really appeal to the
  20-something crowd,

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Sir Richard Branson standing beforeMothership
VMS Eve after his maiden flight
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Opened 29 March 1920. Regular scheduled flights
were introduced, carrying passengers,mail and
freight to Paris, Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
Entrance to Croydon Aerodrome, 1920
Imperial Airways airliner 'Hannibal' flying over
Croydon Airport, early 1930s
90 Years Later Las Cruces, New MexicoSpaceport
Completion targeted end of 2010
Virgin Galactic's commercial space operation
Paying passengersgoing up in 2011 40
million in deposits collected by June 2009 Five
spaceships ordered to meet the demand
www.spaceportamerica.com/
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In France, On November 12, 1906, Alberto
Santos-Dumont flew 220 meters (726 feet).
www.first-to-fly.com/History/Wright20Story/pr
izepatrol.htm
The launch, as seen from the International Space
Station
100 Years One Life Time
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Interorbital SystemsPersonal Satellite
Kit http//spacefellowship.com/2009/08/01/interorb
ital-syatems-tubesat-personal-satellite-kit/ http
//mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/jfoley/Summer2009/Sun_1320
_TubeSat20Utah20August202009201.pdf 8,000
kit includes launch intolow-earth-orbit on an
IOS NEPTUNE 30
Orbit-friendlylaunches beginin Q4 2010
after a few weeks,re-entry burn-up
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2-Person Crewed Capsule Launch from Spaceport
Tongain 2011 by Interorbital Systems (IOS) Test
Pilotshttp//spaceports.blogspot.com/2009/09/inte
rorbital-systems-has-crewed-capsule.htmlhttp//ww
w.interorbital.com/
800,000 per person when commercial service
begins in 2012
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A One-Way Ticket to MarsLawrence Krauss, New
York Times, Sep 1, 2009, www.nytimes.com/2009/09/0
1/opinion/01krauss.html
Sep 2009

• Colonists and pilgrims seldom set off for the New
  Worldwith the expectation of a return trip.
• Much of the cost of a voyage to Mars will be
  spenton carrying fuel for the return.

A significant fraction of scientists older than
65 who were askedare willing to live out their
remaining years on the red planet or elsewhere.
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This engine can take us to Mars in 39
dayswww.canada.com/technology/rocketenginecould
maketripsMarsrealistic/2119300/story.html
Oct 2009

• Mars and Earth are close together every two
  years.
• Previously, a crew would have to travel one way,
  wait a year,
• then fly back - raising huge problems for food,
  air and water storage.
• Ion drive makes a round trippossible in 90 days,
  
• during a single close period.

10Oct09 And this just happenedin the last
couple of weeks.
VASIMR engine, made by Ad Astra Rocket Co. of
Houston.
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• How they Used to Blow Smoke Up There

Deviceandpracticewere real
Phrase originationnot confirmed
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'Spider pill' used for colon scans
File 136
11 October 2009 The 'spider pill' is fitted with
a camera and is designed to be swallowed. Once
within the colon or intestine, the legs are
opened using a wireless radio connection from the
outside. Once the scan has been completed, the
spider pill exits the body as waste.  The device
has so far been tested on pigs.  http//www.tele
graph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6300636/Spider-pill-
offers-new-way-to-scan-for-diseases-including-colo
n-cancer.html http//www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1
109211/'Spider-pill'-used-for-scans http//player
.sbs.com.au/naca/naca/wna/Latest/playlist/Doctors
-trial-new-spider-pill-/
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The ConvAirCar buzzed San Diego for more than an
hour during a trial flight in November 1947. The
auto-plane prototype had a detachable fiberglass
car body that people could drive like any other
car. Like other vehicles, the flying kind could
also run out of gas, which is what the ConvAirCar
did on its third test flight. The  pilot survived
the crash. Plans for manufacturing the auto-plane
did not.
National Geographic, 12/03
Weve all been waiting for the flying car ...and
waitingand waitingand
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Terrafugia Achieves Maiden FlightWade Roush
3/18/09, www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/03/18/terrafu
gia-achieves-maiden-flight-live-blogging-from-the-
boston-museum-of-science/

• Terrafugia conducted its first flight on March 5
  2009.
• Terrafugia has set the stage for personal
  aviation, Dietrich said.
• Its what aviation enthusiasts have been
  striving for since 1918?the date of the first
  experiments with roadable aircraft.
• The two-seat, four-wheeled aircraft can fly up to
  450 miles at 115 miles per hour and has folding
  wings that ratchet out of the way when its on
  the ground.
• Narrow enough to tool down the highwaywhere it
  can go up to 65 mph and get 30 miles to the
  gallon.

