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Fifty years after the Apollo 11 lunar landing proved that America could meet President John F. Kennedy’s challenge and beat Russia in the space race, man is walking on the moon once again. This time inside a Lunar Dome at the Rose Bowl.

“Apollo 11 — The Immersive Live Show,” which is in previews and officially opens Wednesday, promises a multimedia spectacle under a gigantic $5-million dome designed to tell a big story in a big way: with live actors, documentary footage, archival audio, 360-degree video projection and props that will simulate a rocket launch and include a life-size re-creation of the lunar landing module. Yes, the one with funny foil hanging around it.

The project is the brainchild of British producer Nick Grace, veteran of international tours of the musical “Mamma Mia!” and Blue Man Group. (Grace’s production is also at the center of an L.A. Times Ideas Exchange program on July 20.)

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“If you rearrange the atoms in coal, you get diamond. If you rearrange the atoms in sand, you get silicon. How atoms are arranged is fundamental to all material aspects of life,” says Ralph Merkle, currently senior research chair at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing. He’s a large, pear-shaped man who, as he speaks, waves his arms far more energetically than his physique would imply. He modulates his tone dramatically for effect, often humorous.

Those words kick off day 2 at the Singularity University Executive Program. The curriculum divides roughly into three days of intensive classroom introductions to critical tech domains, three days of visits to Silicon Valley companies, and two days of workshops devoted to specific industries, plus a final day to wrap up. On Saturday I settled gingerly into a lightly padded metal chair for highly compressed, sometimes super technical, up-to-the-minute overviews of artificial intelligence, robotics, networking, computing, and quantum computing. (Forecast: sunny! With patchy clouds and fog.) That took until dinner time with only a quick break for lunch, which was filled with presentations by graduates of SU’s nine-week summer program.

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The three-hour event was part marketing spectacle and part dry technical explainer. Musk and his team members described the brain-machine interface design they’re betting on, which will employ dozens of thin wires to collect signals in the brain, and which they want to try out on paralyzed people soon, so they can type with their minds. Their eventual aim is to connect those wires to a thought transmitter which tucks behind your ear like a hearing aid.

Well, it’s pretty cool. It seemed like maybe it will work the way they want down the road, but it probably doesn’t work that way now. A couple of years ago, when I heard he was working with a neural interface, I said I would be there in a heartbeat. I was joking, but it’s interesting to think about what I am going to do when I get explanted. I am coming up on my five years. Then the FDA says my implants may have to come out. Neuralink talked about longevity of the implant and also a large number of electrodes. I always say I wish they had put more electrodes into me.

Basically, the more electrodes you have, the more neurons you record from, so I would imagine higher-degree tasks would be easier. I am limited to thinking about my right arm and hand. I thought it would be good to have more control. I always want to play more video games.

I was going to school at Penn State, Fayette, for nanofabrication, so I didn’t have a job, I was in school.

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My mission is to drastically improve your life by helping you break bad habits, build and keep new healthy habits to make you the best version of yourself. I read the books and do all the research and share my findings with you!

This video is an interview of Dr. Aubrey de Grey @ SENS on July 17, 2019. My wife, Lauren Nally, was our camerawoman.

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0:55 Type “Aubrey de Grey” into YouTube for lots of his lectures & interviews.
1:50 Update on the state of the anti-aging industry & explosion of private sector interest.
5:05 Intro for Aubrey
5:35 My May 30, 2019 interview with Sierra Sciences CEO Dr. Bill Andrews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx9yG6iTROQ
6:25 diversity of messaging in anti-aging is increasing.
7:10 My July 10, 2019 interview with BioViva CEO Liz Parrish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBFTwGPaPr4
8:28 Aubrey shares his updated thoughts on the role of telomerase in cancer in humans.
12:00 Liz had here telomeres tested by SpectraCell Laboratories: https://www.spectracell.com/clinicians/products/telomere-testing/ & LifeLength: https://lifelength.com/
14:10 there has recently been more testing on humans in the field of the biology of aging.
15:44 It’s obvious to Aubrey & I that aging is a big problem but most people still don’t understand this.
18:40 profound difference between how scientists & technologists think.
22:11 Watch the documentary “The Immortalists” about Dr. Aubrey de Grey & Dr. Bill Andrews: https://www.theimmortalists.com/watch/?
22:58 updates on anti-aging investments & research projects.
30:01 stem cell therapy is intended to repair cell loss.
30:50: we have a massive funding problem to reverse human aging.
32:53 we must educate the public that aging is causing 100,000 deaths per day and funding biological age reversal research can change this.
36:52 Is human aging a disease?
44:10 FDA progress to treat age-related diseases/conditions.
47:38 World Health Organization ICD code progress to treat age-related diseases/conditions.
50:02 Trans-NIH Geroscience Interest Group (GSIG)
54:40 “triangular log jam” of funding with governments, scientists and public opinion.
56:30 Aubrey shares why SENS still exists.
1:00:38 Ethereum cryptocurrency founder Vitalik Buterin & other SENS donors.
1:01:55 Undoing Aging is a conference held every spring in Berlin, Germany.
1:04:53 July 2019 is Aubrey’s 2-year anniversary at AgeX as the VP of New Technology Discovery.
1:08:44 Jeff Bezos donated $100 million to Unity Biotechnology, Inc. (not Human Longevity Inc.) in 2018.
1:11:02 (Larry) Ellison Medical Foundation failure in reversing human aging.
1:14:15 Google co-founders creating Calico rather than investing in or donating to SENS
1:21: Aubrey shares details about his lifestyle as well as his recommendations for a healthy lifestyle.
1:24:25 Aubrey looks up to the longevity “foot soldiers“
1:28:42 do what you love as much as you can to avoid excess mental, physical and emotional stress.
1:30:40 Aubrey is following all longevity therapies to determine their safety & effectiveness.
1:32:20 my stem cells story & Aubrey’s feedback.
1:34:58 EmCell in Kyiv, Ukraine is the only company doing fetal stem cells therapy.
1:39:20 exosomes
1:41:00 I’ve had no reply from Ambrosia founder Jesse Karmazin since October 2018.
1:42:51 My March 26, 2019 interview with Dr. Ed Park at Recharge Biomedical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHgfYKsH0uw&list=UUCwpkla04tVxHJUds2J2aqA&index=6
1:44:31 NAD+
1:47:39 gene therapy
1:53:37 please network on the internet & in person with other longevity enthusiasts to help grow this movement faster.
1:58:48 mitochondria
2:00:48 long lived animals
2:01:49 consider a donation to SENS

