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The Lab Meta Thread - What's our trajectory now?
A thread to discuss want we want from the Lab and offer constructive criticism. Also for people who would like to post more to make themselves known.
:: STARTED BY Lurid Archive
:: 69 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:19 06.06.07
Transhuman Technologies.
A thread to discuss the development, applications, and social ramifications of technologies and science with regards to transhumanism. Keywords: Transhuman, cybernetics, downloading conciousness, human enhancement, body modification, genetic engineering, bioethics.
:: STARTED BY Evil Scientist
:: 83 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:58 29.05.07
A World Without Fossil Fuels
How would it work?
:: STARTED BY Saveloy
:: 63 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:52 26.05.07
DESIGN: Wind-Powered Buildings
Huge-scale turbines integrated into office-building design. Beautiful and visionary, or a lot of hot air?
:: STARTED BY Jack Fear
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:35 23.05.07
Ongoing world record attempt in longest time staying awake
Tony Wright's ongoing attempt at beating the world record for voluntary sleeplessness in a pub in Cornwall, UK. With added semi-fringey science nuggets. Could also serve as a general discussion on the science of sleep and sleeplessness.
:: STARTED BY Closed for Business Time
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:15 15.05.07
Putting Magnets on Your Head Does Funny Things.
An article about putting magnets on your head.
File under transcranial magnetic stimulation, electricity, therapy, creativity, brain, neurology, thinking cap, savant.
:: STARTED BY iconoplast
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:28 14.05.07
Over-dreaming and depression
Over-dreaming and depression - linked or completely independant?
:: STARTED BY telyn
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:46 13.05.07
Bees Vanish, and Scientists Race for Reasons
NYT article on the alarming collapse of bee colonies.
:: STARTED BY SMS
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:49 12.05.07
What is OCD
Discussion of obsessive compulsive disorder
:: STARTED BY Peach Pie
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:15 09.05.07
Antidepressants + Neuroplasticity = Nootropic?
Beyond neurotransmitters: Desire for information on new studies regarding anti-depressants.
:: STARTED BY Stigma Enigma
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:46 03.05.07
Neurofeedback & Music
Deep relaxation neurofeedback... hooking students up to brainwave machines... is found to improve musical skill. I wonder when the schools will catch on....
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 05:35 02.05.07
Language may shape human thought
More evidence for the relationship between language and intellectual development.
:: STARTED BY Mirror
:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 05:55 30.04.07
Male contraception
New and old ways of preventing impregnation and/or sexually transmitted diseases.
:: STARTED BY Closed for Business Time
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:51 24.04.07
Superman fans = poor at altruism.
So much for truth, justice and the American way -- fans of the Big Boy Scout aren't very prepared to help people out themselves.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:59 24.04.07
Sociobiology
Sociobiology says: "blacks are intellectually inferior to whites and hence morally so also; women are naturally weak, over-emotional, subservient and not particularly bright; men are naturally dominant, clever, ambitious and push society forward". Or stuff to this effect. Discuss.
:: STARTED BY The Sinister Haiku Bureau
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:43 23.04.07
"Mind" Medication
Poppin pills to cure social ills
:: STARTED BY Stigma Enigma
:: 14 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:32 22.04.07
Fear altering parasites
How does Cat urine affect your daily life?...well...it can..
:: STARTED BY otto628
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:07 18.04.07
Citizendium
The world needs a better free encyclopedia. Help create it.
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:35 16.04.07
Creative Xmod- "Makes your mp3s sound better than CDs"
DSP witchery or false advertising?
:: STARTED BY RichT's boring old name
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:02 13.04.07
Fashion! Turn to the left!
Evolutional ideas for the future of human kind and how much effect does a miniscule fashion trend have on this?
:: STARTED BY Benny the Ball
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:51 13.04.07
Animal Intelligence
Cats, Dogs, basically pets... Are they as stupid as we think...?
:: STARTED BY ADe
:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:43 11.04.07
A common biological basis for male homosexuality and male-to-female transsexuality?
Birth-order and sibling studies indicate common findings for male homosexuals and male-to-female transsexuals. If a common biological mechanism underpins both conditions, what are the implications?
:: STARTED BY Ganesh
:: 26 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:10 09.04.07
Plasma Converter
A machine that can, apparently, turn almost any kind of waste matter into free energy. Is this sci-fi made reality, or something far too good to be true? And, er, how does the science behind it actually work?
:: STARTED BY Hydra vs Leviathan
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:52 08.04.07
Diet and behavior
How the food you eat could be affecting the way you behave -- and how junk food could be linked to aggressive behavior (or behaviour), and how fish oil could fix it.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:54 06.04.07
Teaching as a scientific path
A discussion of teaching and similar paths, as well as possible alternatives.
:: STARTED BY Lama glama
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:05 06.04.07
Brave new Filesharing
For a long time, Copyright law has terrorised the filesharing community. Now, in the 21st century, a handful of OS programmers resist the invading Copyright Empire by building tools of intraceable invincibility!
But is anonymous filesharing a good idea anyway? Is virtual absolute freedom of data equivalent to giving child molesters a safe platform?
:: STARTED BY el d.
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:39 02.04.07
Earth Hour
Unplug it or switch it off for an hour.
Just an hour.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:51 31.03.07
Solar Storm 2012
NASA says new "solar max" is due on a significant date.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:43 23.03.07
Society-wide health controls vrs the individual.
A thread to explore views on the ethics of controlling inherited illness.
:: STARTED BY Evil Scientist
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:43 23.03.07
Life-like systems
Apparently some people are beginning to treat life as a phase of life-like complex systems. What are your opinions? Discussions welcome!
:: STARTED BY locusSolus
:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:09 16.03.07
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