Also on Slashdot today is this story about the discovery of a gene that kills cells. It could be used to kill cancer or potentially keep patients alive forever.
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Check out this conceptual art piece/protest at Salon.
According to the New Scientist a researcher has located an island matching Plato’s description of Atlantis. This is a pretty cool story amongst the rest of the grim stories in the news right now. Link.
Path Finder, the world’s first robotic brain surgeon has begun clinical trials at Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham, UK. It won’t be able to do operations that are not already possible, but will be able to do them faster and more accurately. Link.
A group of cognitive scientists known as “Laugh Lab” are searching for the World’s Funniest Joke. What’s your favorite joke?
The latest “Apocamon” story is out on E-Sheep.
Both NASA and Russia are working on space tourism programs. Yay!
It seems Burning Man is no longer the autonomous zone it once was. This year homoerotic art was banned by local authorities, and many people were cited for drugs and other crimes. (link via Random Walks).
Stephen Hawking warns that in order to compete with AI, people will have to resort to genetic engineering (link via Meta Filter).
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