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The modern biographical story of Stanislaw Burzynski, MD, PhD who discovered an innovative patent-protected cancer therapy currently enrolled in FDA clinical trials. This story sheds light on the current regulatory and industry roadblocks preventing these life-saving medications from reaching the market as of 2016.

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From “Burzynski: The Cancer Cure Cover-Up”

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Amazon is a global leader in the use of artificial intelligence and robots – but first on “CBS This Morning,” the company is revealing a major plan to invest in its human workforce, too. The online giant will spend more than $700 million to provide 100,000 employees with new skills for the digital age by 2025.

At Amazon’s 125,000 square foot facility just outside Denver, it looks like robots are running the show. But behind each of these roughly 800 devices is a skilled employee like Nicole Bayer, who manages the daily flow of traffic at this center as a floor control specialist. Bayer said more robots means higher package volume. As a result, she said, “we need more associates to package our volume, not less.”

Before coming to Amazon a few years ago, Bayer said she’d been out of the workforce for years. She credited the company’s employee programs for relaunching her career. “I got a lot of technical skills out of it that helped me get promoted,” she said.

Jeff Wilke, Amazon’s worldwide consumer CEO, likened the program to grad school. The programs’ names feel collegiate, from “Machine Learning University” for onsite training, to “Amazon Technical Academy” for software engineer roles. The company is also offering programs like Associate2Tech, which trains employees to move into technical roles, and AWS Training and Certification, which teaches employees about the cloud and gives them knowledge “essential to operating in a technical field.”

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The environment contains electromagnetic radiation and magnetic fields of natural and artificial origin. Even a short electromagnetic pulse is enough to knock any equipment out of operation. Candidate of Sciences (Physics and Mathematics) Aleksey Trukhanov, senior research fellow at the SUSU Nanotechnologies Research and Education Center, is studying electrolytic films to develop electromagnetic and magnetic shields capable of neutralizing this radiation.

“The issue of electromagnetic compatibility of devices is very topical today. One of the most popular methods of equipment protection used around the world is shielding—creating electromagnetic and magnetic shields. But every developer has his own design approaches and secrets, which he naturally wouldn’t share. Suffice it to say that the cost of products with and without protective shielding may differ tenfold and more,” says Trukhanov.

Normally, heavy elements are used as the material for shielding, as they efficiently absorb high-energy radiation. Bismuth is a heavy metal with high density and high number of shell electrons. This makes it analogous to such widely used materials as lead. However, in the ratio of the protection efficiency to mass-size parameters (as well as with consideration to the ecological aspect) bismuth is the best option.

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The regions and lobes of the brain are identified along with some of the nerves and vessels. The basic functions of the cortex of each lobe are introduced along with principal sulci and gyri. The importance of the left hemisphere for language and the temporal lobe in memory are mentioned along with the concept of cortical localisation. A classical frontal section is used to demonstrate grey and white matter along with the primary internal structures. The brain is one of the largest and most complex organs in the human body. It is made up of more than 100 billion nerves that communicate in trillions of connections called synapses. The brain is made up of many specialised areas that work together: The cortex is the outermost layer of brain cells. the human brain is explained in this video. Full documentary of the human brain.

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