WTA News
WTA NEWS May 12, 2005
Friday, May 13, 2005NEWS OF THE WORLD TRANSHUMANIST ASSOCIATION
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Editor: Mike LaTorra - mike99(at)lascruces.com
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To submit news about your chapter or affiliate, or about transhumanism in general, please send it to Editor Mike LaTorra
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CONTENTS:
Message from the Executive Director
News of the WTA
* Hughes and Cordeiro at UN confab on Humanist Bioethics
* Hughes speaks in Des Moines IA, Albany NY, Minneapolis MN
* First WTA action alert and defeat of anti-pet-cloning bill
* Call for Papers for Best Undergraduate H+ Paper
* Job Opening: Assistant Director
* Job Opening: Volunteer Webmaster
* Report on 2005 WTA Members Survey
New Resources
* Video homage to FM2030 (streaming 60mb wmv)
* Artificial Intelligence and Transhumanism leaflet
* Four minute introduction to transhumanism (Flash)
* Are you a Transhumanist? Self-Diagnostic leaflet
Chapter News
* Blog to track spread of transhumanism in Latin America
* Greek Transhumanists make plans
* An international transhumanist meeting in Moscow
* Transhumanist Association of Kenya on the move
Transhumanism in the News
* MSNBC Ponders Post-Humanity
* Hughes in Wired article on augmenting animals
* Hughes in Utne Reader article on the new biopolitics
* Ramez Naam in NeoFiles on human enhancement
* Cory Doctorow reviews Citizen Cyborg in Boing Boing
* Dvorsky in This Magazine and Edmonton Sun on H+
* Bailey reviews Citizen Cyborg in Reason
News of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
* JET 14(1) April 2005 Content and Links
* JET Call for Papers for “Visions of Utopia and Dystopia”
* Recent articles by IEET Fellows and Staff
Events
* Events of H+ interest, May-December 2005
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More...Older News
- Ray Kurzweil wins 2007 H.G. Wells Award for Outstanding Contributions to Transhumanism [ August 03, 2007 ]
- FTA opens a Transhumanist Library [ June 04, 2007 ]
- Report on the 3rd Israeli Transhumanist Seminar [ April 03, 2007 ]
- 1st International Summit of the Planetary Collegium []
- Giulio Prisco at the University of Lausanne [ January 30, 2007 ]
- New WTA Board of Directors [ January 21, 2007 ]
- Calling All Potential TV07 Grassroots Organizers! [ November 27, 2006 ]
- 2007 WTA Board Elections []
- Natasha Vita-More on UK’s AnOtherMan Magazine and Brazil’s FAQ Conference [ November 22, 2006 ]
- What does it mean to be Human? [ November 18, 2006 ]
- The Mormon Transhumanist Association affiliates with the WTA [ November 15, 2006 ]
- WTA News 3 November 2006 [ November 11, 2006 ]
- H.G. Wells Award for Outstanding Transhumanist Contributions of the Year: Charles Stross [ August 24, 2006 ]
- Transvision 2006 Most Successful Yet [ August 21, 2006 ]
- Winner of the 2006 J.B.S. Haldane Award announced []
- Update on the Spanish Apes legislation [ June 14, 2006 ]
- BetterHumans just got better! [ February 24, 2006 ]
- Nouvelles ATQ Jan-Fev 2006 / QTA News Jan-Feb 2006 [ February 08, 2006 ]
- WTA NEWS October 30, 2005 [ October 30, 2005 ]
- Remi Sussan’s “Les Utopies Posthumaines” [ October 19, 2005 ]
- WTA NEWS October 1, 2005 [ October 01, 2005 ]
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- Hyink responds to Thomas’ attack on transhumanism [ December 03, 2004 ]
- Romanian transhumanist wins 2004 best SF short story award []
- UKTA Submits Advisory Brief to UK Commission on Genetics and Reproductive Technology [ November 30, 2004 ]
- WTA NEWS November 18, 2004 [ November 18, 2004 ]
- Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies [ November 13, 2004 ]
- New Institute to Provide Balanced Views on Human Enhancement Technologies [ November 08, 2004 ]
- Transhumanism Evolves in Silence at Transvision 2004 [ August 18, 2004 ]
- Kip Werking wins 2004 JBS Haldane Award for Best Undergraduate Transhumanist Paper [ August 11, 2004 ]
- Aubrey de Grey wins 2004 H.G. Wells Award for Outstanding Transhumanist of the Year []
- UK Transhumanist Association Founded [ July 27, 2004 ]
- J. Hughes’ book Citizen Cyborg available for preorder [ May 17, 2004 ]
- New Transhumanist Blog in Spanish []
- Roy Walford, M.D. (1924-2004) [ April 29, 2004 ]
- WTA NEWS April 26, 2004 [ April 26, 2004 ]
- New Lists for Hungarian, Dominican and Costa Rican Transhumanists [ April 06, 2004 ]
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