May 2013
32 posts
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House of Mind: Terminal Lucidity →
houseofmind:
I was introduced to this concept last week while I was attending the funeral of someone who was thought to have experienced this during his last day alive. I visited the home where he passed away and was told that the nurses and family members were in awe of his passing because he had become…
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smalltownbigguy:
in the south we don’t say “you’re a dumb fuck” we say “bless your heart” and i think that’s beautiful.
Cern closes in on antigravity answer →
rhamphotheca:
Researchers at Cern in Switzerland have tested a novel way to find out if antimatter is the source of a force termed “antigravity”.
Antimatter particles are the “mirror image” of normal matter, but with opposite electric charge.
How antimatter responds to gravity remains a mystery, however; it may “fall up” rather than down…
April 2013
51 posts
World's first GM babies born | Mail Online →
questionall:
The world’s first geneticallymodified humans have been created, it was revealed last night.
The disclosure that 30 healthy babies were born after a series of experiments in the United States provoked another furious debate about ethics.
So far, two of the babies have been tested and have been found to contain genes from three ‘parents’.
Fifteen of the children were born in the...
Will Genetically Engineered Glowing Plants Curb...
txchnologist:
by Lina Zeldovich
Trees that grow and glow may one day replace street lamps, cutting down on electricity use and CO2 emissions, according to a group of synthetic biologists. The biohackers at Singularity University in Moffett Field, Calif., plan to crossbreed a plant and bioluminescent bacteria. If successful, their result will be a fully viable herb that can emit light.
“We...
