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Thriv’Ability: Infinity Burial Project
Contributed by Rick DeVan on October 14, 2011 at 8:00 pm ET
Resource: The Infinity Burial Project.
The Infinity Burial Project proposes alternatives for the postmortem body that promote and facilitate an individual engagement with the process of decomposition. The Project features the development of a unique strain of mushroom that decomposes and remediates toxins in human tissue, the development of a decomposition ‘kit’, burial suits embedded with decomposition activators, and a membership society devoted to the promotion of death awareness and acceptance and the practice of decompiculture (the cultivation of decomposing organisms). Founded and directed by Jae Rhim Lee, the Infinity Burial Project is funded by the Creative Capital Foundation, the Institüt für Raumexperimente/Universität der Künste Berlin, and the MAK Center for Art + Architecture.
Oh, my. I am laughing just enough to think she may be on to something.
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Thriv’Ability: Be The Match – National Marrow Donor Program
Contributed by Rick DeVan on at 8:00 pm ET
Resource: Be The Match — National Marrow Donor Program.
Each year, 10,000 patients need a marrow transplant from an unrelated donor, but only half receive one.
Resource via Eliminating the impulse to stall at Seth’s Blog
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Thriv’Ability: Data Eye in the Sky
Contributed by Rick DeVan on at 8:00 pm ET
Resource: Government Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’ via NYTimes.com.
The most optimistic researchers believe that these storehouses of “big data” will for the first time reveal sociological laws of human behavior — enabling them to predict political crises, revolutions and other forms of social and economic instability, just as physicists and chemists can predict natural phenomena.
Resource: IARPA — Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) invests in high-risk/high-payoff research programs that have the potential to provide our nation with an overwhelming intelligence advantage over future adversaries.
Exciting and frightening. I wonder, though, that unlike natural phenomena, will predicting social instability influence it?
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Thriv’Ability: Aakash Tablet
Contributed by Rick DeVan on at 8:00 pm ET
Resource: India unveils $35 tablet computer via LATimes.com.
The nation of 1.2 billion people announced plans to sell government-subsidized tablets priced at $35 to thousands of needy villagers in the countryside. Named Aakash, or “sky” in Hindi, the tablet has been touted as the cheapest of its kind in the world.
Resource: Aakash cost below $35, govt buying at $49 via The Times of India.
“The government has asked for a special replacement warranty. Government has asked us not to to repair it (Aakash Tablet)… You will have to replace it… which is a big cost,“ Suneet Singh Tuli, the CEO of Datawind, the company manufacturing the tablet, told PTI.
Resource: DataWind.
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Thriv’Ability: Alpha Robot Dog Prototype
Contributed by Rick DeVan on October 7, 2011 at 8:00 pm ET
How about getting supplies to and rescuing trapped people? There are possibly many more peaceful applications for this prototype.
Admittedly, there is something bizarre and uncomfortable about this prototype. Then, again, it is not there for my comfort… it is there to get the job done.
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