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Summary:

A dazzling tour of the universe as Einstein saw it. 

How did Albert Einstein come up with the theories that changed the way we look at the world? By thinking in pictures. Michio Kaku, leading theoretical physicist (a cofounder of string theory) and best-selling science storyteller, shows how Einstein used seemingly simple images to lead a revolution in science. Daydreaming about racing a beam of light led to the special theory of relativity and the equation E = mc^2. Thinking about a man falling led to the general theory of relativity giving us black holes and the Big Bang. Einstein's failure to come up with a theory that would unify relativity and quantum mechanics stemmed from his lacking an apt image. Even in failure, however, Einstein's late insights have led to new avenues of research as well as to the revitalization of the quest for a "Theory of Everything". 

With originality and expertise, Kaku uncovers the surprising beauty that lies at the heart of Einstein's cosmos.


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Einstein's Cosmos by Michio Kaku, Narrated by Ray Porter

This is part of an audio blog series I've decided to create, since the idea for an internet radio show is not yet realized. I enjoy talking about things like mind/body connection and health, dimensional realities, alternate realities, time/space, quantum physics, consciousness, spirituality, matters involving heart-based love(or lack of it), and pretty much anything that is not boring(in my opinion) like movie stars and the latest clothing or electronic fad. ha

If you enjoyed any of this, even a few small bits, please let me know in the comments area, and any suggestions, questions, or other comments you may have, I'd love to hear those as well, and hopefully answer them soon. :)

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Body Mind, Community, ORMUS And Possibilities(abbreviated)

Science Fantastic: Professor Michio Kaku on the Controversies Surrounding the IQ Test

More here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/13/neil-degrasse-tyson-and-ann-druyan-on-carl-sagan/

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on Carl Sagan

An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku, The international bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible. Read by the actor Feodor Chin.

Recording memories, mind reading, videotaping our dreams, mind control, avatars, and telekinesis - no longer are these feats of the mind solely the province of overheated science fiction. As Michio Kaku reveals, not only are they possible, but with the latest advances in brain science and recent astonishing breakthroughs in technology, they already exist. In The Future of the Mind, the New York Times-bestselling author takes us on a stunning, provocative and exhilarating tour of the top laboratories around the world to meet the scientists who are already revolutionising the way we think about the brain - and ourselves.

Michio Kaku: The Future of the Mind (Audiobook extract) Read by Feodor Chin

Tracklist:
01. Speaking Minds - The Lost Dramatic Arp / Spoken word by Carl Sagan from 'Cosmos' audiobook
02. Speaking Minds - Amnesia (Clarian Remix)
03. Housemeister - Italodisco
04. Daniel Avery - Freefloating
05. Bob Moses - Far From The Tree (excerpt)
06. Kolme Kaveria - Fjord
07. Bobmo - Hotspot (Maelstrom remix)
08. Diamond Version - The Future of Memory
09. French Fries - Drums
10. TEED - Tapes And Memory (John Talabot remix)
11. Anaxander - My Aniseed Lollipop
12. Ana Sia - The Glass delusion
13. Boys Noize - Stop (Audions acid state mix)
14. Boddika - Heat
15. James Tee - The Last Request (MOTSA remix vinyl mix)
16. Tin Man - Tip the Acid
17. Mario & Vidis - Changed feat. Ernesto (John Talabot Private Remix)
18. Bob Moses - Far Fom The Tree (excerpt )

Adam Freeland - Pale Blue Dot - (an ode to Carl Sagan)

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In his new book The Future of the Mind, physicist and futurist Michio Kaku imagines a world where science and science fiction collide. A brain pacemaker for Alzheimer's patients? An Internet of human emotions? Kaku surveys advances in neuroscience that could make these sci-fi dreams a reality.

Michio Kaku Imagines ‘The Future of the Mind’

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PN5JJDh78I

This excerpt from A Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Carl Sagan's suggestion, by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pale_Blue_Dot.png). As the spacecraft left our planetary neighborhood for the fringes of the solar system, engineers turned it around for one last look at its home planet. Voyager 1 was about 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) away, and approximately 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane, when it captured this portrait of our world. Caught in the center of scattered light rays (a result of taking the picture so close to the Sun), Earth appears as a tiny point of light, a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size.

Music: Ludovico Einaudi with a track titled, very fittingly, "The Earth Prelude"

For more, visit www.sagantime.com

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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

-- Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

Carl Sagan - You Are Here (Pale Blue Dot) [Sagan Time]

Speaker(s): Dr Fabienne Peter, Professor Catherine Rowett, Dr Stephen de Wijze | Is politics the instrument of moral ideals and values? Is it something like ‘applied morality’? In recent years there has been a revival of approaches which give greater autonomy to distinctively political thought, which can be called ‘political realism’, in contrast to ‘political moralism’. The panel discussion will explore this contrast, and ask whether political legitimacy is ultimately a question of one’s moral conception. Fabienne Peter is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Catherine Rowett (@catherinerowett) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and Green Party parliamentary candidate for South Norfolk. Stephen de Wijze is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Manchester. Geoffrey Hawthorn is Emeritus Professor of International Politics and Emeritus Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. The Forum for European Philosophy (@LSEPhilosophy) is an educational charity which organises and runs a full and varied programme of philosophy and interdisciplinary events in the UK.

