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QUANTUM ARCHAEOLOGY.

How Science is trying to resurrect the dead.


Micro Map of the past being created.

• Quantum computers and new maths to calculate detailed histories and memories of everyone dead.
• Face and body reconstructions a million years old already achieved: mind reconstructions coming.
• 106 billion people to be resurrected within 40 years.

• A Child's Guide to Quantum Archaeology (300 words) <~ start here!!!
• Short version (3,000 words)

• The Quantum Archaeology Grid

• Recursive Civilization

• XYLEM

• Turing Church Workshop Paper

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A.I. App enables anyone to read 1000 words a minute

http://www.dailymail...-times-day.html

" the average adult reading rate is 250 words per minute with 70% accuracy"

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Music-making card turns objects into wacky instruments


"A device about the size of a credit card lets you transform a plant into a piano or make a glass of water behave like a drum.
Developed by Joseph Pleass and a team at Dentaku design studio in London, the pocket-sized board, called Ototo, combines a synthesiser with twelve touch-sensitive keys arranged like an octave on a keyboard. Conductive objects can be connected to the keys with crocodile clips, allowing you to trigger notes by touching the object. "It uses the same technology as a touchscreen," says Pleass.
The company's Kickstarter campaign has already surpassed its target of £50,000 with a few days to spare. They will soon begin production, ready to ship the first devices in June." MORE

http://www.newscient...ml#.Uw_6Rc6dMb4

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Changes to Nutrition Labels Announced by FDA


"The nutrition labels on packaged foods will likely get a makeover in the coming years, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
Today (Feb. 27) the agency announced proposed changes to the labels, to reflect the latest nutrition science and the growing understanding of the link between our diet and chronic diseases such as obesity and heart disease, the FDA said. The labels were first introduced in the 1990s, and were last updated in 2006 to add information about trans fat. [Nutrition Facts Label: Proposed FDA Changes (Infographic)]
Here are five things you should know about the new labels." MORE

http://www.scientifi...nounced-by-fda/

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Origin of organs: Thank viruses for your skin and bone




NEXT time you have a cold, rather than cursing, maybe you should thank the virus for making your skin. Genes borrowed from viruses seem to give cells the ability to grow into tissues and organs, and even reproduce sexually. Without these genes, animals could not have evolved beyond simple blobs of cells." MORE

good article

http://www.newscient...ml#.Uw__tc6dMb4
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Blunt force trauma to skull of mummy



"For over a hundred years, an unidentified mummy has been housed in the Bavarian State Archaeological Collection in Germany. Since no records were available on the origin, life and living conditions, scientists used a broad panel of techniques to unravel the story of the female individual resulting in an intriguing observation with an unexpected paleopathological and forensic outcome.
Due to the dark brown external appearance she was tentatively assumed to represent a bog body from the Munich moorland area. MORE"
http://www.pasthoriz...-skull-of-mummy

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the Venus of Willendorf



Microscopic investigations on the world famous statuette from the Gravettian period (30,000 to 22,000 years ago) carried out at the Natural History Museum in Vienna revealed three incredible insights, and when taken together tell a secret story of this Palaeolithic figurine and her creators.

• The limestone from which the 11cm high Venus had been carved, comes almost certainly from the region around the Moravian city of Brno 136km to the northeast of Willendorf.
• The source of the flint blades discovered with the figure was North Moravia, a further 150km to the north.
• The Venus had once been completely painted with red ochre, and given the ritualistic associations of this material meant that the figure was more than likely a cultic object.

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2014/the-secret-story-of-the-venus-of-willendorf

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Petrie Museum is closed for refurbishing until March 2014

Ancient massacre being discovered by archaeologists


"An ancient fort on the island of Öland, Sweden, was once the scene of a terrible massacre. Now, 1600 years later, excavations done by archaeologists from Kalmar County Museum and Lund University (project led by Kalmar County Museum), reveal what happened.
Reporter: Jenny Loftrup
Footage/editing: Johan NymanAn ancient fort on the island of Öland, Sweden, was once the scene of a terrible massacre. Now, 1600 years later, excavations done by archaeologists from Kalmar County Museum and Lund University (project led by Kalmar County Museum), reveal what happened.

