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Since the pubication of our October 26, 2009 article "ACLU v. The Gene Patents," we’ve been watching the case in which the ACLU and the Public Patents Office, among many others, took legal action against Myriad Genetics for patenting certain genes.

A hope for a (r)evolution in cognitive control and ability is part of the NBIC paradigm that motivated the creation of h+ magazine

First there was the big bang and then there was… the stuff just created in a lab in Geneva yesterday.

Mirth as medicine was first prescribed in the 14th century when Henri de Mondeville — the “Father of French surgery” — asked hospital visitors to give joie de vivre to his patients via jokes.

The memristor — the so-called “missing link of electronics” memory technology that can change its resistance in varying levels — has been around on paper for nearly 40 years.

When I tell people I study transhumanism I get three responses: “What?” “Wow!” and “Is that like posthumanism?”

In 1960, South Korea was poorer than two-thirds of the nations in sub-Saharan Africa. Today it’s the world’s most digital nation, with a per capita income of nearly $28,000, higher than New Zealand ($27K) or Portugal ($22K).

Last month, h+ covered the work of Professor Byron Reeves, who champions the adaptation of gaming technologies for the workplace.

All you Texans, come on out to Trinity University in San Antonio on Monday March 29, 2010. I’ll be speaking about "Hijack The Singularity or The Future Must Be Post Scarcity or Not At All" as part of their Reality Hackers series (which has also featured Annalee Newitz).

The MIT news office reports that MIT scientists "have now found that a single protein, known as Arc, appears to control neurons’ ability to strengthen and weaken their synapses by regulating the number of neurotransmitter receptors on their surfaces."