The Prometheus League
Breaking News and Updates
- Abolition Of Work
- Ai
- Alt-right
- Alternative Medicine
- Antifa
- Artificial General Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Super Intelligence
- Ascension
- Astronomy
- Atheism
- Atheist
- Atlas Shrugged
- Automation
- Ayn Rand
- Bahamas
- Bankruptcy
- Basic Income Guarantee
- Big Tech
- Bitcoin
- Black Lives Matter
- Blackjack
- Boca Chica Texas
- Brexit
- Caribbean
- Casino
- Casino Affiliate
- Cbd Oil
- Censorship
- Cf
- Chess Engines
- Childfree
- Cloning
- Cloud Computing
- Conscious Evolution
- Corona Virus
- Cosmic Heaven
- Covid-19
- Cryonics
- Cryptocurrency
- Cyberpunk
- Darwinism
- Democrat
- Designer Babies
- DNA
- Donald Trump
- Eczema
- Elon Musk
- Entheogens
- Ethical Egoism
- Eugenic Concepts
- Eugenics
- Euthanasia
- Evolution
- Extropian
- Extropianism
- Extropy
- Fake News
- Federalism
- Federalist
- Fifth Amendment
- Fifth Amendment
- Financial Independence
- First Amendment
- Fiscal Freedom
- Food Supplements
- Fourth Amendment
- Fourth Amendment
- Free Speech
- Freedom
- Freedom of Speech
- Futurism
- Futurist
- Gambling
- Gene Medicine
- Genetic Engineering
- Genome
- Germ Warfare
- Golden Rule
- Government Oppression
- Hedonism
- High Seas
- History
- Hubble Telescope
- Human Genetic Engineering
- Human Genetics
- Human Immortality
- Human Longevity
- Illuminati
- Immortality
- Immortality Medicine
- Intentional Communities
- Jacinda Ardern
- Jitsi
- Jordan Peterson
- Las Vegas
- Liberal
- Libertarian
- Libertarianism
- Liberty
- Life Extension
- Macau
- Marie Byrd Land
- Mars
- Mars Colonization
- Mars Colony
- Memetics
- Micronations
- Mind Uploading
- Minerva Reefs
- Modern Satanism
- Moon Colonization
- Nanotech
- National Vanguard
- NATO
- Neo-eugenics
- Neurohacking
- Neurotechnology
- New Utopia
- New Zealand
- Nihilism
- Nootropics
- NSA
- Oceania
- Offshore
- Olympics
- Online Casino
- Online Gambling
- Pantheism
- Personal Empowerment
- Poker
- Political Correctness
- Politically Incorrect
- Polygamy
- Populism
- Post Human
- Post Humanism
- Posthuman
- Posthumanism
- Private Islands
- Progress
- Proud Boys
- Psoriasis
- Psychedelics
- Putin
- Quantum Computing
- Quantum Physics
- Rationalism
- Republican
- Resource Based Economy
- Robotics
- Rockall
- Ron Paul
- Roulette
- Russia
- Sealand
- Seasteading
- Second Amendment
- Second Amendment
- Seychelles
- Singularitarianism
- Singularity
- Socio-economic Collapse
- Space Exploration
- Space Station
- Space Travel
- Spacex
- Sports Betting
- Sportsbook
- Superintelligence
- Survivalism
- Talmud
- Technology
- Teilhard De Charden
- Terraforming Mars
- The Singularity
- Tms
- Tor Browser
- Trance
- Transhuman
- Transhuman News
- Transhumanism
- Transhumanist
- Transtopian
- Transtopianism
- Ukraine
- Uncategorized
- Vaping
- Victimless Crimes
- Virtual Reality
- Wage Slavery
- War On Drugs
- Waveland
- Ww3
- Yahoo
- Zeitgeist Movement
-
Prometheism
-
Forbidden Fruit
-
The Evolutionary Perspective
Category Archives: Transhuman News
Sci-fi comedy 'Space Station 76' launches a sendup of '70s design
Posted: September 25, 2014 at 11:45 am
Set on an intergalactic ship, the sci-fi comedy "Space Station 76" mixes elements of "The Jetsons" (chore-performing robots, meals that appear at the push of a button) with "Logan's Run" (molded, white plastic living spaces, windows with planetary views) and tosses in a bit of "The Brady Bunch" (wood-paneled walls, shag carpeting, the color brown) for good measure.
