[tt] [x-risk] New apoco-porn on CBS: 11th Hour

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: "Hughes, James J." <James.Hughes at trincoll.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 09:02:07 -0400
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Subject: [x-risk] New apoco-porn on CBS: 11th Hour
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With excellent background resource list:

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/eleventh_hour/brave_the_new_world/

The Eleventh Hour

Premieres October 9, 9/10 ET/PT

Humankind has survived devastation: Famine. Plague. Predators. Insects.
Wildfire. Floods. Hurricanes. All take their tolls, but we have learned
to overcome the destructive forces of nature. Medicine wages war against
disease. Pesticides replace blight with abundance. Fire brigades
extinguish raging fires, saving cities.

Now, humankind has entered a new era. An era in which the balance is
reversed. Where humankind and nature are at war. An era in which
civilization threatens itself more than nature: genetic manipulation,
cloning, eugenics, nuclear proliferation, viral superbugs, global
warming. 

Will the planet endure? Can nature survive man? Can man persist in this
brave new world?

Promo videos:
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/eleventh_hour/video/


Explore the Brave New World:

Genetic Modification

What is Genetic Modification?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8p7M0WF_7A&feature=related

Genetically Modified Crops: Food or Poison?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9SywTI3jsI&feature=related

Australia Green-Lights GM Crops
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKPrcKsK4kw&feature=related

Genetic Manipulation: Pros and Cons
http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/genetic-manipulation.html

Designing Savants: The Genius of Science

The Smartest Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfDEAIszuQI&feature=related

What is Savant Syndrome?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT1gZj4M4gI&feature=related

Savant Syndrome: An Extraordinary Syndrome
http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant_syndrome/overview_of_savan
t_syndrome/synopsis

Eugenics: Goodbye to the Inadequate

The War on the Weak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEEZXxFPHxo

Welcome to the Eugenics Movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrZWGLxgzpc&feature=related

Hello, Brave New World
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dh23eu.html

Eugenics, Take Two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU3YFZlXaag

Flesh-Eating Bacteria: Disease Evolved

A New Enemy
http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/necrotizing-fasciitis-flesh-eating-ba
cteria-topic-overview

Super Soldiers: The Future of Warfare

Keep 'em Up. Keep 'em Running.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/01/05/1041566309313.html

Extreme Experimentation
http://www.ufodigest.com/supersoldier.html

Cloning

Pet Regeneration is Finally Here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skkX2x77GCE

Related Stories

Building a Human Heart Valve
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/top10/article/0,30583,1686204_168
6252_1690939,00.html

The Nature of Medical 'Miracles'
http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/25/medical.miracles.ap/

Woman Survives Internal Decapitation
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/health/13286533/detail.html

Nikon Sandulyak: Celebrating the Gift of Sight
http://www.sacmag.com/media/Sacramento-Magazine/April-2005/Medical-Mirac
les/

Gravitational Wave Detector Detects Gravity's Ripples
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5111642.stm

Family Walks on All Fours
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0308_060308_all_fours.ht
ml

Stroke Victim Suddenly Speaks With Strange Accent
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080703-foreign-accent.html

The Kanzius Machine: A Cancer Cure?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/10/60minutes/main4006951.shtml

Single Boulder May Prove Antarctica, North America Once Connected
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111911

Computer Program Reveals Anyone's Ancestry
http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111388

Arthritis to Diabetes: Scientists Unlock Secrets of Genetic Diseases
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/top10_unexplained_phenomena.html

Drug Causes Surgery Complications
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/5184954.stm

Cloned Cats Glow
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/12/13/514602.aspx

Scientists Breed Transparent Frogs
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21084239/

Potatoes May Hold Key To Alzheimer's Treatment
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080815170629.htm

New Bird Species Discovered In Gabon, Africa
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080815130415.htm

Brain Scanners Can See Your Decisions
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/mind_decision

Invisibility Cloak a Step Closer
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7553061.stm

Random Amnesia
http://www.rd.com/living-healthy/i-will-remember/article53660.html


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