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prototype that flew to Africa
projected commercial version

• Flying Car Flies From London To Africa
• Slashdot 25Feb09 It may not be exactly what
  people have envisioned or tried over the years,
  but the BBC reports that a flying car has flown
  from London across into Africa.

www.parajet.com/index.php?id138
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Scientists LevitateSmall AnimalsLiveScience,
29 November 2006 www.livescience.com/technology/0
61129_acoustic_levitation.html
Live ant levitatedby sound pressure
They float ants, beetles, spiders, ladybugs,
bees, tadpoles and fish in midair
The ant and ladybug appeared fine after 30
minutes, the fish did not fare as well out of
water
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Mice Levitated in LabLiveScience, 9 September
2009, http//news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090909
/sc_livescience/micelevitatedinlab

• A superconducting magnet that generates a
  fieldpowerful enough to levitate the water
  inside living animals.
• The mice quickly acclimate to levitation.
• After three hours they acted normally, including
  eating and drinking.

A three-week-old mouse weighing about 10 grams
levitated by magnetic fields, with a cage (a)
and without (b).
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Sony tabletop 360-degree 3-D display22Oct09
http//www.examiner.com/x-16352-Japan-Headlines-Ex
aminery2009m10d22-Sonys-tabletop-360-degree-3d-di
splay-product-video
File-1

• Suggested uses
• 3D photo frame
• 3D videophone
• 3D virtual pet
• 3D medical display
• 3D map

Can be seen from all directions by multiple
people no glasses needed
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Panasonic Full HD 3D11 September 2009,
www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/panasonic-full-hd-3d-e
xperience-eyes-on/
A picture where everything, regardless of
distancefrom the camerais in focus
And with Sony jumping on board we expect to see
3D televisions on shelves by next year's holiday
season.
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Worlds first mainstream 3D laptop, the Acer
Aspire 5738PG, launched alongside Windows 7on
October 22. Polarized glasses required.
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direct retinal imaging specs available
2010Eyeball projector lets you view pictures in
complete privacy
NEC
Brother

• Images are transparent, have an 800 x 600
  resolution, and appear as a 10cm² object at a
  distance of 1m.
• Brother has plans to commercialise the glasses
  next year, but it hasn't said how much it expects
  the specs to cost.
• NEC, also aiming at 2010, incorporate a
  microphone and provides real-time language
  translation that display subtitles as you talk
  with someone.

22Oct09 www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/10/22/brother_
rid_specs/ 26Oct09 www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/br
other-nec-look-to-invade-your-retinas-next-year/ w
ww.fareastgizmos.com/other_stuff/nec_develops_worl
ds_first_retinadisplay_translation_eyeglasses.php
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LEDs in your contact lenses?http//hplusmagazine.
com/articles/toys-tools/micro-machines-and-opto-el
ectronics-contact-lense

• The circuits in the lens are just a few
  nanometers thick, and the light-emitting diodes
  are one-third of a millimeter across.
• As the team continues to work on the basic
  technology, it hopes to add wireless
  communication capabilities and to provide power
  to the system using both radio-frequency
  techniques and solar cells placed on the lens.
• University of Washington
• www.news.com/2300-11393_3-6227089-3.html?tagne.ga
  ll.pg

We already see a future in which the humble
contact lens becomes a real platform, like the
iPhone is today.
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www.core77.com/challenge/humanpower/
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13 Oct 2009, http//www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/tra
velnews/6309898/Airport-scanner-shows-passengers-n
aked.html
www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/airport-trial
s-naked-passenger-scanner-20091014-gvxo.html

• The full body scanner, which is being trialed at
  ABQ, show up any breast enlargements, false
  limbs, piercings, and a clear outline of
  passengers' private parts.

