Source Edge transcript from soundcloud listen via link at the end L.A. Paul Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Author, The Transformative Experience THE TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCE My name is Laurie Paul, and I'm...
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Uploading human brain for eternal life is possible – Cambridge neuroscientist
via RT Question More People could “live inside a machine” by turning their brain into a program code once a computer capable of recreating some 100 trillion connections is built, a popular Cambridge neuroscientist said at a UK mass event this weekend....
Read moreDay 9: No Meaningful Outcome From Paris
Source the real news Tuesday was the eighth day of the international climate talks in Paris, COP 21, said to be the most important negotiations in the UN's 20 years of conferencing on climate change. Or, as Desmond Tutu puts it, humanity's last chance...
Read moreIs Consciousness The Bridge Between Science & Religion?
by Peter Russell Source CE Science and religion often seem poles apart–and in many ways they are. But I believe the two can, and will eventually be, united; and their meeting point will be human consciousness. That we are conscious beings is the most...
Read moreDark Matter and the Astounding Interconnectedness of Everything
Lisa Randall via onbeing “Our world is rich,” Lisa Randall has written, “so rich that two of the most important questions particle physicists ask are: Why this richness? How is all the matter that I see related?” As one of the most influential theoretical...
Read moreGet A Little Awestruck: The Biological Advantage Of Being Enchanted
via Finerminds This powerful 3-minute video discusses how awe was biologically selected by evolution to help us survive, thrive and continue to adapt. Based on the ideas of psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, and his study The Biological Advantage Of Being...
Read moreUri Alon: Why truly innovative science demands a leap into the unknown
via TEDx While studying for his PhD in physics, Uri Alon thought he was a failure because all his research paths led to dead ends. But, with the help of improv theater, he came to realize that there could be joy in getting lost. A call for scientists...
Read moreGoogle Ventures: Not Every Product Needs to Be Beautiful
by John Zeratsky This article was originally published at Wired. If you’re a technology entrepreneur or CEO trying to figure out what kind of investment to make in design, you might be tempted to focus on visual design: beautiful products, a sophisticated...
Read moreYou can grow new brain cells. Here´s how. TED
Can we, as adults, grow new nerve cells? There's still some confusion about that question, as this is a fairly new field of research. For example, I was talking to one of my colleagues, Robert, who is an oncologist, and he was telling me, "Sandrine, this...
Read moreWant to innovate? Become a "now-ist"
via TED Joi Ito is the director of the MIT Media Lab. “Remember before the internet?” asks Joi Ito. “Remember when people used to try to predict the future?” In this engaging talk, the head of the MIT Media Lab skips the future predictions and instead...
Read moreNotorious Climate Skeptic Rupert Murdoch Just Bought National Geographic
By Xeni Jardin / boingboing.net via Films for Action The National Geographic magazine has been a nonprofit publication since inception in 1888, but that ends today. The long-running American publication becomes very much for-profit under a $725 million...
Read moreGood to know: refugee crisis + The European Refugee Crisis and Syria Explained
We put two interesting clips about the topic refugee crisis together: First: Migration over the last 2600 year- This animation distils hundreds of years of culture into just five minutes. A team of historians and scientists wanted to map cultural mobility,...
Read more#MOOC s?_ 7 Things You Should Know About MOOCs II
A MOOC is a model of educational delivery that is, to varying degrees, massive, open, online, and a course. Most MOOCs are structured similar to traditional online higher education courses in which students watch lectures, read assigned material, participate...
Read moreeco hacking the future_POC21 INNOVATION CAMP
via POC21 POC21 is an innovation camp to prototype the fossil free, zero waste society. 100+ makers, designers, engineers, scientists and geeks will join forces for five immersive weeks in a stunning french castle. Their ultimate goal: Overcome our destructive...
Read moreLooking for More Meaning in Your life? Then Be a Part of This Movement. Be a Part of This Story.
It's happening. A movement of movements representing millions of people in every country of the world, all working to create an ecologically sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet. ABOUT THE MOVIE: This is a unique...
Read moreWhy Truth is Always New
by Christina Sarich via Collective Evolution Blog What creates a mind that can see things anew? Not the stale, crusty, crumbs of ‘truth’ that have mold around the edges, causing us to see reality in a fractured, disintegrating, purely entropic way, but...
Read moreDr. John Hagelin - Hacking Consciousness at Stanford University
John Hagelin Phd (Harvard-trained, renowned quantum physicist) Hacking consciousness investigates the nature of consciousness as a field of all possibilities, as the source not only of the human mind and our ability to experience, know, innovate and create,...
Read morePlans unveiled for recycled plastic roads in the Netherlands
July 15th, 2015 by Lara Lopes via Interesting Engineering Paving streets and roads with asphalt can – in a not so distant future – become a thing of the past. The alternative? Recycled plastic. And the Netherlands could be the first country to use this...
Read moreMIT invented The Copenhagen Wheel
The Copenhagen Wheel turns the bike you already own, quickly and easily into an electric bike with regeneration and real-time environmental sensing capabilities. The wheel harvests the energy you input while braking and cycling and stores it for when...
Read moreBiocentrism / Robert Lanza’s Theory of Everything
by Robert Lanza with Bob Berman Every now and then, a simple yet radical idea shakes the very foundations of knowledge. The startling discovery that the world was not flat challenged and ultimately changed the way people perceived themselves and their...
Read moreThe True Meeting of Science and Spirituality (SAND)
From the website SCIENCE & NONDUALITY Science and Nonduality provides a forum where preeminent scientist, philosophers, teachers, artists and a large, international community gather to explore and advance the new paradigm emerging in spirituality, that...
Read moreOAS1S “treescrapers” are modern skyscrapers inspired by trees
by oas1s,via Inhabitat OAS1S has introduced a unique concept for the future of urban green living: a 21st century home that merges architecture and nature into one. The OAS1S houses are inspired by trees that act as modern skyscrapers. These “treescrapers”...
Read moreDoes Consciousness need a Brain? - Evidence for Reincarnation
(Charles) Bruce Greyson (born October 1946) is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. He is co-author of Irreducible Mind (2007) and co-editor of The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences (2009). Greyson...
Read moreNASA Astronaut: “These Concepts Have Been Proven In Hundreds Of Laboratories Around The World”
Dr. Brian O’Leary, Ph.D, scientist, author, Princeton/Cornell physics professor, and former NASA astronaut, was filmed shortly before his passing stating that over-unity devices are indeed real, and that “these concepts have been proven in hundreds of...
Read moreThe sound of a single atom
viaTHE SOUNDS OF SCIENCE with Bernie Hobbs It sounds like a pinball machine heard through a couple of tin cans and a bit of string, but that is actually the pinging noise of individual ions (charged phosphorous atoms) being fired into a silicon chip....
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