Tag: prejudice
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Being cool…
People from the past showing what “classy” means. (1) We like to believe we are better than the older ones. We like to believe we progress. We like to believe things are getting better with time. But better is not something given to younger people by default. Better is something you gain. Better is something…
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Reverse evolution. Strange as Evolution…
The saga of the Osedax “bone-eating” worms began 12 years ago, with the first discovery of these deep-sea creatures that feast on the bones of dead animals. The Osedax story grew even stranger when researchers found that the large female worms contained harems of tiny dwarf males. Examining bone worms collected at 700 meters (2,296…
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Non thinking brain.
What would Stuart Little make of it? Mice have been created whose brains are half human. As a result, the animals are smarter than their siblings. The idea is not to mimic fiction, but to advance our understanding of human brain diseases by studying them in whole mouse brains rather than in dishes. The altered…
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Self-programming software. Self-blinded humans.
DeepMind Technologies, a London-based artificial-intelligence firm acquired by Google this year, has revealed that it is designing computers that combine the way ordinary computers work with the way the human brain works. They call this hybrid device a Neural Turing Machine. The hope is it won’t need programmers, and will instead program itself. (1) We…
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Staying alive. Afraid to die. Accepting death. The story of our life…
Life and death… A drug used to treat advanced breast cancer has had what appears to be unprecedented success in prolonging lives in a clinical trial, researchers reported. Patients who received the drug — Perjeta, from the Swiss drug maker Roche — had a median survival time nearly 16 months longer than those in the…
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