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Read "Effects of microgravity on human iPSC-derived neural organoids on the International Space Station", coauthored by our Jeanne F. Loring.

Fri, 01 May 2026 22:40:40 CDT

Read "Effects of microgravity on human iPSC-derived neural organoids on the International Space Station", coauthored by our Jeanne F. Loring.

Read "Why the Elites Need You to Fear AI" by our Ahmed Bouzid.

Fri, 01 May 2026 21:18:22 CDT

Read "Why the Elites Need You to Fear AI" by our Ahmed Bouzid.

For all the fretting and the hand wringing about artificial intelligence, it is worth stepping back for a moment and noticing what is quietly (or not so quietly) changing in the background.

Much of the public conversation fixates on the risks AI introduces. That focus is justified. In the hands of unbridled corporate giants that already control the political class, artificial intelligence becomes almost inevitably a weapon of mass destruction. To argue otherwise is to drift into irrationality and ignore a basic truth: Power behaves like power.

But the conversation often misses a more fundamental shift: The barriers that once determined who could create, who could build, and who could be heard are eroding at a speed that would have been difficult to imagine even a decade ago. This shift is making the privileged and the elites — the so-called 9.9% — very uncomfortable.

Camisha L. Simmons joins our Legal Board.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:42:15 CDT

Camisha L. Simmons joins our Legal Board. Camisha is Founder and Managing Member of Simmons Legal PLLC, a certified woman-owned, minority-owned, and veteran-owned business transactional and civil dispute resolution and litigation law firm based in Dallas, Texas with a by-appointment office in New York, New York.

Gregg Li, outgoing President and founding CEO of the Orion Astropreneur Space Academy (OASA) in Hong Kong, joins our Space Settlement Board.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:12:56 CDT

Gregg Li, outgoing President and founding CEO of the Orion Astropreneur Space Academy (OASA) in Hong Kong, joins our Space Settlement Board.

Read "Old Centrioles Make Old Bodies" by our Jaba Tkemaladze.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:15:22 CDT

Read "Old Centrioles Make Old Bodies" by our Jaba Tkemaladze.

The paradox of organismal aging in the face of continuous cellular turnover remains a central question in biology. This article proposes a novel, integrative hypothesis: the non-renewed, asymmetrically inherited mother centriole in adult stem cells serves as a cumulative damage sensor and a primary driver of aging.

Listen to the audio book "AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable" by our Roman V. Yampolskiy.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:33:22 CDT

Listen to the audio book "AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable" by our Roman V. Yampolskiy.

Read "The Prospect of a Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence: Agency and Value Alignment" by our Carlos Montemayor.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:05:49 CDT

Read "The Prospect of a Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence: Agency and Value Alignment" by our Carlos Montemayor.

Read "AI Designing Tomorrow: A Guide to Futures Literacy, AI Wisdom, and Purposeful Living" by our Salman Khatani.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:29:40 CDT

Read "AI Designing Tomorrow: A Guide to Futures Literacy, AI Wisdom, and Purposeful Living" by our Salman Khatani.

Read "Non-Axiomatic Logic: A Model of Intelligent Reasoning" by our Pei Wang.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:09:20 CDT

Read "Non-Axiomatic Logic: A Model of Intelligent Reasoning" by our Pei Wang.

Read "Futureproofing Humanity: Existential Risk and the Technomyths of Human Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Future among the Stars" by our Robert M. Geraci.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:56:53 CDT

Read "Futureproofing Humanity: Existential Risk and the Technomyths of Human Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Future among the Stars" by our Robert M. Geraci.

Read "Profitable AI Data Build Could Be an Enduring Mobilization With 18+% GDP Growth" by our Brian Wang.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:28:39 CDT

Read "Profitable AI Data Build Could Be an Enduring Mobilization With 18+% GDP Growth" by our Brian Wang.

Read the paper "Harmful Traits of AI Companions", coauthored by our W. Bradley Knox.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:09:37 CDT

Read the paper "Harmful Traits of AI Companions", coauthored by our W. Bradley Knox.

Read the paper "Are AI Machines Making Humans Obsolete?" by our Matthias Scheutz.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:04:09 CDT

Read the paper "Are AI Machines Making Humans Obsolete?" by our Matthias Scheutz.

Join the Zero G Crew on August 26th in Bordeaux, France, curated by our Christina Korp.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:29:58 CDT

Join the Zero G Crew on August 26th in Bordeaux, France, curated by our Christina Korp.

Christina is offering an incredible once in a lifetime chance to fly in zero gravity with 3 astronauts: Charlie Duke - Apollo 16 Moonwalker, 10th man to walk on the Moon; Nicole Stott - NASA astronaut, aquanaut and artist; and Jean-Francois Clervoy - ESA astronaut, Cofounder of Air ZeroG. This is most likely Charlie Duke’s Last Zero Gravity flight. It’s going to be a very special gathering.

This is one of the ONLY zero gravity flights available in the entire world for the next year. What an opportunity to walk in lunar gravity with a real Moonwalker. Flip, float, and fly with astronauts like in space, without going to space. It’s not a simulation, it’s real!

And to top it off there is a VVIP 3 night stay for a select few to stay with the astronauts and the team at a private chateau with a wine tasting day, Michelin star dinner, and more. Watch this promo video!

The International Longevity Summit Africa (ILSA) 2026 will be held August 13-15 at the Shaggar Institute of Technology, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:42:55 CDT

The International Longevity Summit Africa (ILSA) 2026 will be held August 13–15 at the Shaggar Institute of Technology, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Our Chogwu Abdul, Aubrey de Grey, Nadine Hoosen, Íféányí Òkéké, Ósìnàkáchì Ákùmà Kálù, Joel I. Osorio, Jasmine Smith, James Strole, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking.