Ah, some real bioethics courtesy of the The American Journal of Bioethics . University of Waterloo's Colin Farrelly has published his pa...

I've received a number of emails addressing my latest column for Betterhumans, Evolving Towards Telepathy . I've gotten an interesti...

Some very quick notes about TransVision : - Reason science correspondent Ronald Bailey is a definite maybe for TV04 - I just found out fr...

My latest column for Betterhumans has been posted: Evolving Towards Telepathy -- Demand for increasingly powerful communications technolog...

My obituary for John Maynard Smith has been published on Betterhumans: Visionary Biologist Foresaw Transhuman Future Dead at 84, John Ma...

Astrobiology Magazine has an interview with cosmologist Michio Kaku, who considers the physics of extraterrestrial civilizations and wheth...

I'm in the process of writing an obituary for evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith who died at the age of 84 last week. Look for t...

Transhumanist philosopher Nick Bostrom has penned a fairy tale, The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant , that exposes the wastefulness of death and ...

I stumbled across some great quotes by H. G. Wells today: "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastroph...

Earlier this week I mentioned the latest speakers to come aboard TV04 , including Mike LaTorra, Sonia Miller, Tihamer Toth-Fejel, Michael An...

Back in March I had an exchange with Damien Broderick in which I complained about the aloof attitude given to the killing of non-human ani...

Futurologist J.R. Mooneyham, writing in " The Rise and Fall of Star Faring Civilizations in Our Own Galaxy ," has some interesting...

Here's an important paper from 1999: Robert J. Bradbury speculates about how advances in computer science and programming technologies ...

A new study suggests that the peak in star formation occurred about 5 billion years ago, just prior to the formation of our own Sun 4.6 bil...

I've been chatting with Ben Hyink about TV04 . Ben is as much at home with secular humanism as he is with transhumanism; his work often ...

Some more confirmed speakers for TransVision 2004 : Mike LaTorra, Sonia Miller (look for her Betterhumans column later this week), Tihamer ...

Current Music Rotation: - Air: Talkie Walkie - Boards of Canada: Music Has a Right to Children & Geogaddi [these guys are my latest o...

John Smart recently sent me this email: Hi George, Below are two six page essays for a four volume series on the future (Tackling To...

In his Telegraph article " EU Law on Eugenics Attacks Our Freedom ," English geneticist Steve Jones argues that a recent clause in...

I've discovered an excellent science-only search engine: Scirus .