Cathy Young writes in Reason Online about how difficult it is for American politicians to play the religion card : Given the liberal intel...

David Ritchie has published an interesting piece in the New York Press about doomsday traditions and our own end-times culture. As im...

I received an interesting email today asking for my perspective on the future of human forms: "The main argument in my dissertation th...

This coming Saturday Sep. 25 at 9:00PM EST I will be Jack Landman's guest on Cybercity Radio , to be broadcast on IBC Radio Network Worl...

Given the potential for radically extended lifespans, this issue is sure to become more and more important over the coming decades: ...

The RAND corporation has released the pocket edition survival guide to surviving terrorism: " What You Should Do to Prepare for a...

Writer and philosopher Umberto Eco argues in his latest OpEd that the scientific method is a suitable counterbalance to fundamentalis...

Nothing against wine, but this is possibly the best news I've heard in weeks: Researchers at the University of Western Ontario (...

Man, I love news like this. As bizarre as this may sound, it appears as though the Pioneer 10 and 11 space probes are having a har...

Artificial intelligence researcher Ben Goertzel -- the guy who I'd give the vote for "most likely to develop artificial gene...

The prolific Richard Dawkins has released yet another book, this one on the heels of " A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope...

Conservative bioethicist Margaret Somerville (she hates it when you call her that, but that's what she is), has published an OpEd ...

Jason Silverman of Wired reviews filmmaker Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence , a cyberpunk movie that takes place in ...

WTA executive director James Hughes's book, " Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of...

Another book to put on my "to read" list. This one falls into the "Rare Earth" camp in regards to the Fermi questio...

Omega-3 fatty acids are good for you. Actually, they are very good for you. Omega-3 fatty acids are polyunsaturated fatty acids f...

[allow me to indulge in a fleeting moment of unabashed nationalism] Canada once again reaffirms its hockey supremacy as it wins the 20...

[via Gravity Lens ] John Shirley of Locus Magazine recently asked 6 science fiction writers to speculate about our social future . These w...

Afro-American intellectual and Princeton scholar Cornel West has published his latest book, " Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight...

Nick Bostrom , the Chair of the World Transhumanist Association , has penned a rebuttal in response to Francis Fukuyama's assertion...