"We wanted our space station to be as much inspired by suburban homes of the '70s as it was by sci-fi movies and TV from the '70s," says director Jack Plotnick, who found his own childhood echoed in the sets.
"There's a microwave in the wall of one of the kitchens, just like my family had, and there are couch pillows with the same design as our couch had. And the jewelry box on one of the character's dressers turned out to be the spitting image of the one my mom had that gave me chills!"
"It's like 'Peyton Place' in outer space," offers production designer Seth Reed, who only had four weeks to prep the low-budget film and found inspiration in everything from midcentury architects like Pierre Koenig to the 1971 "The Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement" (a few sets are still available on Amazon).
"The thought was that the characters were given anonymous, empty white living capsules when they arrived on the ship, and then they were allowed to choose color schemes and furniture to suit their taste," Reed says. "The unhappy couple [Matt Bomer and Marisa Coughlan] have customized theirs with fake wood paneling and furniture in rusty reds and browns. There are ferns, a flokati rug and a fake electric fireplace."
Their lonely daughter's bedroom, while modular as well, looks like a lot of girls' bedrooms in the mid-'70s: flowered wallpaper and multiple framed pictures of horses all over the walls. "We were trying to embrace that particular '70s style, even amplifying it," Reed says. "We went for irony a lot!"
While the swirling super-graphic featured on the wall in the ship's recreation room and the patterned "tiles" in the captain's (Patrick Wilson) bathroom were painted by the production team, set decorator Kat Wilson sourced most of the movie's groovy furniture smoked acrylic chairs, chrome lighting fixtures, white plastic everything from industry rental houses. "I don't think most of the pieces were originals, merely inspired by designer pieces," she says.
As for what design element from the era most deserves a comeback, Plotnick doesn't hesitate. "Shag carpeting!" he declares. "What's more comforting than walking on shag carpeting? I think we got rid of it because it collects dust, but now that we really live in the future and have Roombas that can spend all day cleaning, please, can we bring them back?"
Read more:
Sci-fi comedy 'Space Station 76' launches a sendup of '70s design
Posted in Space Station
Comments Off on Sci-fi comedy 'Space Station 76' launches a sendup of '70s design
Astronauts Give Bill Clinton a Taste of Space Travel
Posted: at 11:45 am
NEW YORK Astronauts paid a virtual visit to former President Bill Clinton from the International Space Station on Wednesday (Sept. 24)to share their perspectives on Earth as it appears from their orbital home.
NASA astronaut Reid Wisemanand European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, part of the station's current Expedition 41 crew, beamed down by video to the Clinton Global Initiative, a gathering world leaders here aiming to develop solutions to major world problems. Joining Clinton on Earth was NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, who visited the station during its Expedition 26/27 mission.
The astronauts spoke of the unique perspective afforded by the International Space Stationan orbiting laboratory built through an international effort. They also showed off a few somersaults in zero gravity. [Watch Bill Clinton Talk Space with Astronauts (Video)]
"I want everyone to know what a unique and amazing place we have here [on the station]," Wiseman told Clinton and the conference audience.
Aboard the station, the astronauts are engaged in experiments on the effects of life in zero gravity. For example, the progressive bone disease osteoporosis proceeds 10 times faster in a typical astronaut in space than it does in a 70-year-old woman on Earth, Coleman said. By measuring the physiological changes that happen to astronauts, scientists can study the effects of aging in space.
The space station also provides a unique vantage point from which to view and appreciate Earth, the astronauts said.
"There are no words to describe that first glance when you look back on your planet," Wiseman said. Earth is a "beautiful living organism," he added.
With astronauts from United States, Russia, Brazil, Canada and Japan, as well as members of the European Space Agency, the space station is an exercise in global collaboration. When you're up in space, "it's hard to feel you're from any particular country," Coleman said.
As operators of the ISS, Wiseman and his colleagues have become good friends, he said. "We want to get the job done, and we want to have fun doing it," he said.
In response, Clinton joked that maybe the best way to get rid of the political gridlock in the U.S. Congress may be to send politicians to space.