Is Politics Based on Morality? [Audio]

Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, bestselling author, acclaimed public speaker, renowned futurist, and popularizer of science. As co-founder of String Field Theory, Dr. Kaku carries on Einstein’s quest to unite the four fundamental forces of nature into a single grand unified theory of everything. You will not be surprised to hear that Michio Kaku has been on my guest dream-list since I started Singularity 1 on 1, and I was beyond ecstatic to finally have an opportunity to speak to him.

During our 90 min conversation with Dr. Michio Kaku we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: why he shifted his focus from the universe to the human mind; his definition, classification and ranking of consciousness; his take on the Penrose-Hameroff Orch OR model; Newton, Einstein, determinism and free will; whether the brain is a classical computer or not; Norman Doidge’s work on neuro-plasticity and The Brain That Changes Itself; the underlying reality of everything; his dream to finish what Einstein has started and know the mind of God; The Future of the Mind; mind-uploading and space travel at the speed of light; Moore’s Law and D-Wave’s quantum computer; the Human Brain Project and whole brain simulation; alternatives paths to AI and the Turing Test as a way of judging progress; cryonics and what is possible and impossible…

Watch the full video of the interview here: https://www.singularityweblog.com/michio-kaku-future-of-the-mind/

Michio Kaku: Science is the Engine of Prosperity!

In episode fifteen we talk with Max Welling, of the University of Amsterdam and University of California Irvine. We talk with him about his work with extremely large data and big business and machine learning. We take a listener question about the relationship between machine learning and artificial intelligence. Plus, we get an introduction to change point detection. 

Really Really Big Data and Machine Learning in Business

Emissions from Indonesian fires greater than U.S. emissions. Dr. D. Murdiyarso from CIFOR and Rhett Butler from Mongabay explain the crisis. Radio Ecoshock 151104

Climate Disaster Indonesia

How can a materials science approach lead to medical breakthroughs?
In this episode of Disruptive, Wyss Core Faculty Member Dave Mooney discusses programmable nanomaterials approaches to fighting disease. Mooney explains how a cancer vaccine, developed by his team and currently in a clinical trial at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, can train one’s own immune system to target specific cancer cells. He also describes the development of novel hydrogels that find application in drug delivery systems and tissue regeneration. Chris Gemmiti, a member of the Wyss Institute’s Business Development team, joins the conversation to discuss the Wyss process of translation and what is involved in bringing the hydrogel drug delivery technology from bench-to-bedside.

Transcript: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wyss-prod/app/uploads/2017/08/10130728/Ep4_Disruptive_Cancer_Vaccine__Hydrogel_Drug_Delivery.pdf

Disruptive: Cancer Vaccine & Hydrogel Drug Delivery | Wyss Institute

In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, bestselling author Michio Kaku takes us on a dizzying ride to explore black holes and time machines, multidimensional space and, most tantalizing of all, the possibility that parallel universes may lay alongside our own. Kaku skillfully guides us through the latest innovations in string theory and its latest iteration, M-theory, which posits that our universe may be just one in an endless multiverse, a singular bubble floating in a sea of infinite bubble universes.  If  M-theory is proven correct, we may perhaps finally find answer to the question, &#8220;What happened before the big bang?&#8221;  This is an exciting and unforgettable introduction into the new cutting-edge theories of physics and cosmology from one of the pre-eminent voices in the field.

Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku, read by Marc Vietor

Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explores the mysteries of the  mind with internet pioneer Vint Cerf.  Kaku is a renowned futurist and co-founder of string field theory who is carrying on Albert Einstein’s quest to unite the forces of nature into single, grand, unified theory of everything.  He’s also the author or numerous New York Times best-selling books, including “The Future of the Mind.”

Mysteries Of The Human Mind With Michio Kaku

Will the next great medical insight come from a clinical trial, a laboratory study — or a database search? Today, health systems and insurers have access to a mountain of data about millions of Americans: what medications they take, their health history, even, in some cases, their genetics—plus an emerging body of mobile health data. Using “big data” techniques, doctors and researchers are already mining this data to deliver better care and to gain insights into the kind of hyper-specific questions that clinical trials and observational studies struggle to answer. The approach promises major, rapid-fire, highly-personalized discoveries. At the same time, with the specter of cyberattacks and hacks looming, the need for rugged privacy protection has never been greater. In this Forum, experts in healthcare data and privacy will discuss the potential for future discovery, practical steps to enable progress, and how information can be kept secure.

Part of the The Dr. Lawrence H. and Roberta Cohn Forums, this event was presented jointly with HuffPost on Tuesday, December 5, 2017.

Watch the entire series at ForumHSPH.org.

The Health Data Revolution: Improving Outcomes, Protecting Privacy

The 2018 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 180 countries on 24 performance indicators across ten issue categories covering environmental health and ecosystem vitality. These metrics provide a gauge at a national scale of how close countries are to established environmental policy goals. The EPI thus offers a scorecard that highlights leaders and laggards in environmental performance, gives insight on best practices, and provides guidance for countries that aspire to be leaders in sustainability.

20th Anniversary of the Environmental Performance Index

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Carl Sagan - The Pale Blue Dot

The prisoner of Zenda

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Carl Sagan on God, gods and the Cosmos

What will life be like in 2100? We ask famed physicist Michio Kaku, a professor at the City University of New York and author of  “The Physics of the Future.”

Michio Kaku Predicts the Future

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Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku, read by Marc Vietor

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