https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqSDWoAhvLU Google has made a major breakthrough in its self-driving car project. The tech giant has now started building its own prototype vehicles from scratch, rather than retro-fitting existing commercial models such as the Toyota Prius. This has enabled some interesting design modifications such as, well, no steering wheel — for a start! Google is... Continue Reading →
3D Printed Fruit is Here, Thanks to Cambridge Company Dovetailed
http://vimeo.com/96510739 The 3D printing of food is certainly a futuristic concept, but it’s also something that, at this point, not too many people are all that excited about. Sure, it’s awesome for making customized candies like the ChefJet does, or for adding a bit of flair to a cake, but the idea of one day... Continue Reading →
Humanity Is Now Officially Ready For Suspended Animation
http://youtu.be/NjfmP8JqM-w Humanity Is Now Officially Ready For Suspended Animation Surgeons from the UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, are set to begin suspended animation trials by dramatically cooling down trauma victims in an effort to keep them alive during critical operations. Twenty years ago, Peter Safar and Ron Bellamy proposed that the rapid induction of... Continue Reading →
The Future of Work and Death
http://youtu.be/4FO-107eeq0 A documentary feature concerning the future of two ‘inevitable’ parts of the human condition; WORK and DEATH. The film focuses on how future technology could significantly change two major facets of human life; work and death. It explores how AI and technological singularity could be achievable in the next 30 years - how job... Continue Reading →
This Video Made Me Understand My Unity With The Universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORy9nDsF18#t=21 This 5 minute video shows a compilation of a great deal of human knowledge, and does so efficiently, artistically, and impressively. If you didn’t know: you will better understand. Anything you did know, will be refreshed and become more accessible to you. It helped me add to my understanding of our common unity with... Continue Reading →
More than 40% of domestic violence victims are male, report reveals
http://youtu.be/FM7ZIIuYLao About two in five of all victims of domestic violence are men, contradicting the widespread impression that it is almost always women who are left battered and bruised, a new report claims. Men assaulted by their partners are often ignored by police, see their attacker go free and have far fewer refuges to flee... Continue Reading →
Guaranteed Annual Income Could End U.S. PovertyMost Americans are familiar with Martin Luther King, Jr’s dream of ending racial segregation in the United States. However, Martin Luther King Jr. had another dream that is less well known. Before King was assassinated, he advocated a guaranteed annual income for every American, so that nobody would have to live in... Continue Reading →
Guaranteed Annual Income Could End U.S. Poverty
Net Neutrality [RAP NEWS 25]
http://youtu.be/k-xSP_T0VqU Having covered conflicts in distant lands, we now turn our attention to our own native homeland, the Internet, where the battle for the hypersphere has reached new heights, as netizens take up arms against Telcoms and the FCC to defend the fundamental ethos which has made the Internet what it is today: Net Neutrality.... Continue Reading →
The dramatic inequality of public-school spending in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97iTHq2TZfQ Despite several decades of reform, public education in the United States is criticized by some as not teaching all children effectively. Consistently poor test results and low graduation rates attest to this. As a result, many taxpayers criticize public schools and demand better results. At the same time, many Americans express a deep faith... Continue Reading →
Fujitsu Converts Fukushima Microchip Factory into a Radiation-Free Lettuce Farm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ma6PUdmRas Tech giant Fujitsu Ltd. just started its own large-scale organic lettuce farm in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture. In a project that blends agriculture, industry and medicine, the Aizu-Wakamatsu Akisai Vegetable Plant grows a healthier, less bitter variety of lettuce that is low in potassium and nitrates. The trial vegetable farm was set up in a... Continue Reading →