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[LINK] Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

A new popular science book on existential risks and mass extinctions from Annalee Newitz, the founding editor of io9.com It probably won't

[LINK] Climate change and food security

A Guardian article on the impact of climate change on food security. This is worrying (albeit perhaps not a global catastrophic (or existent

[Link] Immortality Project

An interesting article on the Immortality Project at UC Riverside. This is the website. This seems like something for LWers to look into -

[Link] Colonisation of Venus

I was wondering what people thought of this paper by Geoffrey Landis on colonising Venus. In it he suggests that cloud-top Venus is one of t

Recommended reading on the ethics of Animal Cognitive Enhancement

Does anyone have recommendations of good things to read on the ethics of animal cognitive enhancement? By this I mean applying various metho