Global Catastrophic Risks
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 Posted in Futurism, Risks | No Comments »Two non-profit organizations that advocate for the ethical use of highly powerful emerging technologies participated in an afternoon conference in Mountain View on November 14. Those orgs were the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and the Center for Respondible ...
Dr. Cui’s Cancer-Resistant Mice
Monday, December 1st, 2008 Posted in SENS | No Comments »Since posting the video of Zheng Cui's presentation from Aging 08, I have received emails asking why the website for the clinical trial has been taken down. As best I understand, the trial is currently on hold due to concerns ...
Help Chris Heward of Kronos Laboratory fight cancer
Friday, November 7th, 2008 Posted in SENS | No Comments »John Schloendorn, who is doing scientific research on the LysoSENS project for the Methuselah Foundation, asks you to support Chris Heward’s fight against his Stage IV esophageal cancer. Chris is president of Kronos Science Laboratory and presented talks on longevity ...
Understanding Aging videos
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in SENS | No Comments »Videos from the 2008 Understanding Aging conference that I was responsible for editing for the Methuselah Foundation, a non-profit organization whose stated purpose is contributing to the elimination of age-related illnesses, have been online for some time. Only recently have ...
Aging: The Videos, The Photos, The Transcriptions
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in SENS | No Comments »Videos from the Methuselah Foundation's free life extension symposium at UCLA are now available online. Titled "Aging: The Disease, The Cure, The Implications," the event aimed at putting the postponement of human aging more firmly on the political and social map. ...
ArrrGI-08
Saturday, May 24th, 2008 Posted in AGI-08 | No Comments »Media from AGI-08, much of which I was involved in archiving, is now being exchanged on The Pirate Bay. The torrent includes the 51 papers, 25 of the videos in mp4 format and two of the transcripts from Future ...
Fickr Set: AGI-08
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in AGI-08 | No Comments »Videos of all the presentations from AGI-08 are now available online and can be accessed via the pages for the conference and workshop schedules. As was mentioned in a previous blog post, there will also be coverage of the ...
AGI-08
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in AGI-08 | No Comments »In March an artificial intelligence company called Novamente invited me to film the AGI-08 Conference taking place in Memphis, Tennessee. This was my first experience being hired to place media of a futurist-oriented event online. AGI stands for ...
Cryonics
Friday, October 27th, 2006 Posted in Cryonics | No Comments »Cryonics is a medical procedure aimed at preserving the bodies of terminal patients until such time as advanced medical procedures can provide for their resuscitation. To revive a patient in a state of cryopreservation would require not only curing ...