I've just been reading The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell, and in his explanation of Dunbar's "Rule of 150" he invokes some research of Daniel Wegner, at...
I plan on attending the next Future salon, but I don't get out much, so I'm going to be needing assistance. • 7-9pm, 3rd Friday of the month, correct? •...
... I didn't expect to find so many fuzzy edges around the topic of compound beings, but it's full of them. And i haven't even mentioned telepathy and myth...
We can literally feel the pain of strangers, study finds http://members.aol.com/newssciencepage/050125_empathy.htm Jan. 25, 2005 Special to World Science In...
Nature Publication Reports Key Links Between Mechanisms of Aging and Metabolic Disorders CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 5 /PRNewswire/ -- During the last decade ...
... University of Kansas social psychologist Dan Batson, claim empathy leads directly to altruism, others dispute this. It depends on how to define altruism....
... [...] ... Actually, you would want at least one more group among the photographs: friends of no kin relation (i.e., "kith"). Ideally you would also divide...
... Not true of adoptees and biological families. Of which there are ample amounts in america. ... makes sense but after hanging out with extended family...
Hi Futurists, Weblog post: http://www.futuresalon.org/2005/07/fab_future_on_i.html Finally the fabulous April Future Salon video with Neil Gershenfeld is...
Creationism special: A battle for science's soul 09 July 2005 NewScientist.com news service Debora MacKenzie ON 10 July 1925, a drama was played out in a small...
http://www.pbs.org/previews/gunsgermssteel/ 10 pm on each Monday from July 11~25 ... "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did...
Hi Futurists, Weblog post: http://www.futuresalon.org/2005/07/squid_labs_at_e.html Lots of great things happening this week in the Bay Area like tomorrow...
Update: Kennita reminded me that Cubberley Center has many buildings [map] and I remember running around there and no one knew where the event was. It is in...
Hi Futurists, Weblog post: http://www.futuresalon.org/2005/07/software_radio_.html Future of Radio? You may ask, what can there be new in a pretty straight...
I find this very exciting -- I think it's only a matter of time before people start experimenting with implants that do more than the biological retina, and/or...
Hi Futurists, New RSVP link for the Future Salon next Friday: http://tinyurl.com/8q7qp Sorry for the wrong one last time. You may want to also check out Esther...
Hi Futurists, Weblog post: http://www.futuresalon.org/2005/07/rsvp_now_for_ra.html Reminder there is a great Future Salon coming up this Friday the 22nd of...
Hi Futurists, (Sorry if you get this message twice. forgot to mark it as special notice the first time). Happy Saturday afternoon. There is also an interesting...
(I know there's a ride-sharing board <http://www.socialtext.net/futuresalon/index.cgi?ride_sharing_anyone>, but my sense is many people don't read it.) Anyone...
(I was in Sri Lanka and met many of the NP people there - they are doing great work. --John Abbe) Creating a Nonviolent Peaceforce: Current Work and Future ...
BSP == Blatant Self Promotion I created a neuroscience RSS feed. Just point your RSS reader at: http://www.waynerad.com/neuroscience/rss.xml Why RSS? Ever...
Uh, the Salon is Friday, not Thursday. Just want to correct that before anybody complains about us having it on a Thursday again. It's *not* on Thursday this...
Hi Futurists, Weblog post with links: http://www.futuresalon.org/2005/07/gilder_at_alway.html I'm at the AlwaysOn Summit. George Gilder interrupted his book ...
Bay Area Transhumanists will be having its second meeting, in Gordon Biersch <see http://www.gordonbiersch.com/restaurants/san_francisco.html for description>,...
Hi Futurists, Weblog post: http://www.futuresalon.org/2005/07/smart_radio_fut.html Reading my last post Spot Draves who once presented his Electric Sheep at...
This month's Future Salon on Software Radio; it's all here - <http://www.socialtext.net/futuresalon/index.cgi?software_radio> Life, John -- Consciousness is...
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