See more here:
Astronauts Give Bill Clinton a Taste of Space Travel
Posted in Space Station
Comments Off on Astronauts Give Bill Clinton a Taste of Space Travel
Spike TV Partners with Vince Gerardis to Develop Original Scripted Series "Red Mars"
Posted: at 11:44 am
SPIKE TV PARTNERS WITH VINCE GERARDIS TO DEVELOP ORIGINAL SCRIPTED SERIES "RED MARS"
Series Based On Kim Stanley Robinson's International Best-Selling Mars Trilogy
New York, NY, September 24, 2014 - Spike TV and Vince Gerardis, Co-Executive Producer of HBO's "Game of Thrones," have partnered to develop an original scripted series to be based on Kim Stanley Robinson's expansive MARS TRILOGY, his series of novels about the colonization and transformation of Mars. A recipient of the prestigious Nebula and Hugo awards, Robinson's novels are widely regarded as the best books written on the subject, and a holy grail for science fiction fans.
The Spike series, "Red Mars," will focus on the core question at the heart of the novels - what is it to be human when we are no longer of earth? Are we not then Martians?
NASA has made going to Mars the organizing principal of all their programs. Several private corporations too are establishing footholds in the race to the red planet, as evident in daily news stories.
"This series shines a light onto many views of what it means to be human - and asks if can we sustain our humanity under incredible duress," said Sharon Levy, Executive Vice President, Original Series, Spike TV. "We are thrilled to partner with such an accomplished producer as Vince Gerardis to tell this incredible and thought-provoking story."
"There are many homes for large canvas television these days. It inspires me that Sharon has offered her network as home for this and provided a canvas for me to bring the world created in these books to the screen," said Gerardis.
In addition to "Game of Thrones," Gerardis' television resume includes Executive Producer on ABC's "FlashForward."
New York Times best-selling author Kim Stanley Robinson has previously served as member of The Mars Society and was noted by Time Magazine as "Hero of the Environment." He was an early advocate on key global initiatives including climate change and other environmental issues, is an honorary member of the Association of Mars Explorers. He will consult on the series.
Sharon Levy, Executive Vice President, Original Series, Spike TV, Ted Gold, Senior Vice President, Scripted Original Series, and Justin Lacob, Vice President, Original Series, will oversee the project.
View original post here:
Spike TV Partners with Vince Gerardis to Develop Original Scripted Series "Red Mars"
Posted in Mars Colonization
Comments Off on Spike TV Partners with Vince Gerardis to Develop Original Scripted Series "Red Mars"
What Is Genetic Engineering? | Union of Concerned Scientists
Posted: at 11:44 am
Genetic engineering is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including thetransfer of genes within and across species boundaries to produce improved or novel organisms. The techniques involve sophisticated manipulations of genetic material and other biologically important chemicals.
Genes are the chemical blueprints that determine an organism's traits. Moving genes from one organism to another transfers those traits. Through genetic engineering, organisms can be given targeted combinations of new genesand therefore new combinations of traitsthat do not occur in nature and, indeed, cannot be developed by natural means. Such an approach is different from classical plant and animal breeding, which operates through selection across many generations for traits of interest. Classical breeding operates on traits, only indirectly selecting genes, whereas biotechnology targets genes, attempting to influence traits. The potential of biotechnology is to rapidly accelerate the rate of progress and efficiency of breeding.
Novel organisms
Nature can produce organisms with new gene combinations through sexual reproduction. A brown cow bred to a yellow cow may produce a calf of a completely new color. But reproductive mechanisms limit the number of new combinations. Cows must breed with other cows (or very near relatives). A breeder who wants a purple cow would be able to breed toward one only if the necessary purple genes were available somewhere in a cow or a near relative to cows. A genetic engineer has no such restriction. If purple genes are available anywhere in naturein a sea urchin or an iristhose genes could be used in attempts to produce purple cows. This unprecedented ability to shuffle genes means that genetic engineers can concoct gene combinations that would never be found in nature.
New risks
Genetic engineering is therefore qualitatively different from existing breeding technologies. It is a set of technologies for altering the traits of living organisms by inserting genetic material that has been manipulated to extract it from its source and successfully insert it in functioning order in target organisms. Because of this, genetic engineering may one day lead to the routine addition of novel genes that have been wholly synthesized in the laboratory.
