Here's a reminder about an opportunity to learn a lot and engage in discussion about the issue of really big and dangerous risks... Global Catastrophic Risks Conference July 17-20, Oxford, UK In July, the Future of Humanity Institute will play...
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SNOWFALL In the late 1980s, there was a dramatic step-like drop in the amount of snow falling in the Swiss Alps. Since then, snowfall has never recovered, and in some years the amount that fell was 60 per cent lower...
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Not Necessarily Relevant Quote of the Week: In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. ? Eric Hoffer
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Apropos to the "Aging 2008" special event notice we posted earlier today, you might be interested in reading a new article on "Engineering an End to Aging" by Michael Anissimov, a member of CRN's Global Task Force. Here is how...
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Here is an update on where I will be traveling and speaking over the next few months... June 17-19: International Conference on Nanotechnology, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Next month, I'll make a presentation on "Responsible Nanotechnology" in Saudi Arabia as part...
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What, in your opinion, are the most likely impacts of global warming and climate change? How bad will things get, and how soon? What options might we have to prevent or at least mitigate the damages? We want to know...
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Why not do it all? Why not start erecting wind farms wherever they make sense? Why not go forward immediately with projects to tap energy from the tides, from the waves, and perhaps even from deep geothermal sources? Why not...
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Cyclone Nargis flooded the entire coastal plain of southern Burma. The satellite picture on top was taken before the storm hit. The one on the bottom was taken Monday. The appalling disaster suffered by the citizens of Burma (Myanmar) raises...
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(Illustration by Bruce Conway, Lightwatcher Publishing) In a column posted at Salon.com, Elizabeth Svoboda contends that: "Global warming demands more than do-gooder actions. It demands 'geoengineering' -- like blocking the sun's rays with stratospheric dirt." This is a provocative and...
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From the cover story of New Scientist magazine's April 5 issue: Doomsday scenarios typically feature a knockout blow: a massive asteroid, all-out nuclear war or a catastrophic pandemic. Yet there is another chilling possibility: what if the very nature of...
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