Here is Michael Yamashita's blog scan of interesting entries for this week:

http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1157744495.shtml
...I've been babbling about the Large Hadron Collider coming online next year to people who couldn't care less for some time (I think ever since I first read about it in, iirc, The Elegant Universe). It really is a huge deal, as it could finally prove or disprove string/M theory, as well as answering some questions about dark matter and the fundamental basis of mass and how it arises in our universe.

And when the Singularity does get here, we'll now be able to know (OK, arbitrarily specify) just exactly when it got here to 100 times the previous available accuracy.

Good news for those hoping to live long enough to see the Singularity: looks like Aubrey de Grey has a friend (link to a Yahoo news piece on stem cells)....

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http://posthumanblues.blogspot.com/2006/08/live-forever-speakers-debated.html
... Live forever Speakers debated questions including: "How will humans re-engineer the human body?" and "What is natural about us and does it matter?" One of the speakers, Dr Aubrey de Grey - a geneticist at Cambridge University and described as "perhaps the most optimistic" of the scientists who want to lengthen human life - believes that ...If we can make it to 1000, we will have achieved immortality. We won't have to worry about "illness"; we'll worry about altogether bigger threats such as the lifetimes of stars, the hard radiation of supernovae, the gnarled topology of spacetime, and, ultimately, the fate of the universe itself...
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http://crnano.typepad.com/crnblog/2006/09/why_the_slow_ac.html
... NanoEnthusiast wrote on our blog yesterday, "I can't help but think that if all the radical ideas related to Drexlerian nanotechnology (i.e radical life-extension, nanofactories that can make anything) had not been talked about; then maybe the rather modest-sounding claim that one can build interesting nanostuctures out of diamond one atom (or ...
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http://odograph.com/?p=681
... Interesting Aging Mechanism September 8th, 2006 This will present a dilemma to the life-extension folk: ANN ARBOR, Mich -- The natural consequences of growing old include slower wound-healing and a brain that makes fewer new neurons because old tissues have less regenerative capacity. What has not been clear is why. A trio of papers published ...
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http://nakedwisdom.blogspot.com/2006/09/aubrey-de-greys-interview-on-gmtvs-good.html
... This is an interview with gerentologist Aubrey de Grey on GMTV's Good Morning...
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http://happycrow.wordpress.com/2006/09/08/old-age-or-cancer-take-your-pick/
... Old Age or Cancer, take your pick September 8, 2006 Posted by happycrow in Happycrow, The Scifi is NOW. add a comment It seems that the aging process now needs to be described a little differently. I've been waiting for a web link on this, having heard a teaser on the radio: FuturePundit's on the ball. Why do we age? Why don't our stem cells ... Why do we age? Why don't our stem cells continue to divide to produce cells needed to repair and maintain the body? Three research groups Harvard, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and at University of Michican have found very strong evidence that as cells age they make more of a protein that slows down cells in order to reduce the risk of cancer...
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http://pimm.wordpress.com/2006/09/05/wiki-possibilities-of-life-extension-science/
... Yesterday I organized a meeting where the speaker was the convincing Jimbo Wiki Wales, founder of Wikipedia. He told us about the overall wiki phenomena and his latest proposal the Campaigns Wikia website, which is about participatory [ jimbo]politics made by web users and wiki software. I had a concrete campaign offer in July to support life ...
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http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=14454223&blogID=162331026
... I notice a lack, an overwhelming lack actually, of people enthusiastic about keeping their bodies from deterioriating to the point where they die. Do people just not care about their lives that much? Is what is going on in your mind and your reactions to this enviroment youve been thrust into just really not all that big of a deal? Ide be ...
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http://singularityvideos.blogspot.com/2006/09/aubrey-de-grey-interview-with-janet.html
... British (department of genetics at Cambridge University) scientist Aubrey de Grey, Ph.D., is interviewed by Bloomberg news correspondent ... Janet Street-Porter. A brief overview on how aging could be curable and extreme life extension could be available in as little as 25 years and the scientific debate surrounding such a proposition. ...
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http://csworks.blogspot.com/2006/09/live-forever.html
... Aubrey de Grey thinks he knows how to defeat aging. He's brilliant, but is he nuts? (link to TR
site)
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