Immortality Summit: Strategy for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS)

How to fight Aging

A general overview of SENS by Aubrey De Grey a Biomedical Gerontologist at Cambridge University

Immortality Summit: Cryogenics

Immortality Institute Summit Part 2

Bioinformatic Research on Artificial Intelligence

Bioinformatic work on Artificial Intelligence (AI) presented by Ben Goertzel  

Porn Documentary

 The Porn Report

     A somewhat obscure subject, Internet Porn Industries are covered at some length by Catherine Lumby at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Catherine's research gives an overview of how the industry started ,evolved, and current issues of contention it deals with.

Is it natural to genetically modify humans?

      Is it natural? well for the most part right wing christian  groups don't think so as one cane see in the Catholic church's stance on the genetic modification that isn't even human ; plants. However,  do we have a subconscious propensity to even though social constraints are present? Dr. Greggory from the UCLA argues so. He gives eloquent explanations as to why it would be in our natural interests to modify mundane points of contention like hypolipidemia or susceptibilities.

     I would argue that it is natural since it can be seen as an extension of technology, if technology preceeding GM  can be seen as an extension of ourselves to help us then why not genetic modification?

An Evolutionary Ethic? Darwin'sTheologians at work

      From UCTV a presentation at UC Santa Barbara by professor Richard Weikart . Ernst Heackel may have been on to something. I don't promote Nazism but, i do promote free thought. Since many science oriented people tend fall in accordance with the concept of natural selection it would be relevant in ethical discourse of what may be implied or derrived of  Natural Phenomena