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Video: ASAPScience Asks, “What Will We Be Like In 1000 Years?”

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Highlights, Video

Video: ASAPScience Asks, “What Will We Be Like In 1000 Years?”


The Future Of Humanity. What Will Life Look Like For All Of Us In 1000 Years?:
In this video, ASAPScience speculates about what we’ll be like in another 1,000 years.

And their roundup of the predictions seems nothing if not interesting.

Intro) 3 Examples:
Over the past 10,000, 150, and 65 years, we’ve become tolerant of milk, grown 10cm taller & lived 20 years longer. All due to science in farming, healthcare & diet.

 
So: What else could happen going forward? You know, besides Google Glass…

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The New Phrenology: Aging-Speed And Quality Of Life, IN YO FACE! -Literally.

Filed Under: Aging, Bio-Tech, Disease, Nutrition

The New Phrenology: Aging-Speed And Quality Of Life, IN YO FACE! -Literally.
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-Except this time, it just might work.

Everyone’s done this type of amateur Sherlock Holmes evaluation since they were born. But now, at the intersection of a facial-recognition technologist, a doctor, and Big Data, the studies might just prove both true and useful.

What Face My Age’s technology does…

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Open Your App & Say Aaaah: Apple ResearchKit Turns You Into An Awesomely Freelance Digital Lab Rat

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Disease, Gadgets, Video

Open Your App & Say Aaaah: Apple ResearchKit Turns You Into An Awesomely Freelance Digital Lab Rat


As if HealthKit weren’t good enough already, Apple is making a move that looks pretty darn selfless, using its weight to do some potentially-massive public good.

It arrives in the form of a new app-development framework, called ResearchKit and it’s aimed at getting researchers & docs closer to their goals through more & better data.

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Video: ASAPScience’s Take On The Benefits Of Meditation

Filed Under: Aging, Disease, Mind/Brain, Video

Video: ASAPScience’s Take On The Benefits Of Meditation


In this video, ASAPScience goes over some of the interesting and profound ways that meditation can affect your health.

Among the things they cover are empathy, learning, physical changes to the brain & stress.

And although it’s worth a watch, they did not go quite into the depth of the posts here and here,…

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Fill Out This Form, Plato. -Or Project Baseline Wants To Find Truth, Beauty In The Ideal DNA Paradigm

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Disease

Fill Out This Form, Plato. -Or Project Baseline Wants To Find Truth, Beauty In The Ideal DNA Paradigm
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So clearly, The Goog is just jealous of code genius, Brittany Wenger’s Neural Networks.

And to that end, they are creating another “Moonshot” project out of their X-Division, similar to “Calico”

This one is set to be something like the Charles Darwin of the human genome. -But to an end.

Maybe one day, there will be a more blown-out version of NatGeo’s Geno 2.0 targeted at health, but right now Google wants to map the paradigm of the ideal healthy person’s genome in a project they’re calling “Baseline”…

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IDEO Encourages DesignOn Concept Contributors To Tackle Old People

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech, Gadgets

IDEO Encourages DesignOn Concept Contributors To Tackle Old People
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(figuratively)
I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to check out the full list of lifehack-style products & service innovations over at design-juggernaut IDEO,

-But By Far, my favorite of the bunch is the Snow White Evil Queen/Ghost of Christmas Yet-To-Come -style Aging Mirror.

 
I don’t know how far out they wanted to take the concept in its proposed future technological reach.

-But [at least in its most-blown-out-future-form] this could take a whole host of…

Links:
The Gray Mirror
at:IDEO-DesignOn:Aging

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Doc Finds Aging Marker, Invents Drug To Flip-Script, -Pinky And The Brain Throw Truly Epic Fiesta

Filed Under: Aging, Disease, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

Doc Finds Aging Marker, Invents Drug To Flip-Script, -Pinky And The Brain Throw Truly Epic Fiesta
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After 25 years of research about similar subjects especially in the cardiovascular arena and a little protein marker of aging we’ll name later, Dr. Douglas Vaughan and a team from Tohoku University in Japan have come up with a pretty interesting drug.

It’s not as “Dude, I know Kung-Fu”-Cool as The Mousechurian Candidate.

-But it Does prolong the life of mice almost 4x.

 
Ok, ok, now before we all start getting all crazy…

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Wired DATA | Life Conference Intros The Big Data And Analytics Wave To Health

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Featured, Highlights, Video

Wired DATA | Life Conference Intros The Big Data And Analytics Wave To Health
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Wired DATA | Life Presents The AI+ML+Big Data Future Of Health & Medicine:
After MD Anderson’s 41 Cancer-Fighting Foods, I was reminded of one more thing:

Back in November, there was a health conference that both MDACC & Wired put on called Wired DATA | Life.

It was a small invitation-only shindig, mostly for people really into the health space, like doctors and biotech entrepreneurs; so it didn’t really get a lot of press coverage.

Nevertheless, for those of you interested in the subject, -ESPECIALLY- its intersection with “Big Data”, some of the segments are really not bad.

So below, there is a list…

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