Kristin Scott

Could nanoworms prove to be the cure for cancer? Here’s an interesting article from UC San Diego’s News Center that suggests that we may be heading in that direction.
Excerpt: “Their discovery, detailed in this week’s issue of the journal Advanced Materials, is reminiscent of the 1966 science fiction movie, the Fantastic Voyage, [...]

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I’ve been aware and vaguely familiar with the terms posthumanism and transhumanism, but have not yet had an opportunity to explore either in any depth. From what I gather so far (and I admit to being a newbie to both concepts), becoming transhuman seems to be a necessary first step to becoming posthuman. The prefixes [...]

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I have a former student, Paul Sernatinger, that sends me very cool links every now and then, and he recently sent me some really interesting ones. I was particularly struck by how researchers at Osaka University, in Japan, for example are in the process of developing robotic body parts that will be controlled by thoughts [...]

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