Posts Tagged ‘Social Science’

Ignorance Is Futile Exclusive: Nanotechnology poses inherent threats greater than anything we’ve ever faced. This heavily modified Hollywood film shows what such a takeover by tyrants via nanobots could look like. Currently billions of dollars per year are dumped into nano research by governments and corporations worldwide. Nanobots that can penetrate past the blood-brain barrier [...]

NSLF: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is fond of saying, “You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste; it’s an opportunity to do important things that you would otherwise avoid.” Well, the Obama Administration certainly has not let the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil rig crisis go to waste, using it as [...]

New Scientist: WHEN we fall under the spell of a charismatic figure, areas of the brain responsible for scepticism and vigilance become less active. That’s the finding of a study which looked at people’s response to prayers spoken by someone purportedly possessing divine healing powers. To identify the brain processes underlying the influence of charismatic [...]

Technology Review: Europe’s Plan to Simulate the Entire Planet The ‘Living Earth Simulator’ will mine economic, environmental and health data to create a model of the entire planet in real time. When it comes to global crises, we’re not short of complex systems that look close to the edge: the climate, the food supply, energy [...]

WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) – Brain scans may be able to predict what you will do better than you can yourself, and might offer a powerful tool for advertisers or health officials seeking to motivate consumers, researchers said on Tuesday. … “On day one of the experiment, before the scanning session, each participant indicated their [...]