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A systematic review of 37 randomized controlled trials showed promising evidence for the ability of yoga to improve cardiovascular and metabolic health, but found no significant difference in the effectiveness of yoga versus aerobic exercise. Yoga showed significant improvement in body mass index, systolic blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; and significant changes in body weight, diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, triglycerides, and heart rate. read more.
Essays by Harold Cohen Harold Cohen has written many papers, articles, chapters, and presentations about his work surrounding AARON. They are reprinted here (in Adobe Acrobat format). Click here if you need the free Acrobat Reader software. Click here to return to the AARON History page. © 2001 Kurzweil CyberArt Technologies, Inc.
The Ray Kurzweil Reader is a collection of essays by Ray Kurzweil on virtual reality, artificial intelligence, radical life extension, conscious machines, the promise and peril of technology, and other aspects of our future world. These essays, published  from 2001 to 2003, are now available as a PDF document for convenient downloading and offline reading. The 30 essays, organized in seven topic areas (such as “How to Build a Brain”), cover subjects ranging from a review of Matrix Reloaded to “The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine” and “Human Body Version 2.0.” Click here to download The Ray Kurzweil Reader (Acrobat Reader 5.0 or later required; PDF file, 4.4 MB).
304 9 I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest. --Alan Cox Kurzweil gives a 147 page review of his predictions. Should you read it? How would you grade yourself if you had a chance to write your own report card? Ray Kurzweil is giving himself a high B. With his recent essay How My Predictions Are Faring the noted futurist reviews forecasts he made more than a decade ago for our current times. His predicted future is now the present, so it's time to see how he did. The report looks at 147 predictions that Kurzweil made in his 1999 book The Age of Spiritual Machines, and goes on to briefly explore comments in The Age of Intelligent Machines (1990) as well as his more recent The Singularity is Near (2005). Of the 147 predictions Kurzweil maintains that 115 were 'entirely correct', 12 'essentially correct', and 17 'partially correct, with just 3 being outright wrong. Counting only the entirely and essentially correct, Kurzweil claims an accuracy of 86%. The report, dated October 2010 and now widely available on the web, has sparked heated discussions on various tech forums. I've read How My Predictions Are Faring and have drawn my own conclusions about Kurzweil's prowess: If you're pouring over each of the 147 statements and debating their accuracy then you're probably wasting your time. When it comes to evaluating predictions, I'm not sure we're doing it right. Before I Cop Out, A Review For years, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the foremost futurists in the public arena. He predicted the fall of the Soviet Union, and the rise of the internet. He's also predicted the rise of artificial intelligence and the eventual union of man and machine to occur in the 21st century. While he didn't coin the term 'Singularity', he has brought the concept of an exponential growth in technology to the masses through books.