More People Signing Up For Cryonics
I’m featured in a new cryonics documentary [online now] that airs Monday 10PM ET on Fusion TV. The past year has been great for cryonics: In 2015, Cryonics Institute set a record for new…
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Asparagus Metabolizes Into Neurotoxin Over 5x More Powerful Than PCP
Somewhere between 43-63% of people find their urine has a strong, unusual smell after they eat asparagus. Have you ever wondered why that is? In the late 1980s, researchers established that this pungent odor…
Cryonics Scientifically Proven To Work In Model Organism
Ever since cryonics was first conceived of 50 years ago, people have been waiting for scientific proof that it might actually work. Sure, scientists have been able to indefinitely cryopreserve human embryos for the…
Longevity Cookbook Indiegogo Launch Party
If we want to slow down and eventually defeat aging, we’re going to have to organize more concrete projects that directly address it. The Longevity Cookbook will both directly increase longevity *and* lay out…
Poker vs Tennis: Career Trajectory, Earnings, Exposure, and Costs Are All Similar
(Cross-posted excerpt from research I did for Raising for Effective Giving.) Professional-level poker and tennis are both competitive endeavors that take years to train for. The size of the player pools are similar. And…
Poker’s Positive Economic Impact; Including over 119,000 jobs
(Cross-posted excerpt from research I did for Raising for Effective Giving.) Amazingly, no one has ever calculated the full economic impact of poker. Some top line statistics on poker’s annual worldwide economic impact: $5.16…
Universal Tax Loss Harvesting
Excited to see that Betterment has upped its game by extending tax loss harvesting to all of their customers… including me. I wrote about this before when I explained why Betterment seems like the…
Chore Reduction Device Cleans Your Clothes In 10 Minutes
You know how you hate doing laundry? Someone just solved that. That’s why I think the Swash is easily the most important tech innovation of 2014. The value proposition of this device is amazing….
Organic algae shot claiming to have over 65 nutrients… only has 2
I recently ate at a trendy health-food joint called Cafe Gratitude that sells $3.25 “live algae” shots. The most interesting thing about these shots is they claim to have “over 65 vitamins, minerals, amino…
Raising for Effective Giving
As an effective altruist, I’ve written before about how passionate I am when it comes to identifying and giving to the highest impact charities. So I was really excited this summer to join REG, the new effective giving…
3 Easy Ways to Improve eBay Giving Works
Apparently eBay has an option where you can sell things on their platform and have all the proceeds go directly to charity. This includes eBay waiving all their listing and selling fees and the…
Cost Analysis of Cryonics vs Longterm Intensive Care at Hospitals
Ever wonder how expensive end-of-life care is in the US? Or how cost-competitive cryonics might be for those who felt it offered a superior chance at life? This analysis was spurred by a hospital…
8 Bold Ideas From Rejuvenation Biotechnology
Here are the 8 most fascinating updates from this year’s Rejuvenation Biotechnology Conference… roughly in order of the credibility I place in each: 1. Hepatitis C is Cured – The only reason you haven’t…
Upcoming Rejuvenation Biotechnology Conference
50 top anti-aging researchers from around the world are coming together this Thursday for the Rejuvenation Biotechnology Conference in Santa Clara, California. The event is organized by SENS, a Bay Area research nonprofit dedicated…
We Could Cryopreserve Bone Marrow From Organ Donors — But We Don’t
A few months ago, Liz Parrish at Biotrove Investments interviewed me about how we could help cure cancer with cryopreserved bone marrow. It’s pretty simple really. Thousands of cancer patients need bone marrow transplants…
Increase Longevity And Intelligence With Boosted Klotho Levels
Researchers recently found that a single gene may account for as much as 3% of total variation in human intelligence. If this result holds, it suggests some obvious strategies for developing new kinds of…
Superintelligence Is Coming
This is historic. Many authors have published books with a “call to action” about the importance of machine superintelligence (including at least 4 books in the past 2 years): Singularity Rising by James Miller…
Pre-Order Zero to One
If you’re gonna read one book about entrepreneurship this year, I recommend Peter Thiel’s upcoming book “Zero to One”. I read through it a couple months ago and enjoyed it a lot. It’s incredibly…
New Seventeen or Bust Client v28.5
Enhancements Include: Reduced memory usage Faster FFTs due to support for Intel’s new fused multiply add instruction Minor optimizations may give a small performance boost for AVX CPUs Improved benchmarking on multi-core machines
