Category: Geek
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Dr. Aubrey de Grey in Israel
Dr. Aubrey de Grey (Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey to be exact, age 50) came to Israel for the first time to take part in the 8th European Congress of Biogerontology (fallback link) organized this year by Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Utopia, the Tel-Aviv International Festival for Science Fiction, Imagination and the Future, organized an…
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Neither is Ice Cream
“Nobody thought it was a good idea. And I distinctly remember my colleague Evan Williams saying, ‘Well, neither is ice cream. Should we ban ice cream and all joy or can we have something that’s just fun? What’s wrong with that?’” – Biz Stone, co-founder and Creative Director of Twitter (via)
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Divine
To iterate is human; to recurse divine. – L. Peter Deutsch, the creator of Ghostscript Check out The Recursive Group on Facebook while you’re at it (a group for people who are members of the group).
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TED MED: How will nanobots change medicine?
“One word of notice before we begin, all the the technologies you’re going to see here, now, are real…” [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5KLTonB3Pg&w=540&h=304] Nano-robots that fix tissues and control drugs have been envisioned for over 30 years. Now, using DNA origami and molecular programming, they are reality. These nanobots can seek and kill cancer cells, mimic social…
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#BlackCat
Google+ automatically combined several stills of Footer into an animated GIF, and to top it off, automatically tagged it with #BlackCat.
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OculusStreetView
I still haven’t had a chance to really enjoy the Oculus Rift so far, simply due to lack of time. I’ve heard a lot of games already have support for it (can’t wait to try Half-Life 2). However, the coolest thing I’ve experienced with the Rift so far is a hack developed by Luca Siciliano…
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The Oculus Rift has arrived!
Between Aug 1 – Sep 1, 2012, 9,522 people (including me) backed the Oculus Rift Kickstarter project, raising $2,437,429 — 975% of the $250,000 goal. After seven months and #33 project update emails, a surprise package arrived in the mail today!
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Space-station Oddity
Moments like these make me believe maybe there’s still a chance for humanity after all. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo?rel=0&w=540&h=304] A revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.
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Three eras of currency
Three eras of currency: Commodity based, e.g. Gold Politically based, e.g. Dollar Math based, e.g. Bitcoin – Chris Dixon, investor at Andreessen Horowitz (source: cdixon’s tumblr)