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But power is an issue in technology and in just
plain life
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His 3D cells would provide 500 times more
absorption than available solar cells and nine
times more than cutting-edge 3D solar cells
16Sep2008, www.katu.com/news/local/28432984.html

• Williams work was evaluated by university
  professors and environmental scientists.
  Generally, the projects need to be at the
  graduate level.
• He is our youngest fellow in science that weve
  ever had. You would never know hes 12 looking at
  the quality of his work.
• www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/story.php?story_
  id122109656865633500

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First black hole for light created on EarthAnil
Ananthaswamy ,14Oct09, http//www.newscientist.com
/article/dn17980

• A theoretical design for a table-top black hole
  to trap light was proposed in a paper published
  earlier this year by Narimanov and Kildishev of
  Purdue University.
• Tie Jun Cui and Qiang Cheng at a University in
  China have turned their theory into practice.
• Electromagnetic waves are guided in the shell and
  then absorbed by the core.
• leads to a new way of harvesting solar energy.
• Narimanov is impressed "I am surprised that they
  have done it so quickly.

see Cheng, Qiang and Tie Jun Cui. 2009. Optical
black hole Broadband omnidirectional light
absorber. Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 041106, 27Jul.
http//link.aip.org/link/?APPLAB/95/041106/1
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Energy of the Future Igniting a Star With Laser
LightDave Bullock, 04May09, www.wired.com/science
/discoveries/news/2009/05/gallery_nif

• Using 192 separate lasers and a 400-foot-long
  series of amplifiers and filters, Lawrence
  Livermore's National Ignition Facility hopes to
  create a self-sustaining fusion reaction like the
  ones in the sun.
• "We are well on our way to achieving what we set
  out to do controlled nuclear fusion and energy
  gain for the first time ever.

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Models of Eel Cells Suggest Electrifying
Possibilities
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/nios-moe10
0208.php

• Artificial cells could be built that not only
  replicate the electrical behavior of electric eel
  cells but in fact improve on them. Artificial
  versions of the eels electricity generating
  cells could be developed as a power source for
  medical implants and other tiny devices, they
  say.
• Their calculations show that substantial
  improvements are possible. One design for an
  artificial cell generates more than 40 percent
  more energy in a single pulse than a natural
  electrocyte. Another would produce peak power
  outputs over 28 percent higher.

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We've Seen the Future, and It's
Unmanned14Oct09, www.esquire.com/features/unmanne
d-aircraft-1109

• Every so often in history, something profound
  happens that changes warfare forever.
• Next year, for the first time ever, the Pentagon
  will buy more unmanned aircraft than manned.

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Fed up with losing bandmates to sex, drugs, and
day jobs, Jay Vance decided toreplace them with
robots. Early came DRMBOT 0110 a basic drum
kit rigged with four sticks, bicycle brake
cables, and a homemade foot pedal. Captured! By
Robots was born. Computer-driven pneumatics make
sticks smack skins and creepy robot fingers
form killer chords. GTRBOT666, a foulmouthed,
7-foot-tall monstrosity, plays a mean
double-necked guitar.
www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/15-08/p
l_music
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Indoor Autonomous Helicopter
Unmanned vehicles flying without GPS through
unmapped indoor environments
Vehicle findsopen window in walland flies
through

• http//techtv.mit.edu/videos/4149
• Video platform for indoor autonomous flight.
• File3
• http//techtv.mit.edu/videos/3808
• Video seeker mission.
• Autonomously searching/navigating an indoor
  gps-denied environment to find a shining LED,
  somewhere.
• File246

Ruijie He, Sam Prentice and Nicholas Roy. 2008.
Planning in information space for a quadrotor
helicopter in a GPS-denied environment.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference
on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2008). Los
Angeles. (Winner, Best paper award).
http//mapleleaf.csail.mit.edu/nickroy/papers/icr
a08-rh.pdf Kollar, Thomas and Nicholas Roy. 2008.
Efficient optimization of information-theoretic
exploration in SLAM. Proceedings of the National
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI),
Chicago, pp. 1369-1375. http//mapleleaf.csail.mit
.edu/nickroy/papers/aaai08-tk.pdf
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We Dont Need You AnymoreAugust 3, 2009 by
Travis Deyle, http//www.hizook.com/blog/2009/08/0
3/high-speed-robot-hand-demonstrates-dexterity-and
-skillful-manipulation
File 3
Dribbles a ping-pong ball, spins a pen, throws
a ball, ties knots, tweezers a rice grain,
tosses/catchesa cellphone!
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Robot warriors no longer sci-fi5/16/2009, Gavin
Knight, www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11
82910/March-terminators-Robot-warrior

• The MK5 anti-aircraft system two 35mm cannons
  and an auto-loading magazine of 500
  high-explosive rounds, controlled by a computer.
• As the demo begins, the South African troops
  sense that something is wrong.
• There was nowhere to hide, the gun fired wildly,
  spraying explosive shells at a rate of 550 a
  minute, swinging 360 degrees like a high-pressure
  hose.
• When the robot had emptied its magazine, nine
  soldiers lay dead, another 14 seriously injured.
  A 'software glitch'.
• We went into Iraq in 2003 with zero robots. Now
  we have 12,000 on the ground.

