Science/Tech URLs

From: Jas A.I. (jasai@jasai.com)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 12:01:54 MST


The Prospects for Human Germline Engineering
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/co/2621/1.html

Pheromone-based fragrance manufacturers purport to have human chemistry all
figured out.
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/features/99/06/24/PHEREMONES.html

Given its origin in the work of the zoologist and evolutionary theorist
Richard Dawkins, the memetics literature has continued to exhibit a strong
flavor of evolutionary biology. Many of the problems with pursuing this line
of research therefore tended to arise from consideration of memes as
analogous to genes -- that is, as cultural replicators.
http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit/1999/vol3/cambridge_conference.html

Electronic transistors may one day be replaced by all-optical transistors,
which are in early stages of development at the Department of ORNL.
http://www.ornl.gov/Press_Releases/current/mr20000214-01.html

U.S. scientists have uncovered new information about a gene in yeast that
they think could one day be used to increase the lifespan of humans.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000216/sc/science_aging_1.html

What relevance does the remarkable advance in knowledge in genetics and
neuroscience over that period have to our understanding of child
psychopathology?
http://www.journals.cup.org/owa_dba/owa/login?PII_USED=TRUE&url=http%3A//www
.journals.cup.org/ows-bin/article%3Fspii%3DS0021963099005004

Xybernaut Corporation (Nasdaq: XYBR - news), the leader in wearable
computing solutions, today announced that it is developing a wearable PC to
run on hydrogen fuel cells in a joint development effort with DCH
Technology, Inc.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000217/va_xyberna_1.html

The Ghost in the Machine: The Concept of Self in Stanislaw Lem's Mortal
Engines
http://wtfaculty.wtamu.edu/~jrothfork/ghost.html

In the microcosm, the most outstanding example of an information system is
the double helix of DNA, the blueprint for organic life
http://www.theoldphilosopher.com/infoage.html

Challenge Me!
Jasmine
http://www.jasai.com/journal
I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of
time and place.
I believe it's something we have the power to change. I will tell you
hy. -- Kevin Warwick



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