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Feb 27, 2014

Big Breakthru in Biology: Sequencing all RNA in a Cell (w/video)





(Nanowerk News) In biology, as in real estate, location matters. Working copies of active genes — called messenger RNAs or mRNAs — are positioned strategically throughout living tissues, and their location often helps regulate how cells and tissues grow and develop. But to analyze many mRNAs simultaneously, scientists have had to grind cells to a pulp, which left them no good way to pinpoint where those mRNAs sat within the cell. Now a team at the Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School, in collaboration with the Allen Institute for Brain Science, has developed a new method that allows scientists to pinpoint thousands of mRNAs and other types of RNAs at once in intact cells — all while determining the sequence of letters, or bases, that identify them and reveal what they do.

A bird's eye view of cellular RNAs (w/video) http://www.nanowerk....p#ixzz2uaZvmyHS

We may find it impossible to fully understand the human system without Machine Intelligence

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Egypt Still the centre for world Archaeology


Mummified head of Tutmoses III.


Photoshop reconstruction:





Archaeology shows humans are one peoples with the dominant civilization changing irrespective of creed or color.
The Romans ended the celtic civilization's dominance and pulled Egypt down and the Germans ended Rome's power and the British empire.

Each artifact we raise helps plotThe Quantum Archaeology Grid from which the resurrection of the dead will be drawn as mapping then for microrobitcs to reassemble.

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Feb thru September 2014. Natural History Museum London.

http://www.nhm.ac.uk...ears/index.html

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https://twitter.com/JCVenter

March 4th Announcement.



great if Craig has found how to make life!

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Researchers investigate robots that can keep secrets

"£2 million three-year project examining the implications of deploying robots in public spaces.

Humanoid robotics is an emerging research field that will become increasingly important as robots start to assist people in their daily lives, for example becoming companions for older people in their homes.

However, there is concern about how much information is gleaned and stored, particularly as these sociable human-seeming devices could lead to us being less guarded about what we reveal.

Dr Brown, Associate Director of Oxford University's Cyber Security Centre and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, is researching ways to enable these robots to glean information without compromising users’ privacy."

MORE

http://www.telegraph...ep-secrets.html

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New laser scanning microscope






"To determine the animal’s position on the phylogenetic tree of life, researchers at the University of Hamburg-Zoological Museum Hamburg in Germany homed in on its nervous system and musculature, systems that may reflect evolutionary paths. Until this imaging, tardigrades were classified using external characteristics, leaving many questions unanswered." MORE

http://discovermagaz...de#.UxCFjc6dMb5

Microscopy is important for Quantum Archaeology. To do memory reconstructions of the past people we're going to have to know how people in general look down to 5 nanometers, then how the environment looked at quantum scales, anything under 100 nanometers.

We are already able to resurrect a species with mixed success, but to resurrect a given individual of that species requires miles more calculation and detail.

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Search for tomb of Imhotep


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Imhotep is Egypt. Amazing biography.

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The first X-ray of a living cell:



the world’s first X-ray of a single cancer cell, DESY Research Centre in Göttingen, Germany

: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz2ueZCsVg7

Scanning X-Ray Nanodiffraction on Living Eukaryotic Cells in Microfluidic Environments

Britta Weinhausen, Oliva Saldanha, Robin N. Wilke, Christian Dammann, Marius Priebe, Manfred Burghammer, Michael Sprung, and Sarah Köster
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 088102 (2014)
Published February 25, 2014


X rays are routinely used to image nanoscale features of biological matter, in which different features are distinguished by how much they scatter the incident x rays. The technique works best when the material being imaged and the surrounding material are different, posing a challenge for imaging live cells, which are predominantly made of, and live in, water. Writing in Physical Review Letters, Sarah Köster from the University of Göttingen, Germany, and her colleagues now demonstrate high-definition x-ray imaging of live cells. Their method allows them to compare living cells to those that are “chemically fixed”—a common preparation method in which cells are preserved using formaldehyde or other chemicals—and to show that fixation can introduce unwanted artifacts into the cells’ structure.
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http://physics.aps.o...Lett.112.088102

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http://phys.org/news...ion-chrome.html

Google Chrome voice recognition unrolls over next few weeks. Your computer will be able to listen and carry out your commands.
Ray Kurzweil has been working in the are for decades.
There's a drawback, claims that google software can now listen o anything said near your system: http://phys.org/news...ser.html#inlRlv

Edited by Innocent, 28 February 2014 - 09:27 PM.

