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November 13, 2010

Atomic Resolution Breakthrough in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

by Evan 057 — Categories: chemistry, nanotechnology, physics, science — Leave a comment

Under a scanning tunneling microscope (STM), molecules usually appear as indistinct blobs. But research published in the 20 August Physical Review Lettersshows how a recently developed type of STM can reveal the structure of a molecule in much greater detail. In this type of STM, a single hydrogen or deuterium molecule is attached to the probe tip, and the team showed that the pressure of this molecule against the probe leads to the dramatic improvement in imaging.

Continue at Physical Review Focus.

February 12, 2010

Erik Davis' Expanding Mind

by Evan 057 — Categories: biology, brain, cognition, entheogens, evolution, Information & Communication Technologies, language, nanotechnology, science, singularity, society, technology — Tags: brain — Leave a comment

Erik Davis has had a lot of very interesting podcasts recently on his show, Expanding Mind. I recently enjoyed listening to the Mark Pesce and RU Sirius interviews as well as the one with Richard Doyle, professor of (science &) Rhetoric at Penn State and Berkely and author of On Beyond Living, Wetwares and soon to be published The Ecodelic Hypothesis: Plants, Rhetoric and the Evolution of The Noösphere.

November 14, 2009

The map of the future

by Evan 057 — Categories: art, cognition, ecology, economy, Information & Communication Technologies, nanotechnology, poltics, science, singularity, society, technology, time — 1 Comment

WIRED commissioned some designers to create a map of the future and it is really, really, really cool.

To see the large scale images go here and select “original size” or use this zoomable version and select full-screen.

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November 3, 2009

2009 Singularity Summit videos

by Evan 057 — Categories: biology, brain, cognition, economy, education, Eschatology/2012, evolution, Information & Communication Technologies, lecture, nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals, physics, science, singularity, society, technology, video — Tags: brain — Leave a comment

Past few days I have been enjoying these really fascinating presentations from the 2009 Singularity summit. Some of this material is sheer brilliance and the subject matters discussed are immensely mind-expanding and thought-provoking:

life extension, Artificial General Intelligence, quantum computing, libertarian cyber-economics, mind-enhancement, human-computer interface, synthetic neurophotonics and the quantum correlates of consciousness!

24 talks and panels uploaded so far and more to come:

http://www.vimeo.com/siai/videos

October 30, 2009

Huzzah!

by Evan 057 — Categories: chemistry, cognition, cosmology, energy, Information & Communication Technologies, mathematics, nanotechnology, physics, science, technology — Leave a comment

Some cool science journalism this past week:

Smallest Electronic Component: Researchers Create Molecular Diode

Multiplying universes: How many is the multiverse?

Roger Penrose Says Physics Is Wrong, From String Theory to Quantum Mechanics

‘Magnetricity’ observed for first time

Rethinking relativity: Is time out of joint?

Dream Job: Exotic Psychologist

Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension

August 11, 2009

Nanotech and the Yuga Cycles

by Evan 057 — Categories: Eschatology/2012, evolution, nanotechnology, religion, science, society, spiritual healing, synchronos, technology, video — 1 Comment

Aerospace engineer and researcher of ancient religions, Boris Fritz, discusses the Yuga Cycles in this interesting 1/2 hour interview with Conscious Media Network:

Boris Fritz on the Yuga Cycles

April 18, 2009

The AlloSphere: Stunning data visualization

by Evan 057 — Categories: animation, art, biology, brain, chemistry, electronic music, Information & Communication Technologies, mathematics, music, nanotechnology, physics, science, technology, trippy, video — Tags: brain — Leave a comment

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, an entirely new way to see and interpret scientific data, in full color and surround sound inside a massive metal sphere. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the music of the elements …

[7 min.]

March 13, 2009

The Future of Energy: 'Spintronics'

by Evan 057 — Categories: energy, nanotechnology, physics, science, technology — Leave a comment

Yariv, a friend in San Francisco, clued me in on a breakthrough in magnetic materials that is sure to get quite a bit of attention in coming months. Apparently, physicists have developed a type of battery that generates electricity and potentially stores information without heat expenditure. Size-relative to conventional chemical batteries, these nano-based magnetic batteries produce hundreds of times more power and can be fully recharged in seconds. The implications for items such as cell-phones, hard-drives and cars are staggering.

Read the press release here.

February 22, 2009

Beyond the crisis, mindboggling science and the arrival of Homo evolutis

by Evan 057 — Categories: biology, economy, evolution, lecture, nanotechnology, science, singularity, society, technology, video — 6 Comments

MUST-SEE!

This is a comprehensive and thought-provoking 20 minute presentation by Juan Enriquez from the recent TED conference. He tells it like it is concerning the economic crisis and then takes us beyond to the volcano of technology that is about to erupt. With wit and levity Enriquez shows us what is happening in the fields of microbe, tissue and robotics engineering and how they are a part of the birth of a new animal: Homo evolutis.

February 21, 2009

Quantum Biology and Non-local Linguistics

by Evan 057 — Categories: biology, brain, chemistry, cognition, language, mathematics, nanotechnology, nature, physics, science, singularity, synchronos, technology — Tags: brain — Leave a comment

A meal for your mind: One article about the quantum correlates of consciousness and biosystems and another about the cognitive correlates of quantum theory.

Discover Magazine reports on sub-atomic behaviors such as the tunnel effect, entanglement and wave-function collapse being studied in the context of photosynthesis, smell, the life-extending properties of red wine, and consciousness.

With the advent of powerful new tools like femtosecond (10^-15 second) lasers and nanoscale-precision positioning, life’s quantum dance is finally coming into view.

—> DiscoverMagazine.com

And Physorg.com posted an intriguing article about modeling verbal communication with quantum theory.

Researchers from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia and the University of South Florida in the US have investigated the quantum nature of word associations and presented a simplified quantum model of a mental lexicon.

Later this year, the highly regarded Journal of Mathematical Psychology will publish a special issue of quantum models of cognition. In addition, quantum cognition is a prominent theme within the Quantum Interaction Symposia, which provide a forum for a growing body of researchers applying quantum theory to non-quantum domains.

Read full article here.

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