Exponential growth in ageing research
How the observation and understanding of smaller and smaller biological units has improved ageing research and medicine
Survival Blog Posts
06-Dec-2023
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
25-Jan-2021
Types of coronavirus tests, and how accurate are they?
Do you know the difference between sensitivity and specificity?
27-Apr-2020
Summary of London Futurists’ Engineering Greater Human Resilience Panel Discussion
Interesting thoughts from an international panel of futurists
22-Apr-2020
Coronavirus Deaths UK Tracker
Tracking UK COVID-19 deaths to see when the peak is passed
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.
11-Mar-2020
Coronavirus – 28 days later
After 28 days, halving or doubling your infectiousness makes a 60x difference
12-Nov-2019
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom - Book Review
Review of Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence on the risks of artificial intelligence
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
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
19-Apr-2018
Inequality and Threat
A look at the risk of inequality between rich and poor being polarised to extreme
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
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
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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
07-Oct-2014
A worrying mystery of Ebola infection
If Ebola mutates to become airborne things could get very serious, very quickly
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
23-May-2013
Survival chances improving daily
We've got to survive natural disasters as well as age-related diseases
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
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
13-May-2013
Automation improves chances of human survival
Exponential growth in technology can save water, energy and humankind itself
