These microscopic creatures – also dubbed moss piglets – were collected in Antarctica in 1983 during Japan’s 24th research expedition there. In 2014, a team at the National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo decided to defrost samples of tardigrades that spent over three decades in the institute’s freezer as a part of their long-term […]
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Defrosted tiny animals come back to life, breed after 30 years in freezer
January 19th, 2016 Awake Goy
Keep Calm And Share Your DNA, Says Google Ventures CEO
October 23rd, 2015 Awake Goy
If you’re worried about the privacy of your genetic data, you’re standing in the way of technological breakthroughs that could drastically extend the human lifespan, according to Bill Maris, the CEO of Google Ventures. Maris founded Calico, a biotech company established by Google in 2013 that is waging war on aging. “If we […]
A SATURDAY NIGHT AT STARBUCKS
October 20th, 2015 Awake Goy
And those things, as we also know, are massively amplified by the attention-seeking class. (Bad news sells.) Somehow, the parade of negativity had its effect on me. Sitting in the Starbucks cured me. What I Saw It was a very average Starbucks in a very average location. And the […]