Published in April 28th, 2009
I am on the board of H+ and we are currently looking for a new ED. If you’re interested in science, technology, and its impact on human beings, this would be a good position for you. More details can be found here.
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Published in April 23rd, 2009
Here’s an interesting story at CNN on why Andorrans live longer than anyone else in the world. It’s basically what you’d expect: exercise, low stress, lots of friends, healthy food. The piece didn’t mention the elevation, but anyone who has been there knows it is incredibly high in the mountains (and they grow [...]
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Published in April 17th, 2009
This is an interesting piece in the Economist about the upcoming personalized medicine revolution. Some people are skeptical that medicine really will be personalized, so Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School has come up with a term that means “customization”, perhaps sort of like how Dell or other retail outlets might customize products. [...]
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Published in April 17th, 2009
I’m currently working on the environmental chapter of my book, which is reflected here in my bi-weekly column. It’s amazing how much potential is waiting to be released on the clean(er) energy front. Here are the first few lines from my piece:
“Earth Day is fast approaching, yet despite the awareness this day brings, [...]
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Published in April 14th, 2009
My colleague Jim Harper over at the Technology Liberation Front discusses the RealAge.com controversy and why the current petition to Oprah is a better way of dealing with the issue than running to the FTC for privacy help. In March, a NYT article exposed how website RealAge.com sells the data it gathers to pharma companies. [...]
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Published in April 14th, 2009
This is yet another success story from the fertility sector. The interesting thing is that when the man froze his sperm, the technique used for creating his baby had not yet been invented. His faith that one day it might has now paid off for him as he now has a beautiful baby [...]
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Published in April 13th, 2009
There are two stories in the headlines today that both look poised to cut health costs. First, is the announcement of a technique to see if someone has cancer just by testing his or her blood. This new research comes out of Stanford University and was published in the Journal Nature Medicine. [...]
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Published in April 10th, 2009
This new movie based on Ray Kurzweil’s work opens in NYC April 28th. Really looking forward to seeing it!
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Published in April 9th, 2009
From NewScientist:
“SPERM should be subject to the same product liability laws as car brakes, according to a US judge who has given a teenager with severe learning disabilities the go-ahead to sue the sperm bank that provided her with a biological father.
Brittany Donovan, now 13 years old, was born with fragile X syndrome, a genetic [...]
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Published in April 6th, 2009
The NYT reports today that “A new DNA test for the virus that causes cervical cancer does so much better than current methods that some gynecologists hope it will eventually replace the Pap smear in wealthy countries and cruder tests in poor ones.” The study was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [...]
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Published in April 3rd, 2009
This is one more step on the way towards strong AI. From the FT:
“A laboratory robot called Adam has been hailed as the first machine in history to have discovered new scientific knowledge independently of its human creators.
Adam formed a hypothesis on the genetics of bakers’ yeast and carried out experiments to test its [...]
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Published in April 3rd, 2009
This week, a federal judge blocked a prosecutor from filing child pornography charges against three teenage girls in northeastern Pennsylvania over risque cell phone pictures they took of themselves. This respite from the bizarre “sexting” scandal allows time for a national dialogue on an issue that goes deeper than simple changes in technology.
“Sexting” is short [...]
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Published in April 2nd, 2009
From the New Scientist:
“Yeast cells feeding on the glucose in human blood might one day power implants such as pacemakers. A living source of power that is able to regenerate itself would eliminate the need for regular operations to replace batteries.”
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Published in April 1st, 2009
Most men I know think they don’t have an “expiry date” when it comes to having children, but the evidence is starting to point out that they do. Given that most of the research in turning back biological clocks is focused on women’s bodies, perhaps one day it will be women of any age [...]
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