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- Human Genome Project (NHGRI)
Government Record · 2003
National Human Genome Research Institute
The National Human Genome Research Institute's history of the Human Genome Project, launched in October 1990 and completed in April 2003.
- ID2020 Alliance Launches Digital ID Program with Bangladesh and Gavi (2019)
Document · 2019
ID2020 Alliance
ID2020's own release on using vaccination and birth registration to give newborns a persistent, portable, biometrically linked digital identity. Partners listed include Accenture, Gavi, Microsoft and…
- Indictment, United States v. Lori Drew, No. 08-cr-00582
Court Filing · 2008
United States Attorney, Central District of California
The indictment alleges a fictitious MySpace identity and the quoted message, followed by account deletion after Drew learned M.T.M. had killed herself.
- Instagram Teen Annotated Research Deck 2
Document · 2021
Meta Platforms
The deck contains the shorthand headline, while its annotations describe perception-based, exploratory research with sampling and generalizability limitations. It was not designed to estimate population-wide causal…
- Internet Trends 2013
Document · 2013
Mary Meeker and Liang Wu
Slide 52 aggregates purpose-specific checks—messaging, calls, time, music, gaming, social media, camera, alarms, news, calendar, web, search, and other activities—and cites TomiAhonen Almanac 2013.
- Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security: Statement About nCoV and Our Pandemic Exercise (2020)
Document · 2020
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
The Event 201 organizers' January 2020 statement that their exercise modeled a fictional coronavirus pandemic and was not a prediction.
- Joint Statement by President Clinton and Prime Minister Blair on Human Genome Research (2000)
Government Record · 2000
William J. Clinton and Tony Blair
Clinton and Blair said raw human genome data should be freely available to scientists everywhere, while also backing patent protection for gene-based inventions.
- Julian Huxley and the Continuity of Eugenics in Twentieth-century Britain
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2014
Paul Weindling
A peer-reviewed history of Julian Huxley's role in the British eugenics movement: Life Fellow of the Eugenics Society from 1925, on its Council from 1931, Vice-President…
- Julian Huxley: New Bottles for New Wine, “Transhumanism” (1957)
Document · 1957
Julian Huxley
Huxley's 1957 book contains the essay that named transhumanism: "man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature."
- Julian Huxley: UNESCO, Its Purpose and Its Philosophy (1946)
Government Record · 1946
Julian Huxley
UNESCO's first director-general, Julian Huxley, wrote the agency's founding philosophy in 1946. In it he says radical eugenic policy would be politically impossible for many years,…
- Kanye West’s Donda Stem Player (2021)
News Report · 2021
Complex
Complex, August 2021: Kanye West's $200 Stem Player let listeners pull apart and remix the vocals, drums, bass and samples on Donda.
- Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret: COVID-19, The Great Reset (2020)
Document · 2020
Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret
Schwab and Malleret's 2020 book says the pandemic moment must be seized to take advantage of a unique window of opportunity to redesign the economy.
- Klaus Schwab: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, What It Means, How to Respond (2016)
Document · 2016
Klaus Schwab
Schwab describes a fusion of technologies blurring the lines between the physical, digital and biological spheres, and says it will change not only what we do…
- Klayman v. Obama, Memorandum Opinion and Preliminary Injunction
Court Filing · 2013
Judge Richard J. Leon, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
The district court granted a preliminary injunction for two plaintiffs and stayed it pending appeal. It did not finally adjudicate the nationwide program.
- Klayman v. Obama, No. 14-5004
Court Filing · 2015
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
The D.C. Circuit vacated the preliminary injunction because plaintiffs had not demonstrated standing, without endorsing the merits of bulk collection.
- Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, Section 33(a) (2011)
Government Record · 2011
Congress of the United States
Federal law since 2011: "no patent may issue on a claim directed to or encompassing a human organism."
- Letter to Julian Knight MP regarding the ICO investigation into Cambridge Analytica
Government Record · 2020
Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner
The ICO found likely political-targeting purposes but could not determine which GSR data was used in a specific campaign. It also found no further evidence changing…
- Light From Self-Luminous Tablet Computers Can Affect Evening Melatonin, Delaying Sleep
Document · 2013
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Wood, Rea, Plitnick, and Figueiro study authors
Thirteen participants used full-brightness tablets. The institutional account reports about 22% suppression after two hours and corneal illuminance ranging from 5 lux, unlikely to affect melatonin,…
- Max More: The Overhuman in the Transhuman (2010)
Document · 2010
Max More
Max More confirms that Nietzsche's ideas influenced his own early transhumanist thinking, while noting where he departs from Nietzsche.
- Max More: Transhumanism, Towards a Futurist Philosophy, EXTROPY #6 (1990)
Document · 1990
Max More
Max More's 1990 essay that launched modern transhumanism quotes Nietzsche's Zarathustra: "I teach you the overman. Man is something that is to be overcome."
- May 1998 NACHGR Meeting Summary
Government Record · 1998
National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research / NHGRI
The 1998 genome council meeting urged every high-throughput sequencing project to release data immediately, with assemblies posted to a public database within 24 hours.
- Media and Young Minds
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2016
Council on Communications and Media, American Academy of Pediatrics
The American Academy of Pediatrics' 2016 policy on media for children under 5: it reviews the possible benefits and the health concerns, and says the research…
- Merchant: Comment on Alden et al. (2022)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2022
Hamid A. Merchant
A published comment arguing the Alden lab result may not happen in the human body and cannot be generalized to healthy people.
- Meta State AGs Consent Judgment
Court Filing · 2026
U.S. District Court, Northern District of California; MDL No. 3047
The entered judgment resolves the states’ claims and incorporates conduct provisions, audits, age assurance, teen limits, parental tools, and payments. It was entered without final adjudication…