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Jose Cordeiro: The Future of Energy and the Energy of the Future

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hanson_(robotics_designer) "Albert Hubo" a robot created by Hanson and the KAIST Hubo group David Franklin Hanson, Jr is an American robotics designer and researcher , responsible for the creation of a series of realistic humanoid robots. [ 1 ] [ edit ] Biography

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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/hey_wait_a_minute/2000/10/jungle_fever.html To read a reponse to this article from the editors of The New Yorker , click here . Lately I've been engrossed in—and in some sense involved in—the most sensational scandal to emerge from academia in decades.

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John Tooby is an American anthropologist , who, together with psychologist wife Leda Cosmides , helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Tooby received his Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Harvard University in 1989 and is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tooby
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Regeneration - the ability to recreate lost or damaged cells, tissues, organs or even limbs - has a limited capacity in mammals.

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Ellen Heber-Katz is professor at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia .

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http://www.phillymag.com/articles/lance_becker_back_from_the_dead/ Photography by Trevor Dixon LANCE BECKER’S CELL phone rang at two in the morning. “Lance!”

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Ramez Naam is the author of More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement MAPS , the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, is a non-profit research and education organization.

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Ramez Naam helped develop two of the most widely used pieces of software in the world: Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook. Since 2002 he has served as a member of the advisory board of the Nano Business Alliance, and is a member of the World Future Society, The Extropy Institute, and the World Transhumanist Association. Naam has spoken at dozens of conferences on biotechnology.

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Ramez Naam is a professional technologist . He was involved in the development of widely-used software products such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook . His last role at Microsoft was as a Partner Group Program Manager in Search Relevance for Live Search .

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I’ve noticed that Singularity discussions seem to be splitting up into three major schools of thought: Accelerating Change, the Event Horizon, and the Intelligence Explosion. Accelerating Change: Core claim: Our intuitions about change are linear; we expect roughly as much change as has occurred in the past over our own lifetimes. But technological change feeds on itself, and therefore accelerates. Change today is faster than it was 500 years ago, which in turn is faster than it was 5000 years ago. Our recent past is not a reliable guide to how much change we should expect in the future. Strong claim: Technological change follows smooth curves, typically exponential.