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DIY Life-Forminghttp//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200812
25/ap_on_sc/do_it_yourself_dna
Meredith L. Patterson, a computer programmer by
day, conducts an experiment in the dining room of
her San Francisco apartment. She ordered
jellyfish DNA for a green fluorescent protein
from a biological supply company for less than
100. And she built her own lab equipment,
including a gel electrophoresis chamber, or DNA
analyzer, which she constructed for less than 25.
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Bio-Printer

• Two of these are used to print the bio-ink
  particles, a third unit is used to print the
  bio-paper/substrate (e.g. collagen gel).
  http//organprint.missouri.edu/www/facilities.php

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Mass produced living tissuehttp//gizmodo.com/540
1477/meat-bandaids-and-mass-production-of-living-
tissue

• A wet slab of protein that feels like a
  paper-thin slice of bologna. It's supple, slimy,
  but unlike meat, if you were to slice it down the
  center today, tomorrow the wound would heal. It's
  factory-grown living tissue.
• The flagship product, Apligraf,is the only
  living cell-based product that is FDA-approved .

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In-Vitro Meat will be fashioned from any animal,
even rare beasts like snow leopard, or Komodo
Dragon... even the DNA of extinct beasts --
"DinoBurgers at every six-year-old birthday
party. Cannibalism is open game, maybe "Stewed
Idi Amin for some. 17Nov2009 http//hplusmagazin
e.com/articles/bio/eight-ways-vitro-meat-will-chan
ge-our-lives
In-Vitro Meat -- aka tank steak, beaker bacon,
Frankenburger will appear in 3-10 years as a
cheaper, healthier, "greener" protein easily
manufactured in a metropolis.
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Profound need from the Muscular Dystrophy
community08Dec09 http//singularityhub.com/2009/
12/08/super-strength-substance-myostatin-one-step-
closer-to-human-trials/
Scientists got follistatin (a myostatin
blocker)to promote phenomenal muscle growth in
macaque monkeyswith few or no discernible
negative side effects. We may be
able to live with the strength of our youth
into our 80s. FDA test are next. Then more
testing before human clinical trials begin

• The belgian blue,bred towardsmyostatin blocking

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• http//www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/translate
  .html

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Video GamesBuild NeuronalIntelligence Circuits

• www.livescience.com/technology/081003-school-games
  .html
• Playing World of Warcraft, eighth graders have
  gone from barely stringing together two sentences
  to writing lengthy posts in their group's Web
  forum, where they discuss detailed strategies for
  gearing up their virtual characters and figuring
  out tough quests.

Give us 5 days
www.pnas.org/content/102/41/14931
www.livescience.com/health/090329-game-vision.html
-- www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/Daphne/Greenand
Bavelier.pdf People who play action video games
see contrast up to 58 percent better.
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Child-like intelligence created in Second
Lifehttp//itnews.com.au/News/72057,childlike-int
elligence-created-in-second-life.aspx

• Eddie has his own set of beliefs, and the ability
  to reason about his beliefs to draw conclusions
  in a manner that matches 4-year old children.
• This includes a partially developed theory of
  mind, which allows him to understand, predict
  and manipulate the behavior of human players.

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Drug-free memory erasure02Apr09, Ewen Callaway
www.newscientist.com/article/dn16893-drugfree-memo
ry-erasure-could-lead-to-spotless-minds.html

• The new procedure relies on a quirky property of
  memories called reconsolidation. The process of
  jogging a memory with an emotional or sensory
  jolt, for instance seems to make it malleable
  for a few hours.
• Marie Monfils, a neuroscientist at the University
  of Texas in Austin, tweaked a therapy sometimes
  used to treat PTSD, called extinction. Her team
  first taught rats to associate a musical tone
  with a slight electric shock. Playing the tone
  with no shock generally causes rats to freeze in
  fear. When her team played the tone over and over
  again, 19 times, the rats displayed less and less
  fear. This is standard extinction therapy.
  However, a month later their fear of the tone
  returned, strong as ever.
• To make the effect permanent, Monfils team jogged
  other rats' memories of shocks just once, waited
  an hour for memory reconsolidation to begin, and
  then played the tone over and over.
• "It's very simple and almost naïve to think it
  would work," Monfils says. But the fearful
  memories disappeared permanently.
• Rats that got extinction therapy after this
  reconsolidation window had closed relapsed as
  well.
• Monfils theorises that extinction therapy alone
  creates two parallel memories linked to the tone
  or blue square, one fearful, one not. Waiting for
  reconsolidation to kick in overwrites the
  original memory instead of making a parallel
  memory, she says.
• Using a nearly identical procedure, Daniela
  Schiller and Elizabeth Phelps, neuroscientists at
  New York University, tested whether they could
  block human volunteers from recalling a fearful
  memory. They presented their findings last month
  at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society's annual
  meeting in San Francisco. As with the rats,
  repeated exposure to the blue dot during the
  reconsolidation window seemed to block the
  fearful memory from returning.
• What's more, if volunteers learned to associate
  both blue and yellow squares with a shock,
  Schiller's team could selectively block fearful
  reactions to the blue dot, while maintaining the
  fear of yellow, she says.