In addition to desired benefits, novel organisms may bring novel risks as well. These risks must be carefully assessed to make sure that all effectsboth desired and unintendedare benign. UCS advocates caution, examination of alternatives, and careful, contextual, case-by-case evaluation of genetic enginering applications within an overall framework that moves agricultural systems of food production toward sustainability.
Read more:
What Is Genetic Engineering? | Union of Concerned Scientists
Posted in Genetic Engineering
Comments Off on What Is Genetic Engineering? | Union of Concerned Scientists
Can genetic engineering help food crops better tolerate drought?
Posted: at 11:44 am
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE:
25-Sep-2014
Contact: Kathryn Ryan kryan@liebertpub.com 914-740-2100 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News @LiebertOnline
New Rochelle, NY, September 25, 2014The staggering growth rate of the global population demands innovative and sustainable solutions to increase food production by as much as 70-100% in the next few decades. In light of environmental changes, more drought-tolerant food crops are essential. The latest technological advances and future directions in regulating genes involved in stress tolerance in crops is presented in a Review article in OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, the peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the OMICS website.
Coauthors Roel Rabara and Paul Rushton, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Dallas, TX, and Prateek Tripathi, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, focus on the role of transcription factors, described as "master regulators" because they are important components of many genetic regulatory pathways and may be able to control clusters of genes. Drought tolerance is a complex trait that is regulated by multiple genes.
In the article "The Potential of Transcription Factor-Based Genetic Engineering in Improving Crop Tolerance to Drought," the authors describe current strategies for using transcription factors to improve drought tolerance and discuss how novel, advanced technologies will help study promising, genetically engineered food crops under field growing conditions.
"With limited water supply continuing to constrain food crop production, understanding and improving crop tolerance to drought is a grand challenge for 21st century biology and medicine, and to feed a massive world population," says OMICS Editor-in-Chief Vural zdemir, MD, PhD, DABCP, Gaziantep University, Faculty of Communications and Office of the President, Gaziantep, Turkey, and Co-Founder, the Data-Enabled Life Sciences Alliance International (DELSA Global), Seattle, WA. "Transcription factors are veritable candidates for innovation in the next generation of transgenic crops because of their natural role in plant growth and development. Field studies (not only greenhouse measures) will provide additional insights to measure their actual impact and innovation. This state of the art review article offers a timely analysis and topline summary distilled from the past several decades of leading literature."
###
About the Journal
OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology is an authoritative peer-reviewed journal published monthly online, which covers genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and multi-omics innovations. The Journal explores advances in the era of post-genomic biology and medicine and focuses on the integration of OMICS, data analyses and modeling, and applications of high-throughput approaches to study biological problems. Social, ethical, and public policy aspects of the large-scale biology and 21st century data-enabled sciences are also considered. Complete tables of content and a sample issue may be viewed on the OMICS website.
More:
Can genetic engineering help food crops better tolerate drought?
Posted in Genetic Engineering
Comments Off on Can genetic engineering help food crops better tolerate drought?
Heres to the geneticist who helped map the first breast cancer gene
Posted: at 11:44 am
Mary-Claire King has argued that all young women should be screened for the known breast-cancer risk mutations
You probably dont recognise the name Mary-Claire King, but Im willing to bet you know this extraordinary womans work. King, a professor at the University of Washington, did her PhD with Allan Wilson in evolutionary genetics, and together they were the first to show that human and chimp are about 99 per cent identical at the DNA level.
In 1974, King took the evolutionary genetics insights she had learned during her PhD and applied them to a different problem. She started searching for genetic determinants of breast cancer. Next month, October 2014, is the 20th anniversary of the mapping of the first breast cancer gene.
Forty years ago, the landscape of genetics research was markedly different from today. There was not yet a single human genetic disease mapped. It was nine years before the first one, responsible for Huntingtons Disease, was linked to a specific chromosome. There was no genome sequence to look up, not even an accurate idea of how many genes are in the human genome. Many scientists thought there were as many as 100,000 genes, but the true value is closer to a humbling 22,000.
Given these scientific challenges, the best approach available to King and her research team was to use a technique called linkage mapping.
