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Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when they're done.

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Humans as a viral infection of earth. Some of you may have suspected that already. Let's hope it is an adolescent thingy that Earth will recover from soon, to live a long and prosperous further life. Let's hope humans are not completely eliminated by Earth's immune system, but live on in a healthier balance.

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see what one life will consume and accumulate...

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Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey's stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization

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Almost all of the records of our human experience - books, photographs, electronic data - will fade away, leaving little evidence that we ever existed.

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[This is truly inspiring, amazing, fascinating - a MUST WATCH]: Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke... she felt her brain functions slip away...

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Psychologist Dan Gilbert challenges the idea that we'll be miserable if we don't get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel real, enduring happiness, he says, even when things don't go as planned.

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...but rather I am going to reflect in amusement to the fact that very nearly everyone I know is, for this day, listening to the exact same thing. I find that to be a wondrous thing.

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When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere. It was 1926 and... he regularly walked six miles to his favourite fishing haunt without adult supervision... Mr Thomas's eight-year-old great-grandson Edward enjoys none of that freedom.

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...our bodies are littered with parts we don’t need. Some are vanishing leftovers from our prehominid ancestors, such as muscles useful for walking on all fours or hanging from trees that appear in various atrophied forms. Others are by-products of a na

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March 9, 2006 - Public Lecture Series
Alan Walker, Professor of Biological Anthropology, Penn State University: "The Human Body as an Evolutionary Patchwork"

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But genetic tests show both are "chimeras", and have some male cells - which have an X and Y chromosome, and female cells - which have two X chromosomes.

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...there are people now who claim that one book is sufficient... these are the same people who claim to be "spiritual". To me.. they are the ahistorical, unthinking ones who fail to offer the proper reverence due those who have gone before.

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So: although the human eye and brain when combined can resolve massive amounts of data, for imaging purposes, 150dpi output is more than enough to provide adequate data for us to accept the result as photographic quality.

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But all these statements bring up a good science question: What exactly does it mean to be human? Sure we're a 'piece' in the very large 'work' of the biological world, but what kind of 'piece' are we?

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