Summer's over, back to blogging

Now that summer is over I plan to get back on track with the blogging. I'd like to keep the posts a bit more focused over the coming months and narrow in on some key areas, namely human enhancement, bioethics, animal welfare (including uplift issues), gender biopolitics and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

I'll also keep working to bring in guest bloggers, so keep an eye out for that.

And as always, I'll keep on speculating about the future of intelligent life.

Sentient Developments wins 3 Blogisattva awards

The 2008 Blogisattva Award winners have been announced - the awards for best Buddhist blogging - and Sentient Developments won three awards:

Best Achievement Blogging on Matters Scientific.

Best Science Blog Post “Perils of a Digital Life.”

Best Engage-the-World Blog Post “Meat eaters are bad people.”

Blogisattva Awards announced

The Blogisattva Awards were announced today and this blog was the winner of two awards: Best Achievement Blogging on Matters Philosophical or Scientific and Best Achievement in Wonderful, Remarkable, Elegant Design.

Congratulations to Bill Harryman for winning Buddhist blog of the year, Integral Options Café.

You can read about all the winners and why they were chosen here.

Latest podcast available

My latest audiocast has been posted here. You can subscribe to this feed.

In this episode I discuss Holocaust deniers and global warming skeptics, the phenomenon of Islamic fascism, and cyber-warfare and the 'blogger threat'.