We Alone on Earth

A few days ago, Evan Selinger wrote an article on Augmented-Reality Racism which has been (unfortunately) gaining some traction around the...

Science in the 20th century produced miracles. Physicists discovered the fundamental building blocks of the universe, chemists invented almo...

This past weekend (Dec 3-4), I attended the Transforming Humanity: Fantasy? Dream? Nightmare? Conference hosted by the Center for Inquiry,...

Over at [this] foum I noticed the following comment #10, which plays into some recent thoughts I've been having : "Evidence-based ...

This previous post on the goals of neuroscience (and the ensuing flamewar) got me thinking. What is it that I am trying to do? I'll fr...

Was oscillating online, came across this, with an interesting quotation: "Nothing dates the past like its impressions of the future....

In the late 18th century, English society underwent a major structural change: the enclosure of the commons. The enclosure movement effecti...

Kenna - Hell Bent (Official Music Video) . Watch more top selected videos about: Kenna Long term effects of ze goggles have not been adequat...

Yes, it has come to this : the prestigious scientific journal Nature mentions, by name, Limbaugh, Fox News, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, as ...

I recently got an opportunity to speak with Steve Daniels, author of " Making Do ", about making a business out of making things o...

I am not at all qualified to discuss issues of brains, but I do have some thoughts the previous post about society that deserve their own th...

This article claims that they are , and that cities are going to be in the driving seat in the 21st century. I feel like actually it's ...

From the New York Times Magazine . ...As broadband brought millions of facts, the fantasy of perfect factuality and the satisfaction of fact...

Recently I read an article in The American Spectator entitled America's Ruling Class-And the Peril's of Revolution . I disagreed pow...

This is my first post here, so hello people, I'm some guy and I've previously lived here . This spring break I spent the week visit...

There's been a fair amount of talk bandied about about post scarcity economies (see Cory Doctorow-Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom ). ...