In recent years scientists have been surprised to find RNAs outside of their cellular comfort zone. A Yale study offers insight into what they’re doing there.
Powered by hydrogen and emitting nothing but water, the Hyperion XP-1 hypercar is a true game changer, but it won’t come cheap.
Stanislaw Lem’s forgotten masterwork Summa Technologiae, now in English half a century after publication, is a heady mix of prescience, philosophy and irony.
By Simon Ings
„Summa Technologie is a „mother-essay from which most of Lem’s later essayistic books stem. It was written in times when most of the discussed issues – today sometimes quite obvious ones – belonged to the world of fantasy. The ambition behind this project still amazes, especially if we take into consideration that Lem tried to set up a secular edifice of knowledge, competing in its universalism with Saint Thomas Aquinas and his Summa Theologica.
At the same time the book rivals world futurology — in the domain of foreseeing future ways of science and technology. Current generation, interested in biotechnology and informatics, shall find in Lem’s “Summa” the project and prophecy of todays’ successes of these disciplines.
The English translation (University Of Minnesota Press, 2013) is the work of Joanna Zylinska, professor of new media and communications at Goldsmiths, University of London.
A coronal mass ejection will trigger a geomagnetic storm, which can impact technology and cause the Northern Lights to be seen further south.
Freudian Psychology.
Updating Freud’s Psychology.
Let’s take Freud’s core models and update them based on modern science.
