The crew of Shenzhou 10.
In June, the successful landing of China’s latest manned space mission cast a spotlight on the country’s growing human spaceflight skills as it hones the capabilities needed to build a huge, permanently crewed space station.
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Circa
There has been a lot of talk in media circles about how the “story” needs to be disrupted, so that news can be rendered in a way that makes more sense for a real-time, digital and mobile age — but so far all we have is more listicles and slideshows, or streams of headlines that mimic a wire service. About the only company that is really trying hard to disrupt the idea of a news story from the inside out is Circa, the news startup co-founded (and funded) by Cheezburger founder Ben Huh, and it is doing so by thinking about news the way programmers think about code, or scientists think about atoms. (Video)
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Three-person IVF could eliminate debilitating and potentially fatal mitochondrial diseases that are passed on from mother to child.
The UK is set to become the first country to allow the creation of babies using DNA from three people, after the government backed the IVF technique.
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Bitcoin
It has been a roller coaster ride for Bitcoin over the past few months. Bitcoin rose in value from $33 at the end of February (then an all-time high) to a peak of nearly $266 on April 10, followed by the crash of as much as 70 percent.
Continue reading… “Are we looking at a Bitcoin revolution?”
National Security Agency headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland.
New York Times: The revelations that telecom carriers have been secretly giving the National Security Agency information about Americans’ phone calls, and that the N.S.A. has been capturing e-mail and other private communications from Internet companies as part of a secret program called Prism, have not enraged most Americans. Lulled, perhaps, by the Obama administration’s claims that these “modest encroachments on privacy” were approved by Congress and by federal judges, public opinion quickly migrated from shock to “meh.”
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Will high-speed tube travel become a reality? A cutting edge company known as ET3 believes the application of magnetic levitation high-speed tube travel will introduce society to an all new era of trade and tourism.
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The overlap between fashion and technology is growing. A recent example comes from fashion designer Ying Gao, who made two dresses that glow and wiggle around when someone glances at them. Yes, the pair of “gaze-activated” dresses love to have an audience.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: A thousand years from now, what is it that the human race will need to have accomplished?
Yes, I realize that this is a huge question and many of you reading this are living paycheck-to-paycheck worrying about who’s going to win the big game this weekend. But if we don’t begin to frame our role of humanity inside a much bigger picture, we are likely to remain in sputter-mode until we eventually do.
Continue reading… “In Search of Humanity’s Prime Directive”
GrowUp’s Kickstarter-funded aquaponic farm is a circular ecosystem with 150 fish, all self-contained in a box.
At the Marlborough Playground in London this summer you’ll see a modified, upcycled shipping container with a greenhouse on top–dubbed the GrowUpBox. It is producing both fresh vegetables and fresh fish, all in one compact set-up.
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Minimalist running
President-elect John F. Kennedy lamented the state of the nation’s fitness in an article under his byline for Sports Illustrated in December 1960, “The Soft American.” As president he exhorted citizens to plunge into activities like 50-mile hikes.
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Obesity has been classified as a disease in the U.S.
The American Medical Association, last week, voted to classify obesity as a disease. But is being fat the same thing as being sick? The decision came at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association (AMA).
Continue reading… “Should obesity be classified as a disease?”
Smart ingestibles
People on the cutting edge are swallowing ingestible smart pills containing minuscule sensors and transmitters to monitor a range of health data and wirelessly share this information with a doctor, according to the New York Times.
Continue reading… “Smart ingestible pills that monitor your health and replace passwords”