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Exponential growth in ageing research
06-Dec-2023

Exponential growth in ageing research

How the observation and understanding of smaller and smaller biological units has improved ageing research and medicine

Have you had coronavirus? UK COVID-19 antibody tests from £65
04-Feb-2021

Have you had coronavirus? UK COVID-19 antibody tests from £65

Comparison of UK mail and clinic tests, plus a review of the Medichecks test

Types of coronavirus tests, and how accurate are they?
25-Jan-2021

Types of coronavirus tests, and how accurate are they?

Do you know the difference between sensitivity and specificity?

How To Boost Your Immune System
14-Jan-2021

How To Boost Your Immune System

Help your body to help yourself with these easy tips on improving your immune system

Summary of London Futurists’ Engineering Greater Human Resilience Panel Discussion
27-Apr-2020

Summary of London Futurists’ Engineering Greater Human Resilience Panel Discussion

Interesting thoughts from an international panel of futurists

Coronavirus Deaths UK Tracker
22-Apr-2020

Coronavirus Deaths UK Tracker

Tracking UK COVID-19 deaths to see when the peak is passed

How to track your temperature to spot coronavirus
14-Apr-2020

How to track your temperature to spot coronavirus

Fever is a key symptom of covid-19 – what is it, and how to spot its onset? Includes free Excel template to track and chart your temperature.

Coronavirus – 28 days later
11-Mar-2020

Coronavirus – 28 days later

After 28 days, halving or doubling your infectiousness makes a 60x difference

Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom - Book Review
12-Nov-2019

Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom - Book Review

Review of Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence on the risks of artificial intelligence

Homo Deus - review and quotes
29-Jul-2018

Homo Deus - review and quotes

The history of mankind and society - then looking to the future where dataism ousts the need for humans

Empire State of Mind (and Body)
24-May-2018

Empire State of Mind (and Body)

manipulation over the Opportunities opened up with human genetic engineering need to be regulated global to avoid exploitation

Inequality and Threat
19-Apr-2018

Inequality and Threat

A look at the risk of inequality between rich and poor being polarised to extreme

Longevity and coping with an ever increasing population
07-Jul-2015

Longevity and coping with an ever increasing population

Replace the defence budget with a space colonisation budget and everyone board can be shipped off planet

Doomsday virus - it could happen to us in the blink of an eye
04-Jun-2015

Doomsday virus - it could happen to us in the blink of an eye

Devastation of saiga antelope population is a good reminder of how quickly society could be wiped out

Kurzweil v Hawking - good AI v bad AI
04-Dec-2014

Kurzweil v Hawking - good AI v bad AI

Better to err on the side of caution when it comes to artificial intelligence development

A worrying mystery of Ebola infection
07-Oct-2014

A worrying mystery of Ebola infection

If Ebola mutates to become airborne things could get very serious, very quickly

Summary of living forever news from Ray Kurzweil 21-June-2013
23-Jun-2013

Summary of living forever news from Ray Kurzweil 21-June-2013

Restoring lost synapses, new cancer approach based on naked mole rat HMW-HA, and fruit fly lifespan increased by 24% with Rhodiola rosea

Survival chances improving daily
23-May-2013

Survival chances improving daily

We've got to survive natural disasters as well as age-related diseases

Middle aged? I'll give you a 10% chance of living forever
22-May-2013

Middle aged? I'll give you a 10% chance of living forever

If you make it to 120, you can then pretty much choose how long you want to live

Even better than exponential growth
15-May-2013

Even better than exponential growth

Adding more people to the knowledge economy will speed up the already exponential increase in human understanding

Automation improves chances of human survival
13-May-2013

Automation improves chances of human survival

Exponential growth in technology can save water, energy and humankind itself