M.J. Rose

Some extremely smart people (the “Revive & Restore Initiative“) are starting a new project called “De-Extinction”. There’s a big conference and TED “talk” happening tomorrow at The National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C., to which you may tune in here.

What will they be talking about exactly?

…”Revive & Restore, with the support of TED and in partnership with National Geographic Society, is convening a day-long conference to showcase the prospects of bringing extinct species back to life, along with a discussion of the ethical issues that will raise…”

Yes, you read that correctly: “the prospects of bringing extinct species back to life.”

More background here, and take a poll: Which species would you like to see revived? (The Tasmanian tiger, the California condor, the woolly mammoth…? Revive & Restore are already hard at work on the North American passenger pigeon which was last seen alive almost a century ago.)

Since I tend to suspect that the Egyptian pyramids are a lot older than mainstream Egyptologists claim, this headline may not be perfect – but the point is, WOW! There was some very interesting civilization and culture going on in Europe in prehistoric times. My guess is that we will be discovering a lot more of this type of thing in the next few years, and with those discoveries we will find that human civilization is a lot older than we had thought –

Builders excavating site for housing estate in Wales discover foundations of a meeting house ‘older than the Egyptian pyramids’

By GRAHAM SMITH (DailyMail)

Unique find: The foundations of a meeting house which could be 6,500 years old were uncovered as builders worked on a new housing estate in Monmouth, south Wales

“A large prehistoric building older than Egypt’s pyramids has been discovered in Wales. The foundations of a meeting house which was at least 50ft long were uncovered as builders worked on a new housing estate in Monmouth. Archaeologists are mystified by the ‘unique’ find and say that nothing like it has ever been found in Britain. After studying the foundations, made up of 3ft-wide tree trunks, experts believe the building was a long house constructed on the edge of a long-lost lake which has silted up over time. Monmouth Archaeology has dated the find to at least the Bronze Age – but it could be early Neolithic about 6,500 years ago…”

Read more here.

Paranormal is just about to be simply “normal” – Did you think our ability to master telekinesis and telepathy would look like this?

Temporary tattoos could make electronic telepathy and telekinesis possible

by Charles Q. Choi – Txchnologist

“Temporary electronic tattoos could soon help people fly drones with only thought and talk seemingly telepathically without speech over smartphones, researchers say. Electrical engineer Todd Coleman at the University of California at San Diego is devising noninvasive means of controlling machines via the mind, techniques virtually everyone might be able to use.

Commanding machines using the brain is no longer the stuff of science fiction. In recent years, brain implants have enabled people to control robotics using only their minds, raising the prospect that one day patients could overcome disabilities using bionic limbs or mechanical exoskeletons…”

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