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A schizofrenic braindump, a stream of cyberpunk, post-cyberpunk, neopunk, futurism and sci-fi items, inspiration for my writing and game design. Usually managed by my trusty auto-posting AI residing in a possum-brain in my kitchen sink.

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January 25

4 | 25.1.2012 | 1 month ago |

The Complicated Ethics of the Unborn | Quiet Babylon

Brilliance from Quiet Babylon:

If unborn have rights, what about the indefinite number of future generations?
By going vegan, you’ll help reducing number of born animals..
Can you preserve animals in order to be able to hunt them?
Are vat grown people born or not?
What about failed fertilisations - how many unborn are killed?

Read on!

December 18

405 | 18.12.2011 | 2 months ago |

The face of the millennial space traveler.

(Source: disturbedesign, via oldmanyellsatcloud)

July 4

0 | 4.7.2011 | 7 months ago |

German factory now producing and selling artificially grown human skin

July 3

4 | 3.7.2011 | 7 months ago |

Why we should clone Neanderthals

June 24

0 | 24.6.2011 | 8 months ago |

Scientists able to control aggression - and pacifism - on mice using light and genetics

Being able to activate aggressiveness with the flick of a (light) switch is truly scary, and it is argued that the technique should work on humans, not just mice…

May 13

4 | 13.5.2011 | 9 months ago |

Paul Root Wolpe highlights in this TED talk how insanely far we have already gotten in bio-engineering - creating mixed species, altering species, combining electronics and biology - and he ultimately asks - can this be ethically motivated?

I’m not too bothered with the ethics, but this is still a very good summary of where we are - and are going - with bio-engineering.

(Source: ted.com)

March 26

1 | 26.3.2011 | 11 months ago |

Meet Spider Goat - the DNA-enhanced web-flinging nanny that may one day knit bones

November 11

0 | 11.11.2010 | 1 year ago |

Genetics company Ilumina preparing to clone Neanderthals

“Look at my fabolous Neanderthal masseur, he really knows how to use his hands!”

October 7

0 | 7.10.2010 | 1 year ago |

“ The cell should sometimes be tricked into repairing the cut by splicing in the added DNA - a process known as homologous repair. In other words, the extra DNA is added exactly where you want it. Rumour has it that researchers at the biotech company Sigma-Aldrich are the first to use zinc fingers to achieve this in animals.
Just love the company name “Sigma-Aldrich”. Sounds like the cheesiest name possible for some B-rated DNA-horror flick. Quote from New Scientist article “Altered animals”.

September 18

0 | 18.9.2010 | 1 year ago |

Genetics: can acquired characteristics be inherited? Seems so.

So then a clone is not really a clone. Where/how is this information stored and transferred between generations?

September 17

0 | 17.9.2010 | 1 year ago |

Cat glowing in dark, one of the wonderful latest inventions from the bio-industry! (and did you know that 80% of all soy beans are already genetically altered?) (New Scientist via @boingboing)

August 3

0 | 3.8.2010 | 1 year ago |

For my story: stem cell baths and spinal fluid cream.

January 24

0 | 24.1.2010 | 2 years ago |

Film: SPLICE

oskarsundfeldt:

“Two young scientists (Brody and Polley) achieve fame by splicing human DNA with the DNA of different animals to create a new creature^[2]. In the process they ignore their society’s ethical and legal boundaries. The scientists name their creature Dren” -Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splice_%28film%29

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1017460/

January 5

0 | 5.1.2010 | 2 years ago |

Top Ten List of Cybernetics

From a not too distant future. Includes items such as Dalidai Mercury Glide Elite and Nephronicks-Glomerulus’ Bioartificial Kidney Mark I.

January 2

0 | 2.1.2010 | 2 years ago |

Comic-that-could-be-a-scifi: Posers, the genetically grown “living mannequins” for photo shoots…