CANTANIA, Italy (CNN) -- There is no way to stop Europe's highest volcano from erupting, but technology is increasingly helping scientists to prevent natural disasters becoming human tragedies.
Fromkin says there are eight "radical turns" that have brought us from the African forests of millions of years ago to where we are now, among them: becoming human, inventing civilization, developing a conscience and achieving rationality.
The Oslo shindig launched in 2009, and on its way to becoming a human-rights equivalent of the Davos economic forum is the brainchild of Thor Halvorssen, a New York-based film-maker and activist with family roots in Venezuela and Norway.
But as Dr Koza points out, processing power is becoming less expensive all the time, while human designers are becoming scarcer to find and costlier to keep.
They used stem cells from a human embryo, which are capable of becoming any other type of cell in the human body from nerve to skin, muscle to kidney.
America's stance, promoted so passionately by Clinton, is gradually becoming the global standard for human rights.
Long the stuff of science fiction, technology that can directly tap into, augment, and connect human brains is becoming science fact.
In an age where human capital is becoming increasingly important, it is hard to believe that this particular quiet American has it wrong.
The conference participants noted that the need to bolster human intelligence is becoming even more apparent, and often it is local police who are the best sources of such information.
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With allusions to the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and other current events, the video declares, human beings are becoming a collective organism able to influence social change, entrepreneurship, and commerce.
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The second book chronicles his journey as an environmental and human rights activist to becoming a White House policy advisor.
But the story of human development is one of becoming better at coping with them.
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And if so, is it human or machine that is becoming more like the other?
It is a part of Africa at the intersection of the Arab world -- of enormous strategic importance to the West -- and the West African heartland, a region only now becoming more stable after years of unspeakable human tragedy.
The trend will lead to far-out new technologies, such as human-level artificial intelligence, becoming a reality within our lifetimes.
For the first time in human history, it's becoming possible to see how to throw off more sparks and how to make sure that more of them catch fire.
The keepers were also asked to assess how effective each ape was in achieving the human equivalent of goals becoming dominant, winning a mate, or learning to use a tool or toy in a novel way.
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But in the bowels of a particular metropolitan area--where conduits are already becoming choked with thick copper wire--the human-hair-sized glass has almost immediate prospects.
The research team, led by Robert Lanza, took human embryonic stem cells and coaxed them into becoming RPE cells.
Realizing he had bigger ambitions, he enrolled in a university to study human-computer interaction with the intention of becoming a researcher.
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Indeed, the smartphone, which the iPhone was the first decent implementation of, looks like becoming the fastest adopted technology ever in the history of the entire human species so far.
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Ibrahim Ag Idbaltanat, a descendent of slaves himself, born to a black Tuareg family in northeastern Mali, has been championing human rights and equity since the late 1970s, after becoming aware of injustices against families of slave descent by traditional slave masters, including physical violence and the confiscation of both land and herds of cattle.
New York career coach Sarah Stamboulie, who worked in human resources at Morgan Stanley, Nortel Networks and Cantor Fitzgerald before becoming a coach, agrees that it can be effective to make a personal plea for more money.
They took a sample of human skin cells and converted it into stem cells, which are capable of becoming any other type of cell in the body.
Our actions reveal what we have become as human beings and we can develop the more positive side of our humanity by becoming more generous and temperate towards our natural environment.
It ranks with the original human exodus from Africa about 60, 000 years ago, which led to Homo sapiens becoming a global species, and the beginning of the industrial revolution, 250 years ago, when many people stopped being farmers and began to earn their livings in other ways.
In becoming the first Nobel-class economist to advocate the gold standard it suggests that his greatest contribution to human flourishing may lie ahead.
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Bernstein quickly rose through the government ranks, becoming general counsel of the Environmental Protection Agency and, later, general counsel to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The ocean also absorbs almost 25% of the CO2 added to the atmosphere from human activities each year, greatly reducing the impact of this greenhouse gas on the climate, while becoming more acidic in the process.
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