Are you Superhuman?

About this video: This is only a “remix” version I found online of the original Ryan animation.

According to Allen Snyder of the University of Sydney and director of Centre for the Mind:

“All people have [these] latent super abilities, but only some are able to express them through “malfunctions” of overriding brain functions.”

How many “genius ideas” are often brought to light due to what normally might be considered abnormal. Also, like Ryan (the youtube video), what effects might drugs have on producing “genius ideas?”

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Adventures in Convergence XIX: Bio-Polyester

I don’t know how I missed the rise of synthetic biology, a discipline focused on the engineering of life. While programmers and roboticists sit around thinking of ways to create artificial life, biologists have slowly come to realize that we know enough about the nuts and bolts of cells, genes, and DNA to create life on our own. Going beyond mere genetic manipulation or cloning, biologists recently constructed the first synthetic genome and are on their way to creating the first full-fledged synthetic organism.

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