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• An uplifting evening with James Hughes

  This past Friday, James Hughes of the World Transhumanist Association (WTA) and Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) was in Toronto. He was a presenter at ideaCity , a neat gathering of eclectic leaders arranged each year in the city. Read More...
  Posted Sunday, June 25, 2006 5:09 PM by Simon / 15 Comments

  Tags: Miscellaneous

• Velomobile test drive: Car of the future?

  A few weeks ago I had talked about velomobiles , and my interest in giving them a shot for commuting to work. Today, I had the chance to test drive a go-one3 velomobile--a red version of the one pictured at right. (As you may recall, I was interested Read More...
  Posted Saturday, June 10, 2006 4:39 PM by Simon / 1 Comments

  Tags: Miscellaneous

• Enter the velomobile

  Yesterday, we had a wildcat transit strike and I was forced to hitchhike into work. This has added to my ongoing frustration with a 45-minute commute by streetcar that takes 15 minutes by car. Annoyed, I began looking into buying a car, which I do sporadically Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, May 30, 2006 12:29 PM by Simon / 14 Comments

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• Take the Life Extension Values Clarification Survey

  Cryonicist Ben Best has prepared a survey "likely to increase your awareness of subjects related to life extension and cause you to re-examine some of your assumptions." If you haven't taken the survey, you might want to give it a shot. Regardless, you Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:13 AM by Simon / 2 Comments

  Tags: Miscellaneous