Month: September 2022

HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY. "Never before has any civilization had the unique opportunity to enhance human performance on the scale that we will face in the near future." https://lnkd.in/ebKCuCE View in LinkedIn

NBIC WILL TRANSFORM. "The convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science (NBIC) is creating a set of powerful tools that have the potential to significantly enhance human performance as well as transform society, science, economics, and human evolution." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1196/annals.1305.010/abstract?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage= View in LinkedIn

CONVERGENCE. "As the NBIC convergence becomes more understood, the possibility that we may be able to enhance human performance in the three domains of therapy, augmentation, and designed evolution will become anticipated and even expected." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1196/annals.1305.010/abstract?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage= View in LinkedIn

BIOENHANCEMENTS. "Interventions that are being investigated in the literature range from various types of psychopharmaceuticals, deep brain stimulation (DBS), and genetic selection and engineering." https://lnkd.in/ek6trfJ View in LinkedIn

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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE this weekend focuses on the great nutritional collapse of plants that tracks to the increase in atmospheric CO2, and is a little discussed fact of modern life, to put it mildly. This is about a shift in the carbohydrate ratio and of micronutrients. Is this just an issue of plant breeding, driven by a desire for speed and yield? This is an issue that affects rich and poor alike. View in LinkedIn

FRESH EYES. “Agenda 2020 The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the worse. And almost nobody is paying attention. Irakli Loladze is a mathematician by training, but…” https://lnkd.in/eq-SAGC View in LinkedIn

LIGHT MAKES PLANTS GROW. “Zooplankton are microscopic animals that float in the world’s oceans and lakes, and for food they rely on algae, which are essentially tiny plants. Scientists found that they could make algae grow faster by shining more light onto them—increasing the food supply for the zooplankton, which should have flourished.” https://lnkd.in/eq-SAGC View in LinkedIn

PARADOX OF ABUNDANT LIGHT. “But it didn’t work out that way. When the researchers shined more light on the algae, the algae grew faster, and the tiny animals had lots and lots to eat—but at a certain point they started struggling to survive. This was a paradox. More food should lead to more growth. How could more algae be a problem?” https://lnkd.in/eq-SAGC View in LinkedIn

JUNK LIGHT. “The increased light was making the algae grow faster, but they ended up containing fewer of the nutrients the zooplankton needed to thrive. By speeding up their growth, the researchers had essentially turned the algae into junk food. The zooplankton had plenty to eat, but their food was less nutritious, and so they were starving.” https://lnkd.in/eq-SAGC View in LinkedIn