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A Studly Fish

I love trout... but now, the delicious fish is becoming just dreamy... with six-pack abs!
 

Jake Sully riding a Mountain Banshee / aka Ikran (20th Century Fox)

How often do you get a movie review from Ray Kurzweil?  In our interview with Ray a few months back, I asked him about his impression of science fiction films and TV shows.

Molecules

Selfish or altruistic? Where does it all start? Which side are you on, boy (girl, other)? Stand back, Mr. Dawkins?

Trapping Sunlight with Silicon Nanowires Photo: physorg.com

On Monday, I got my vertiginous dose of hope from Science Daily. Today, KurzweilAI is responsible.

Water Molecules. Photo credit: Rockefeller University

Some days, all you need is to scan of Science Digest to realize that things will soon be awesome (or maybe they like hyperbolic headlines even more than I do).

David Bowie. Photo: Mick Rock

I've ranted about Michael Jackson as a transhumanist, but in the case of David Bowie, I don't even need to make the case, do I?

olive oil

Where would Italian cuisine be without olive oil? Well, now there's some talk of releasing "programmed" fat globules similar to olive oil into the water. Why? To form limestone reefs and save Venice, of course.

Image Courtesy of: technologyreview.com

Ooh don't touch me there...

KurzweilAI reports on how "artificial skin will use quantum tunneling... QTC robot skin could let a robot know precisely where it has been touched, and with how much pressure."

Image Courtesy of: ianmonroe.com

h+ contributor and longtime pal o' mine Ian Monroe has created a book and --- "At long last! Science and Religion Finally Reconciled!

Obama admin is not hostile to space exploration

With the media emphasizing reports on the Obama Administrations decision not to return astronauts to the moon, low attention types might assume that they are hostile to space exploration. An opinion piece in today's SF Chronicle presents a different view.