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The secret world of mind control (posted with permission).

Try to relax. This will feel a little weird. — Morpheus

SciFoo day two, whatcha’ gonna do?

10:00
•Micro air vehicles indoors with demo. MIT micro air vehicles group
•The post-antibiotic era.
•How to model & design whole cells (unplugged)
•Science of the “impossible” (invisibility mind reading, light-driven cancer treatment & more!)
•Painting with blood dancing with DNA – biology on screen and canvas. Biology’s movement into art & entertainment. interactive music & biology with Bjork. Viruses as doilies, blood paintings. Bio form sculpture
•BEL: Biological Expression Languages. An expressive shorthand for capturing biology in a computational format. .
•Hold a piece of Mars and one of the oldest materials
•”Lightning Talks”
1.uniform coatings from asymmetric particles.
2.A communications primer.
3.Autistics in Science.
4.Network Interventions.
5.De-extraction.
6.Stem cells to fund the genome
•Thin film, comms, autism, networks, de-extinction, and more”

11:00
•Trip to a black hole movies!
Deepflight. Deep ocean space now open!!! Who goes first? What is best use? Sub all ready to go.
•So you built an awesome tool. How do you get people using it????
•Virtual you! Medical patient records as simulations predicting your future health. {Medical, technical, social, financial} challenges. p.s. I’ll show image data and cool visualizations to start out
•The coming age of brain decoding.
•Rebooting science communication.
•Radical shifts in relations with life, art, & biology.
•Crowdsourcing science (discussion).
•Donating health data – medical, devices, consent.

12:00
•How the languages we speak shape the ways we think and what should we do about it?
•Beyond Turing machines.
•Public participation in scientific research aka citizen science
•Where are the null results? Science is positively biased. Can or should we fix this?
ZomBees Why do they do what they do? Are parasites controlling us all?
•Catastrophe planning & recovery (as a cool tech hobby!) Vernor Vinge
•Implanting bionic eye device – transformation technology, implications, interaction, performance. Surgery free version
•Currents in Neuro vascular Disease – Alzheimer’s, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s

5 responses to “SciFoo Mind Meld”

  1. then he jacks into the Matrix…
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    I have used one of those mind clamps
    Mind Control

  2. Elevator pitch… on the LCD screen shirt
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    George was walking around with the sleep cycle monitor projecting real-time to the chest screen:
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    Why during daytime? He has narcolepsy. So in the group sessions, people could keep an eye on his engagement. At one point he did fall asleep… and he woke up and found himself speaking to the group.

  3. Google was the host playground. O’Reilly just wrapped the closing session with: “Our greatest hope that over the next year, you will find sprouting flowers from the nutrients of scifoo”

    Google Flowers

    Another speaker: Scifoo expresses "the childlike awe of wanting to make the world better.”

    Microbiome metabolites: “20% of what’s in your blood is from the bacteria in your gut.”

    Autism studies: “scientists can play an anti-eugenics role.”

  4. Cooool, aren’t we in matrix already? "Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."

  5. A wave of the future…Very interesting stuff…High end geeky!

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