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Resurrection! Bringing extinct species back from the dead


Stanley Spencer



"...as technology is moving at a face pace the limits of scientific accomplishments are being further tested. Revive and Restore is a project aiming to push the boundaries for resurrecting extinct species." MORE

http://www.sciencebr...-from-the-dead/


Not just the speed - the dead can wait for ages - subjectively only a moment will pass for them between loosing consciousness and resurrecting. When it happens is only relevant to the living.

the Singularity is thought to be possible as a hard take-off

Vernor Vinge on Singularity 1 on 1: We Can Surpass the Wildest Dreams of Optimism

http://www.singulari...ms-of-optimism/




His 1993 NASA paper is one of the founding pillars of transhumanism.



Hard Takeoff

Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 December 2008

http://lesswrong.com...f/hard_takeoff/

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Technology growth is at 6 now..

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Best of H+: X-Tech and the Search for Infra Particle Intelligence
By: Hugo de Garis

"Computers are getting smaller and smaller by the year -- today's mobile phones are more powerful than yesterday's mainframes. But we're nowhere near the physical limits of miniaturization. In previous essays I explored the possibility of femtotechnology and femtocomputing. Here I will take some further steps in that direction, elaborating on attotechnology and beyond to zeptotechnology. And I will unravel some of the broader consequences of these technologies..." MORE

http://hplusmagazine...e-intelligence/



The predictions in A.I. were way too optimistic re: when they would happen.

But most of them are happening.

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British Museum Viking Exhibition



"It is the year of our lord 793, and I am a God-fearing monk living on the island monastery of Lindisfarne on the Northumbrian coast. I am illuminating manuscripts in my cell, or weeding the vegetable patch. Or sneakily opening my eyes while supposedly praying, when on the horizon I catch sight of a black dot sailing this way. An hour later that small dot has enlarged to a boat, a small flotilla of boats in fact, and a few hours after that the monastery is ransacked, its storehouses emptied and precious objects stolen. Fellow monks lie slaughtered, their bodies face down in a crimson sea, or have been taken as slaves. As the wounded and maimed stumble around the beach the sterns of several longboats are still visible out on the water, heading north-east." MORE


http://www.theguardi...c-noir-longboat

Ancient Roman Statue Found in Queens Warehouse



The New York Times reports that federal investigators plan to seize on behalf of Italian officials a 1,700-pound lid to an ancient Roman sarcophagus. Discovered in a Queens warehouse, the marble lid, which depicts a reclining woman, was probably looted in the 1970s or early 1980s. Photographs of the statue were found among pictures of looted antiquities in a Swiss gallery belonging to Gianfranco Becchina, who was convicted in 2011 of trafficking in illegal Roman artifacts. “We’re still investigating, and can’t confirm who currently owns or has an interest in the property,” explained assistant United States attorney" MORE

http://www.archaeolo...us-rome-looting



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Body computers prototype in Japan

Ear computer goes into testing





"A tiny personal computer that is worn on the ear and can be controlled with the blink of an eye or the click of a tongue is being tested in Japan.

The 17-gram (0.59-ounce) wireless device has bluetooth capability and is equipped with a GPS, compass, gyro-sensor, battery, barometer, speaker and microphone.

Wearable computing is thought by many commentators to be the next big thing in technology, with products such as Google Glass at the forefront.

The device, known at the moment as the "Earclip-type Wearable PC" has a microchip and data storage, enabling users to load software, said engineer Kazuhiro Taniguchi of Hiroshima City University.

Its designs are based on traditional "ikebana" flower arrangements." MORE


http://phys.org/news...n-tiny-ear.html

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George Church explains his discovery:


Video short:

http://www.nature.co...s-cells-1.14787

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Walking Robots Double as Japanese Guards..

