Super Projects: A Billion Oysters, a Time Machine, and a Cure for Aging

Published: May 1, 2017, 11:30 p.m.

b'The Billion Oyster Project\\n\\nThe Billion Oyster Project (BOP) is a long-term, large-scale plan to restore one billion live oysters to New York Harbor over the next twenty years and in the process train thousands of young people in New York City to care for their marine environment.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nPhysicists Just Came Up With a Mathematical Model for a Viable Time Machine\\n\\nPhysicists have come up with what they claim is a mathematical model of a theoretical "time machine" - a box that can move backwards and forwards through time and space.\\n\\nThe trick, they say, is to use the curvature of space-time in the Universe to bend time into a circle for hypothetical passengers sitting in the box, and that circle allows them to skip into the future and the past.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nGoogle is super secretive about its anti-aging research. No one knows why.\\n\\nResearchers are puzzled by Calico\\u2019s stealthiness and say it\\u2019s not good for science.\\n\\nI asked everyone I could about Calico \\u2014 and quickly learned that it\\u2019s an impenetrable fortress. Among the little more than a dozen press releases Calico has put out, there were only broad descriptions of collaborations with outside labs and pharmaceutical companies \\u2014 most of them focused on that overwhelmingly vague mission of researching aging and associated diseases. The media contacts there didn\\u2019t so much as respond to multiple requests for interviews.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nWT 297-606'