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Get This Book

• www.youtube.com/profile_video_blog?sid0322DF17570
  AA647id09C3484AFA769EA5
• Brain Rules author John Madina, Ph.D.

Google Talk video-52min
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Brain Rule 1 Exercise boosts brain power
www.brainrules.net/exercise
File-1.5

• Researchers studied two elderly populations that
  had led different lifestyles, one sedentary and
  one active. Cognitive scores were profoundly
  influenced.
• If the sedentary populations become active, will
  their cognitive scores go up? Yes, it turns out,
  if the exercise is aerobic.
• Exercise acts directly on the molecular machinery
  of the brain itself. It increases neurons
  creation, survival, and resistance to damage and
  stress.

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30 minutes twice a week is all thats needed
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Brain Rule 10 Vision trumps all other senses
www.brainrules.net/vision
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The people surveyed were asked to respond "true"
or "false" to the statement "Human beings, as we
know them, developed from earlier species of
animals."
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Evolutions Third ReplicatorGenes, memes, and
now what?Susan Blackmore, NewScientist, 31 July
2009www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327191.500-e
volutions-third-replicator-genes-memes-and-now-wha
t.html

• Darwin's principle of evolution by natural
  selection need not apply just to biology. Given
  some kind of copying machinery that makes lots of
  slightly different copies of the same
  information, and given that only a few of those
  copies survive to be copied again, an
  evolutionary process must occur and design will
  appear out of destruction.
• Memes are a new kind of information - behaviours
  rather than DNA - copied by a new kind of
  machinery - brains rather than chemicals inside
  cells. This is a new evolutionary process because
  all of the three critical stages - copying,
  varying and selection - are done by those brains.
  
• So does the same apply to new technology?

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02Apr09, Wired http//blog.wired.com/wiredscience/
2009/04/newtonai.html

• In just over a day, a new computer programdid
  what took physicists centuries to
  completeextrapolating the laws of motion from a
  pendulum's swings.
• The program deduced the natural laws without a
  shred of knowledge about physics or geometry.
• Condensing rules from raw data has long been
  considered the province of human intuition, not
  machine intelligence.

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Direct Neural Read/WriteNov09,
www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/mf_optigenetics/

• The mice walkedseverely parkinsonian animals
  were restored to normal behavior.
• But imagine saying to a patient,
• Were going to genetically alter your brain by
  injecting it with viruses that carry genes taken
  from pond scum, and then were going to insert
  light sources into your skull.
• Two-way traffic could lead to human-machine
  fusions in which the brain truly interacts with
  the machine.
• It has suddenly leapt from the realm of wild
  fantasyto concrete possibility.

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Bionic Vision Cheri's Story (5/17/2005
)http//www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?story
id79475
Cheri says, It's like Robochick!
A tiny camera sends video signals into a
computer, which processes the information and
then sends it through two cables that plug into
each side of the skull. Electrodes inside the
skull stimulates the back of the brain, which
creates visual images, like the dots you see on
the huge scoreboards used at sports
stadiums. 17May05 www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.
aspx?storyid79475




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Rat Brain Robot NowHuman Brain Cells Next
File1

• Professor Warwick (who incidentally has a device
  implanted in his left arm that enables his
  nervous system to be connected to a computer) and
  his colleague Ben Whalley from the School of
  Pharmacy recently created a robot that is
  controlled by cultured rat neurons.

Surfdaddy Orca, 16Oct09, www.hplusmagazine.com/art
icles/robotics/using-human-E2809CwetwareE280
9D-control-robots
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Remote radio control of insect flight http//front
iersin.org/integrativeneuroscience/paper/10.3389/n
euro.07/024.2009/

• We demonstrated the remote control of insects in
  free flight via an implantable radio-equipped
  miniature neural stimulating system.
• Flight initiation, cessation and elevation
  control were accomplished through neural stimulus
  of the brain causing, suppressing, or modulating
  wing oscillation.
• Turns were triggered through direct muscular
  stimulus of the basalar muscles.

