Link dump: 2009.10.05

From the four corners of the web:

• For those who missed my appearance on FastForward Radio 2 week (MP3): http://bit.ly/x2W7L
  
• As the climate warms, conservationists might consider looking to the past to protect the future http://bit.ly/LVr7P
  
• Is Sociology Dead?
  
• Could a 1.8 Gigayear Technology Gap Exist? http://bit.ly/gqVNm
• Miscalibrated Minds: Why Don’t We Apply What We Know About Twins to Everybody Else? http://bit.ly/3dhpDc
• Stefano Vaj and the Complicated Politics of Italian Transhumanism http://bit.ly/12Qbfg
• Conference Brings Together Leaders in Body Computing http://bit.ly/GKmv8
• Canada 4th place in UN ranking: http://bit.ly/19xK9p
• U.S. scientists share Nobel Prize [implications to life extension] http://bit.ly/TcPKj
• Excluding Africa; Canada and the USA lead the world in premature births. It's unclear as to why. http://bit.ly/XYP7
• BBC: Half of babies born today 'will live to 100' http://bit.ly/CKUdS
• Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed) http://bit.ly/cka6U
• Artificial Heart Recipient Has No Pulse http://bit.ly/4cSkaZ
• Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype http://bit.ly/5JN45
• Report Says Iran Has Data to Make a Nuclear Bomb http://bit.ly/3DrVBv
• Microsoft Bing loses share in September - http://bit.ly/3FkGEL looks like Bing has peaked.
• Irish vote 'yes' for EU reform - http://bit.ly/AuVbe
• Economics of happiness http://bit.ly/XJ6Xv
• Bailey: Medical innovation boosts life expectancy, but doesn't cost more http://bit.ly/2t05QX
• Vigorous exercise is associated with reduced breast cancer risk http://bit.ly/7s4tC [note the word 'vigorous', people]
• Carrier: A New Concept for Wheelchair Design http://bit.ly/1O5LW
• Saying no to aging will require a bold gesture from each of us http://bit.ly/EnO2e
• 19th Century "color" motion picture http://bit.ly/3gq0iL
• NYT: Quest for a Long Life Gains Scientific Respect http://bit.ly/1EwTD5
• LRAD ’sonic cannon’ debuts in U.S. at G20 protests http://bit.ly/ygrll
• Perfect to a Fault: John Elder looks at the pursuit of perfection and the narrowing of what it means to be normal. http://bit.ly/vHdke
• Why Is Big Pharma Trying to Tell You How to Have Sex?: The medicalization of female desire: http://bit.ly/237E16
• Evolution... http://bit.ly/nt5s2
• Woman implanted with wrong embryo gives birth - http://bit.ly/7q1y5

Link dump: 2009.06.21

From the four corners of the web:

• Be careful what you wish for [Bioethics.net article featuring the Lifeboat Foundation's Tihamer Toth-Fejel] #nanotechnology
• Michael Moorcock doesn't care for transhumanist science fiction [The Early Days of a Better Nation]
• Why minds are not like computers [The New Atlantis]
• Healthy people should be able to take the anti-hyperactivity drug Ritalin to boost brain power [BBC]
  
• Does language shape the way we think? [Edge]
• Are we in control of our own decisions? Dan Ariely's TED Talk
• How to Make Decisions Outside Your Repertoire [Business Week]
• Peter Singer: Putting ethics before profits [GuardianUK]

Link dump 2009.05.10

From the four corners of the Web:

• Fukitorimushi: Autonomous floor-wiping robot
• Magic and the Brain: Teller reveals the neuroscience of illusion
• 8 awesome things you can implant into your body
• The Singularity comes to Denny's
• Laser-controlled humans closer to reality
• Read/write brain electrodes getting smaller and smarter
• Gene discovery may lead to new male contraceptive
• Virtual unreality