Movements, especially walking is the challenge in robotics. Valkerie, NASA's advanced robot has only 44 degrees of freedom ( person has 10^123^28 * I think this figures right I remember it from Tipler's Physics of Immortality).



http://news.discover...amps-140228.htm

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A supercomputer could change how diseases are treated

20 February 2014



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The medical community has increasingly turned to genetic information to understand, treat and prevent disease in humans; but analyzing information from a single genome can take many months. Now, researchers working with one of the fastest supercomputers in the world are able to get data on 240 complete genomes in only 2 days.
The researchers, from the University of Chicago, have published results of their analysis in the journal Bioinformatics.
Aptly named Beagle - in reference to the ship that accompanied Charles Darwin on his well-known scientific journey in 1831 - the computer is based at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois." MORE
http://www.medicalne...cles/272975.php

http://www.medicalne...cles/272975.php

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Watson 'X' competition



" [Last] Wednesday, at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty unveiled the IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge, encouraging the world’s software developers to build mobile applications that can tap into the supercomputer’s talent for data analysis and machine learning. This could yield a Siri-like voice recognition system or an app that translates text into foreign languages.

"Starting March 31, Rometty said, developers can submit ideas for Watson-powered mobile applications, and later in the year, IBM will select 25 finalists who can use the Watson developer API, or application programming interface, to turn their ideas into working software. Winners also get free consulting from IBM’s Interactive Experience division. But he bigger perk may be that IBM will put its weight behind these new apps once they’re released into the world." MORE

http://www.wired.com.../watson-mobile/

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It's in the blood! Holmes Invents 30 Lab Tests on One Drop



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Elizabeth Holmes founded Theranos 10 years ago. The company is now bringing its medical testing technology to market—and it’s a game changer.


Phlebotomy. Even the word sounds archaic—and that’s nothing compared to the slow, expensive, and inefficient reality of drawing blood and having it tested. As a college sophomore, Elizabeth Holmes envisioned a way to reinvent old-fashioned phlebotomy and, in the process, usher in an era of comprehensive superfast diagnosis and preventive medicine.
That was a decade ago. Holmes, now 30, dropped out of Stanford and founded a company called Theranos with her tuition money. Last fall it finally introduced its radical blood-testing service in a Walgreens pharmacy near company head­quarters in Palo Alto, California. (The plan is to roll out testing centers nation­wide.) Instead of vials of blood—one for every test needed—Theranos requires only a pinprick and a drop of blood. With that they can perform hundreds of tests, from standard cholesterol checks to sophisticated genetic analyses. The results are faster, more accurate, and far cheaper than conventional methods.
The implications are mind-blowing." MORE

http://www.wired.com...olmes-theranos/



Elizabeth Holmes

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The pill that could slow aging:

http://www.dailymail...lth-eldery.html

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'Great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled'

Northern Lights monster solar sun flare on Monday.

http://www.newscient...ml#.UxLomc6dMb4

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Last Neanderthal home.


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An ice age site said to be one of the last known places Neanderthals lived is being studied to assess storm damage.
La Cotte in St Brelade, Jersey, was hit by south-westerly storms including winds of up to 100mph in February.
A British archaeological team commissioned by the Societe Jersiaise will examine the storm damage.
Dr Matt Pope, from the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, said it needed to consider the best solution for long-term preservation." MORE
http://www.bbc.co.uk...jersey-26325289

also
Jersey 'last home of Neanderthals'


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Neanderthals lived there from around 250,000 years ago until between 100,000 and 47,000 years ago - making it he earliest known the occupation of the Channel Islands by a hominim species, and also possibly one of the last Neanderthal sites in northwestern Europe.^{[2]" wiki}

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The Science Is In: Elephants Are Even Smarter Than We Realized [Video]




"One day in 2010, while taking a stroll in his backyard, Kandula the elephant smelled something scrumptious. The scent pulled his attention skyward. There, seemingly suspended in the air, was a sprig of bamboo decorated with bits of cantaloupe and honeydew. Stretching out his trunk, he managed to get the fruit and break off a piece of the branch, but the rest of the tasty leaves remained tantalizingly out of reach. Without hesitation he marched straight to a large plastic cube in the yard, rolled it just beneath the hovering bamboo and used it as a step stool to pull the whole branch to the ground. Seven-year-old Kandula had never before interacted with a cube in this manner. Determined to satisfy his stomach and his curiosity, he did something scientists did not know elephants could do: he had an aha moment." MORE

http://www.scientifi...realized-video/