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Wednesday November 7, 2012 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines Are you elderly and having memory or concentration problems? Researchers create laser the size of a virus particle VISTA gigapixel mosaic of the central parts of the Milky Way Political posts Latest News Are you elderly and having memory or concentration problems? November 7, 2012   They might be caused by common medications used to treat insomnia, anxiety, itching or allergies, according to Dr. Cara Tannenbaum, Research Chair at the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (IUGM, Montreal Geriatric University Institute) and Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacy at the University of Montreal (UdeM). Up to 90 percent of people over the … more… Researchers create laser the size of a virus particle November 7, 2012   A Northwestern University research team has found a way to manufacture single laser devices that are the size of the smallest virus (about 20 nm.) and operate at room temperature. These plasmonic nanolasers could be readily integrated into silicon-based photonic devices, all-optical circuits, and nanoscale biosensors. Reducing the size of photonic (such as lasers) and … more… VISTA gigapixel mosaic of the central parts of the Milky Way November 7, 2012   This striking view of the central parts of the Milky Way was obtained with the VISTA survey telescope at the European Southern Observatory (ESO)’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. This huge picture is 108,500 by 81,500 pixels — nearly nine billion pixels. It was created by combining thousands of individual images from VISTA, taken through three … more… Political posts November 6, 2012 Last evening, I posted a video and a blog item related to the U.S. economy and election, meant to stimulate a one-time discussion on a subject that is normally off-topic on KurzweilAI. Some readers found them offensive or irrelevant to the science/technology focus of KurzweilAI. I have now removed them, with apologies to anyone who … more… New EVENTS   Book tour for Ray Kurzweil’s How to Create a Mind Dates: Nov 15 – Dec 6, 2012 Location: multicity U.S. tour more... New VIDEOS   Prized Science — Robert Langer: a founding father of tissue engineering and controlled drug release   Oakley Airwave goggles   The Verge | Google Now and the future of predictive search New books Homo Evolutis (Kindle Single) (TED Books) author Juan Enriquez   There have been at least 25 prototype humans. We are but one more model, and there is no evidence evolution has stopped. So unless you think Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern are the be all and end all of creation, and it just does not get any better, then one has to ask what is … more… As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth author Juan Enriquez   If you think the world has changed dramatically in the last five years, you haven’t seen anything yet. You will never look at the world in the same way after reading As the Future Catches You. Juan Enriquez puts you face to face with unprecedented political, ethical, economic, and financial issues, dramatically demonstrating the cascading impact … more… Latest Kurzweil Collection posts How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed   Source: Publishers Weekly — October 22, 2012 Bringing together contemporary theories and research in cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence, Kurzweil (The Singularity Is Near) provides insight into how the human brain functions, while speculating on the possibilities and philosophical implications of creating a nonbiological mind. Underlying this analysis is the Pattern Recognition Theory of Mind, a process in the neocortex, the seat … more… Read full article here How to Create a Mind   Source: Kirkus Reviews — September 15, 2012 A pioneering developer of optical character recognition and text-to-speech software explores the possibility of creating a synthetic neocortex that could surpass the human mind. Kurzweil (The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, 2005, etc.) bases his prediction on modern insights into how the brain has evolved a hierarchical pattern-recognition structure. We perceive the bare … more… Read full article here Five things we learned at Ray Kurzweil’s immortality lecture   Source: The Grid — October 24, 2012 | Jesse Ship Smug, nerdy, and in full I-told-ya-so form, inventor Ray Kurzweil expounded to an audience of hipsters, futurists, and mad scientists at the Danforth Music Hall last Thursday night. Kurzweil talked about the future of artificial intelligence and a few topics from his upcoming book, How to Create a Mind. Some of the highlights included: » What … more… Read full article here Technology reaches a critical point   Source: The State Press — October 29, 2012 | Caleb Varoga According to Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near, the singularity is “an era in which our intelligence will become increasingly non-biological and trillions of times more powerful than it is today — the dawning of a new civilization that will enable us to transcend our biological limitations and amplify our creativity.” Kurzweil describes singularity as … more… Read full article here Why I voted for Ray Kurzweil for president   Source: Sam Snyder Blog — November 6, 2012 | Sam Snyder Kurzweil represents the best aspects of America: entrepreneurship, invention, scientific research, helping others, and sharing knowledge. Kurzweil makes predictions and then assesses the accuracy of those predictions. He has an accuracy rate which far surpasses other predictors. He incorporates new scientific evidence to change his worldview, as he did between his books The 10% Solution for a Healthy … more… Read full article here Visit KurzweilAI.net You are currently subscribed to the KurzweilAI.net newsletter as *|EMAIL|* To unsubscribe, please click here. To change your email preferences, please click here. *|LIST:ADDRESS|*.