This takes advantage of the fact that as chromosomes are passed from parent to child, getting scrambled through the generations, genes that are physically close neighbours on a chromosome are more likely to stay together, unscrambled. Using this genetic insight, characteristics in this case increased susceptibility to breast cancer can be tested for proximity to known landmarks in the genome based on patterns of co-inheritance.
This work is slow and painstaking and, for about 16 years, King and her relatively small research team were working on this alone. By 1990 they had narrowed down the location of a breast cancer gene (dubbed BRCA1 by King) to a comparatively small region on chromosome 17.
To give an impression of what they had done, it was as if the total length of the genome was the road from Galway to Sligo, and Kings research had narrowed down the search to Tuams main street.
At this point, the goal was in sight. Others decided to join the search in competition with King. This was dubbed the race by many commentators. More than 100 researchers were working full tilt in about a dozen labs around the world.
Originally posted here:
Heres to the geneticist who helped map the first breast cancer gene
Posted in Human Genetics
Comments Off on Heres to the geneticist who helped map the first breast cancer gene
Women outnumbered men throughout human history: Study
Posted: at 11:44 am
London, Sep 25 (IANS): In developments which could lead to books on human evolutionary history being rewritten, new DNA analysis has found that women outnumbered men throughout humanity.
Studying DNA samples of 623 males from 51 populations around the world, researchers took the DNA samples from each male and compared the paternally inherited Y chromosome (NRY) with mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), passed by mothers to their children.
The genetic findings offered evidence of polygyny - when one man has many wives, Live Science reported.
These practices resulted in females making a larger genetic contribution to the global population than males did, the study noted.
According to the findings, females migrated more than males did, spreading their female mitochondrial DNA far and wide and reducing genetic variability between populations.
Men stayed put which resulted in their sons having distinct genes in each population.
"For much of human history, a greater proportion of women in the population reproduced relative to men," explained lead researcher Mark Stoneking, a professor from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.
The paper appeared in the journal Investigative Genetics.
Stay updated wherever you go with Daijiworld.com and Daijiworld 24X7 tv channel mobile apps. CLICK HERE to download it for your device. (available on Android and IOS)
Read more from the original source:
Women outnumbered men throughout human history: Study
Posted in Human Genetics
Comments Off on Women outnumbered men throughout human history: Study
Symbolic Prophetic Dream: Great Tribulation DNA Change & WWIII – Video
Posted: at 11:43 am
Symbolic Prophetic Dream: Great Tribulation DNA Change WWIII
I had to remove the first minute of video due to this 15 minute time limit. It was my basic Intro, Discussing Free Will, thanking my Subscribers and some kin...
By: Minister Paul
Continue reading here:
Symbolic Prophetic Dream: Great Tribulation DNA Change & WWIII - Video
Posted in DNA
Comments Off on Symbolic Prophetic Dream: Great Tribulation DNA Change & WWIII – Video
DNA Welho – Miljoona Ruutua (EPIC Remix) – Video
Posted: at 11:43 am
DNA Welho - Miljoona Ruutua (EPIC Remix)
Ts on nyt tmmnen remixi tll kertaa. Sori huonost nenlaadust, mut ket kiinnostaa :~D SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/1lZfLFu Twitter: http://bit.ly/11oC5Ze Steam: http://bit.ly/14l87K2...
By: Huttuwerge
Read more here:
DNA Welho - Miljoona Ruutua (EPIC Remix) - Video
Posted in DNA
Comments Off on DNA Welho – Miljoona Ruutua (EPIC Remix) – Video
@twitter DRAGS Mathew Knowles after DNA test proves he fathered Taqoya 4yr old daughter – Video
Posted: at 11:43 am
@twitter DRAGS Mathew Knowles after DNA test proves he fathered Taqoya 4yr old daughter
donate here~https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations business=SHHCWHNNFJQ48 lc=US item_name=lovelyti currency_code=USD bn=PP Mathew Knowles You a...
By: lovelyti2002
See original here:
@twitter DRAGS Mathew Knowles after DNA test proves he fathered Taqoya 4yr old daughter - Video
Posted in DNA
Comments Off on @twitter DRAGS Mathew Knowles after DNA test proves he fathered Taqoya 4yr old daughter – Video
