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Oct 7, 2020
Middle school student achieved nuclear fusion in his family playroom
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: education, nuclear energy, particle physics
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Hours before his 13th birthday, Jackson Oswalt (USA) fused together two deuterium atoms using a reactor he had built in the playroom of his family home in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Oct 7, 2020
The Coding School, IBM Quantum Provide Free Quantum Education to 5,000 Students Around the World
Posted by Malak Trabelsi Loeb in categories: computing, education, quantum physics
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The Coding School is collaborating with IBM Quantum to offer a first-of-its-kind quantum computing course for 5,000 high school students and above, designed to make quantum education globally accessible and to provide high-quality virtual STEM education. To ensure an equitable future quantum workforce, the course is free. Students can apply here.
Oct 5, 2020
A Thai scientist and his family decide to cryonically freeze their cherished, dying toddler
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: cryonics, education, life extension
Oct 5, 2020
Born Free Foundation’s Campaign to Keep Wildlife Wild!
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: education, habitats
Keeping Wildlife in the Wild.
Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Will Travers OBE, President of the Born Free Foundation, Born Free USA and Species Survival Network.
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Oct 4, 2020
Microsoft Teams Confirms Superb New Updates And Features To Beat Zoom
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: business, education, internet
Microsoft’s Teams had a very busy September adding a host of new features. Now, the firm is looking to improve the performance of its Teams service as it continues in the battle to beat Zoom in the video conferencing space.
In an update detailing the features added in September, Microsoft explained how it was trying to improve Teams’ performance as a large proportion of the workforce continue to work from home.
Microsoft says it’s working to ensure businesses and schools “have a high-performance experience that scales across their devices and levels of internet connectivity.”
Oct 4, 2020
WHO’s Decade of Healthy Aging: Country Spotlight
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: biotech/medical, education, life extension, policy, transhumanism
TODAY (Oct 4th) the USTP is holding a special pre-RAADFest Enlightenment Salon at 7 a.m. PST / 10 am EST with Gabor Kiss, CEO of ENVIENTA, to discuss ways to empower contributors to open-source projects and accelerate development of practical transhumanist technologies.
Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Alexandre Kalache, President of the International Longevity Centre-Brazil (ILC-Brazil).
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Oct 1, 2020
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF FUTURE AFRICA: SUSTAINING THE SOURCE. DAY 3 — Longevity
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: education, geopolitics, life extension, lifeboat, transhumanism
Beyond 2030 with Gennady Stolyarov II of the United States Transhumanist Party: Growing a Mainstream Transhumanist Movement In “2030: Beyond the Film” Direct…Gennady Stolyarov II: Growing a Mainstream Transhumanist Movement.
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Transdisciplinary Agora for Future Discussions (TAFFD’s) is a global nongovernmental organization registered in the USA that serves as a futuristic think tank endeavored to the education and engagement urgency to help people understand the benefits and challenges of technology applied to high-impact industries and disciplines across the world.
Oct 1, 2020
Crowdsourcing the Cure for Aging | Life Extension Research, Lifespan.IO, and You
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, education, life extension
LEAF president Keith Comito explains the story of Lifespan.io — a crowdsourcing platform and community to support biomedical research aimed at extending healthy human lifespan.
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Sep 23, 2020
Online learning cannot just be for those who can afford its technology
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: biotech/medical, education
The dramatic shift to online learning as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic risks widening educational inequalities.
