@VernorVinge - Not his best, but alien aliens and lots of good conceptual stuff.
Vernor Vinge - The Children of the Sky
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
A.G.C.T.X.Y. DNA goes from 4 to 6 letters.
DNA goes from 4 to 6 letters. Can synthesize new proteins. Wow!
#syntheticlife #futuretech #scifact #originoflife
Friday, 6 November 2015
Crows Know Death
While the idea of a Crow funeral is unnerving, I'm impressed how much performance they get out of their tiny brains.
Favorite quote: ‘I don’t care what you say, I’m calling the police.’ 
#death #consciousness
Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Schrödingers Germ
It's all just atoms in the end but this does feel like a milestone.
“Although it has attracted enormous interest, no quantum superposition state of an organism has been realized."
Sunday, 11 October 2015
Thursday, 10 September 2015
Odious Debt
"Radical proposals such as these bear in common a recognition that money, like property and debt, is a sociopolitical construct. It is a social agreement mediated by symbols: numbers on slips of paper, bits in computers. It is not an immutable feature of reality to which we can but adapt. The agreements that we call money and debt can be changed. To do so, however, will require a movement that contests the immutability of the current system and explores alternatives to it."
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