Last Saturday we globally celebrated Earth Day and shared our Letter to Humanity with the world. Available in over twenty-five languages, we called on our readers to share, copy, translate and further distribute the letter. However, “amongst all languages, one version was sadly missing” wrote us Gijs Ockeloen, who provided a translation in Morse Code. “Please make this important message accessible to the shrinking but not yet extinct morse-community!” he asked. Ockeloen worked as a telegraphist for the Royal Netherlands Army in 1979, where he learned to communicate with Morse Code. We thank Gijs for his contribution and gladly share his Letter to Humanity version. Is your language missing? Send your translation, we will add it with your name on lettertohumanity.org.

Behold a new breed of robotic animal spies (not to be mistaken with real animal spies). Developed by the BBC to capture wildlife, these ” anatomic spy creatures” use computerized motors to mimic the natural movement of their real-life counterparts and blend into their newly adopted habitats on a mission to capture animal emotions.

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Today we globally celebrate Earth Day. What better occasion to read and share the Letter to Humanity written for all of us by NNN director Koert van Mensvoort? Humanity is at a crossroads, there are two paths along which our relationship with technology can develop: a dream or a nightmare. That’s why the Letter to Humanity urges us, humans, not to be slaves or victims of our own technology, but rather to use it to enhance our life on this planet.

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Before globally celebrate Earth Day tomorrow, Koert van Mensvoort visits NPO Radio 1 for an interview about his Letter to Humanity. Speaking as “the optimist”, Koert admits his reservations about humanity’s role on Earth, but at the same time he convincingly believes in our succeeding. Humanity is at a crossroads, are we the first superfluous species on this planet? Or can we develop a new perspective in which we use technology to enhance our humanity? Hence his Letter to Humanity. Tune in to NPO Radio 1.

Drones are versatile in their capabilities, they expand possibilities and increase efficiency on tasks that could otherwise take a lot more to accomplish. In cases of rescuing, this efficiency it’s a matter of life and death.

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Want to become a “plant-org”, half plant half human? This might soon be possible thanks to a new engeneering technique. Scientists are developing a new approach in tissues regeneration to replace damaged human heart tissues with decelluralized spinach leaves.

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