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THE INCREASING FREQUENCY OF BLACK
SWANS11Apr2009, John Robb, www.typepad.com/servic
es/trackback/6a00d83451576d69e201157013e133970b

• Black Swans are extreme events (9/11, financial
  collapse, etc.).
• We think Black Swans are rare, but they occur
  more frequently than typical analysis indicates.
  
• With increased global connectivity, weve
  introduced dynamic instability into global
  systems.  
• As you scale connectivity of a network it becomes
  more fit allowing each agent in the system to
  better meet their goals (health, wealth, etc.),
  also able to shrug off more small shocks.  
• But it is more prone to catastrophic failure
  events, and each increase in connectivity
  accelerates these chances.
• Societal decision making Short/medium term
  improvements assume that our situation can only
  get better and better.

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Somali sea gangs lure investors01Dec09 Reuters,
www.reuters.com/article/wtUSInvestingNews/idUSTRE5
B01Z920091201?sptrue
Pirates-R-Us
I am waiting for my share after I contributed a
rocket-propelled grenade for the operation. I
have made 75,000 in only 38 days since I joined
the 'company, Said Investor Sahra Ibrahim, a
22-year-old divorcee who got the weapon from her
ex-husband in alimony.
The shares are open to all we've made piracy a
community activity It is the main profitable
economic activity in our area and we depend on
their output. The district gets a percentage of
every ransom paid, and that goes on public
infrastructure, including our hospital and our
public schools. Let the navies continue their
search for us our motto for the job is 'do or
die'.
01Dec09 Reuters, www.reuters.com/article/wtUSInves
tingNews/idUSTRE5B01Z920091201?sptrue
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12Nov09 Juarez calls for U.N. to help quell
violencewww.nydailynews.com/news/world/2009/11/12
/2009-11-12_mexican_city_of_ciudad_juarez_calls_fo
r_un_to_help_quell_violence.html
U.S. has sent more than 5,000 soldiers, but the
killings and extortion have not abated.
Juarez, population 1.5 million, averages seven
homicides a day, 1,986 this year through
mid-October.
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Mexican Pot Gangs Infiltrate Indian Reservations
in U.S.05Nov09, Wall Street Journal,
http//online.wsj.com/article/SB125736987377028727
.html?modWSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond

• Illicit pot farms, the vast majority run by gangs
  with ties to Mexico, are growing fast across the
  country. discovered in 61 national forests
  across 16 states.
• Part of the trend is due to unforeseen
  consequences of stepped-up security on the U.S.
  border to slow the tide of illegal immigration
  from Mexico. The tighter border is also prompting
  an unwillingness by illegal farm workers to cross
  back and forth -- creating a year-round labor
  force in rural areas. Tribal police in Washington
  and Oregon say they expect Mexican gangs to keep
  reappearing every year during the summer harvest
  season. Says Chief Smith "If we ever catch them,
  we'll run them off the reservation."

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Kits for DIY System Hackingwww.plans-kits.com/kit
s.html
Includes a 50,000W military magnetron with
complete operational information, EMP rifle
plans, and 3 (12KV _at_ 1A) rectifiers. Can be
made the size of a super soaker water gun with a
range of over 300 yards. Could stall cars, cause
semiconductors to burn out, microprocessors to
malfunction, and erase computer data on hard
drives.
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Inducing a Pacemaker Heart Attackwww.technologyre
view.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?TRID760Candpg1

• Fu's software radio was capable of completely
  reprogramming a patient's ICD in his or her body.
  
• able to instruct the device not to respond to a
  cardiac event
• and tell the defibrillatorto initiate its test
  sequence--delivering 700 volts to the heart
• whenever they wanted.

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The futures already arrived.Its just not
evenly distributed yet.
William Gibson
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2020 vision
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Systems Engineer 1Best American JobNov 2009
Money Magazinehttp//money.cnn.com/magazines/mone
ymag/bestjobs/2009/snapshots/1.html 

• big thinkmanagers on large, complex projects.
• They figure out the technical specifications and
  coordinate the efforts of lower-level engineers
  working on specific project aspects.

• The transit system I work onreally makes a
  tangibledifference to people,
• says Anne O'Neil, chief systems engineerfor the
  New York CityTransit Authority.