I’m not saying there was never any continental drift or that the theory of plate tectonics is completely wrong. It’s pretty obvious that the coast of Brazil seems to match the coast of western Africa. And the world is spreading at the mid-Atlantic rift (where bands of new rock on each side indicate reversed polarity … Continue reading
All around the globe, millions of people still believe the Earth is flat and there is a conspiracy to make us believe it is round. One of these geniuses recently tried to rocket himself up to take high altitude photos as evidence, but surprisingly his rockets failed to work – again. Since looking at the … Continue reading
I don’t like this view of the future: Worshipping Artificial Intelligence. from Wired.com “Anthony Levandowski makes an unlikely prophet. Dressed Silicon Valley-casual in jeans and flanked by a PR rep rather than cloaked acolytes, the engineer known for self-driving cars—and triggering a notorious lawsuit—could be unveiling his latest startup instead of laying the foundations for … Continue reading
The technology to control our brains externally, through wired implants, already exists. Experiments have also advanced methods of wireless control. How long before such power is abused? How long before the methods are mastered and the power to take over a brain against the will of the individual becomes a common form of repression? Simian … Continue reading
I recently read this article in the Huffington Post in which Charles Eisenstein discusses his encounter with The Electric Universe Theory and the almost universal dismissal of it by mainstream scientists who seem to argue: the theory is unacceptable to established ideas, so it isn’t peer reviewed in respectable journal articles; and since it isn’t … Continue reading
“…Brain images are becoming standard evidence in some of the country’s most controversial and disturbing death penalty cases. In March, Barack Obama’s bioethics commission released a report stating that neuroscience is used in about a quarter of capital cases, and that percentage is rising quickly. Lawyers use scans in a few principal ways. Sometimes it’s … Continue reading
From the Huffington Post: “Of all the varied and incredible possibilities presented by the controversial new gene-editing technique known as CRISPR-Cas9, perhaps the most intriguing are efforts to bring animals back from extinction. Candidates for de-extinction, as the process is known, include species like the passenger pigeon (the last one died in captivity in 1914), … Continue reading
Maybe I’m over-reacting. The story is fictional. I usually like good old dystopian sci-fi. This one is set in a post global-warming-ruined world where only 500 million people are left and the narrator whines: “Before the seismic shocks of the great upheavals, people’s movements were unfettered, and they could breathe unfiltered air, roam in the … Continue reading