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The Top Ten Transhumanist Technologies
The Lifeboat Foundation has a special report detailing their view of the top ten transhumanist technologies that have some probability of 25 to 30-year availability. Transhumanism is a movement devoted to using technologies to transcend biology and enhance human capabilities.
I just needed to put this where I was sure to find it again…
via Paleo-Future
Via Warren Ellis
Christian angelic hierarchy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The Assumption of the Virgin by Francesco Botticini at the National Gallery London, shows three hierarchies and nine orders of angels, each with different characteristics
* First Hierarchy
o Seven chief Archangels (including Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael)
o Seraphim
o Cherubim
o Thrones or Ophanim
* Second Hierarchy
o Dominions or Dominations or Kyriotites
o Virtues or Dynameis
o Powers or Exousiai
* Third Hierarchy
o Principalities or Archai
o Archangels (all others)
o Angels
Shark’s virgin birth stuns scientists | Earth News | Earth | Telegraph
“A female hammerhead shark has given birth without the help of a male, after genetic tests revealed that its baby shark had no paternal DNA.
An international team reports that the shark’s ‘virgin birth’ was down to an unusual method of reproduction known as ‘parthenogenesis’, where an egg starts to divide without being fertilised.”
Mundane-SF: Encyclopedia of Life:
“Recently I got an iPod which now allows me to listen to all kinds of interesting broadcasts from around the world that were previously unaccessed. The aggregator software, the citizen journalism, the interviews with scientists who speak about what they believe in without the need to be filtered through the boring style required of scientific papers — all of this has appeared in the last couple of years as yet another phenomenon never mentioned in an SF story before it happened. Like most aspects of the internet.”
Paleo-Future: A look into the future that never was
Discussions abound right now about various sorts of “-punks,” steam-, cyber-, clock-, punk-, but I’ve had things in mind for some time that this site is bound to help me kick out of my brain and onto paper.
EDIT: Here’s the Google group