I expect be unavailable to publish The Rational Argumentator until circa November 22, 2012 – but, in the meantime, various new offerings have been posted for my readers.
In addition, I have recently been impressed by the significant contributions my computer has made to the World Community Grid Help Conquer Cancer distributed computing project. (You can see a presentation by one of the project’s lead scientists, Dr. Igor Jurisica, here.) About a month ago, the Help Conquer Cancer project was enhanced to allow computers’ Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to assist in the analysis of millions of experiments. My own recently enhanced computer has been participating heavily, which caused my worldwide ranking on World Community Grid to rise within a month from about 60,000th place to 26,744th place (updated every half-day) in terms of credits and 15,795th place in terms of results returned. In addition, for the totality of BOINC distributed computing projects, I have risen to the 98.2932nd percentile and a world rank of 42,446 in terms of total credits and the 99.5634th percentile and a world rank of 10,878 in terms of recent average credit. In the United States, I am ranked at 11,802nd place in terms of total BOINC credit earned.
I expect that my computer will continue to run at full capacity during the upcoming weeks, and indefinitely into the foreseeable future.
For your contemplation and enjoyment, I offer here the list of diverse and fascinating articles and videos that have been included in the Resources on Indefinite Life Extension (RILE) page in October and early November of this year.
Articles
– “Nanoparticles Against Aging” – Science Daily and Asociación RUVID – October 3, 2012
– “Nanoparticles can deliver antiaging therapies” – Brian Wang – The Next Big Future – October 4, 2012
– “A Speculative Order of Arrival for Important Rejuvenation Therapies” – Reason – Fight Aging! – October 4, 2012
– “Therapy will use stem cells to heal heart” – Pauline Tam – October 4, 2012
– “Aubrey de Grey on Longevity Science” – Reason – Fight Aging! – October 5, 2012
– “Predicted sequence of Antiaging rejuvenation” – Brian Wang – The Next Big Future – October 5, 2012
– “Researchers use magnets to cause programmed cancer cell deaths” – Bob Yirka – October 8, 2012
– “Lilly Alzheimer’s Drug Slows Mental Decline, Study Finds” – Shannon Pettypiece – October 8, 2012
– “Vitamin Variants Could Combat Cancer as Scientists Unravel B12 Secrets” – ScienceDaily and University of Kent – October 8, 2012
– “Human Immortality: Singularity Summit Looks Forward to the Day That Humans Can Live Forever” – Hamdan Azhar – Policymic – October 2012
– “Drug From Chinese ‘Thunder God Vine’ Slays Tumors in Mice” – Drew Armstrong – Bloomberg – October 17, 2012
– “82 Years of Technology Advances; but best yet to come” – Dick Pelletier – Transhumanity.net – October 25, 2012
– “New you by 2022: biotech enhancements will help you ‘grow young’” – Dick Pelletier – Positive Futurist – October 2012
– “Flu Vaccination May Increase Longevity” – Lyle J. Dennis, M.D. – Extreme Longevity – October 29, 2012
– “Dead as a Doornail?” – Peter Rothman – h+ Magazine – November 1, 2012
– “An Outcast Among Peers Gains Traction on Alzheimer’s Cure” – Jeanne Whalen – Wall Street Journal – November 9, 2012
Videos
Anthony Atala
Anthony Atala at TEDMED 2009
January 21, 2010
Ray Kurzweil
From Eliza Watson to Passing the Turing Test – Singularity Summit 2011
October 25, 2011
Nikola Danaylov
– Ray Kurzweil on Singularity 1 on 1: Be Who You Would Like to Be – October 13, 2012
