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Brain DNA

When the sequence of the human genome was declared essentially complete in 2003, all biologists (except perhaps Craig Venter) heaved a sigh of gladness that the data were all on one website, publicly available, well-annotated and carefully cross-linked.

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Richard Kaufman

Let’s start by petting (or shooting) the elephant in the room. All the snarksters will assume that I’m interviewing Dr. Richard Clark Kaufman on nutraceuticals because his NEURVANA company is an h+ advertiser. Not true. My corruption is entirely based on the free schwag!

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"Swarm-bots" near a laboratory in Brussels, Belgium. Photo courtesy of National Geographic.

Like Christmas tree ornaments rolling around a pool table, the brightly colored little bots were allowed to explore their surroundings.

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Transgender, Transhuman, Transbeman

If anyone is going to persuade us to abandon the flesh, be downloaded, and live forever as information, it is Martine Rothblatt.

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The Psychedelic Transhumanists. Courtesy of Leary - Philip H Bailey, McKenna - Courtesy of   Erowid, Mark Pesce - Mark Pesce, Eric Davis - Andy Miah - Background photo by Paul Downey

Transhumanism in a fortune cookie: the familiar human world is just one point along a continuum of evolution, and we have an unprecedented capacity to participate in that process.

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Illustration by Joe Watson

Did you enjoy reading your little transnerdulist magazine about pleasure, prancing and sustained orgasm? Now you expect a little humor, don’t you? Well, guess what? I’m not in the mood.

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Neurons

"Four shots in my Americano, please. I’ve got a presentation due tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. and I haven’t started it yet. I’ll probably be up all night.”

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Jason Silva, Hplus Magazine

If you watch 27-year-old Jason Silva on Current TV -- the Emmy-winning youth-oriented cable network co-founded by Al Gore -- you’d never guess that he’s a first-rate transhumanist thinker, skeptic, and passionate advocate of science in overcoming the biological limitations of being human.

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Einstein lookalike, E=MC2

Einstein’s ability to chase a light beam in “thought experiments” led to the equations of General Relativity.

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Cognition Distributed - Itiel E. Dror and Steven Harnad

Over the course of a decade, entire schools of science can come in and out of fashion, just like gadgets or buzzwords.

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