Cyborgs Like Us
It appears we’re one more step closer to the long-held human dream–or nightmare–depending on your take, to more human-like robots, with the announcement by an Italian team of scientists at the University...
The Carbon Cowboy or Why Frontier Justice Requires Machetes and Spears
It’s not often that I find myself making such a suggestion, but the would would be a better place if Australian real estate developer and moral disease David Nilsson suddenly “disappeared” while...
North Carolina tries to vote away reality
This post is a little dated now, but still worth highlighting in my opinion. In a surprising turn of recent events, the North Carolina legislature voted July 3rd that history is not really...
A Vagina By Any Other Name…
Vagina: noun (plural vaginas or vaginae /-nē, -nī/) the muscular tube leading from the external genitals to the cervix of the uterus in women and most female mammals. Just when you think...
Environmental Security and Global Warming
Back in 2007 the Carnegie Council held a symposium on environmental security, in which a number of academics working or thinking about this question had submitted related papers, with the featured piece...
I want an Ichthyosaurus
Yes that’s right, I want an Ichthyosaurus. I mean, reptile-fish ancient madness, what’s not to love? And it was discovered by Mary Anning, a quite interesting British fossil collector and overlooked but...
