January 31, 2006

New podcast available [31-Jan-06]

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The latest Sentient Developments podcast is now available. Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/PodcastSentDev Tags: Podcast , Audiocast , ...
January 30, 2006

BBC: analytic couples produce autistic children

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The BBC is reporting on a report by Simon Baron-Cohen who claims that analytical couples, namely scientific types, may be more likely to p...

People are eating better -- just ask Kraft

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Kraft Foods -- the largest U.S. food manufacturer and the maker of Kraft cheese, Nabisco crackers, Oscar Mayer meats and Post cereals -- an...

The malevolence and gross negligence of the Bush Administration

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NYT: Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him : The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him fr...

Guardian: There is no stop button in the race for human re-engineering

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Madeleine Bunting has written a piece for the Guardian in which she describes the inexorable tendency towards transhumanism . Bunting notes ...
January 27, 2006

Omega-3

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RAND Study Finds No Link Between Consuming Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Lower Incidence of Cancer : Consuming food or dietary supplements such as...
January 26, 2006

Mikko Rauhala is unarmed, dangerous and transhumanist

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Six Degrees , a Finnish magazine that publishes in the English language, has interviewed activist Mikko Rauhala , a Finnish transhumanist, v...

ABC reports on cryonics bound couple

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ABC has a little report on a couple who has recently signed up for cryonic suspension with Alcor Life Extension Foundation . Typical of the...
January 25, 2006

Change is good

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I've changed my blog template (again). I got tired of working with such a dark site. I think this works a bit better and I hope you like...

2005: Warmest year in over a century

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Zimmer: Return of the puppet masters

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Carl Zimmer of Corante has written a piece about mind viruses. No, not memes -- real, biological parasites that may be altering emotional s...

Buddha on the Brain

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"As much as the Dalai Lama enjoys dabbling in science, he has a greater purpose: to alleviate suffering. Buddhism has an extensive t...

Bostrom's letter from utopia

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Transhumanist Nick Bostrom has penned a Letter From Utopia . The letter is written from the perspective of a potential future self who hope...

The Web: a new mind for an old species

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Back in August of 2005, Kevin Kelly wrote a highly detailed and fascinating account of the World Wide Web for Wired . Titled We Are the Web ...
January 23, 2006

James Lovelock's Gaian despair

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James Lovelock , an independent scientist, author, researcher and environmentalist, has written an OpEd for the Independent Online that is...
January 20, 2006

David Deutsch has revamped his website

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Quantum physicist David Deutsch has finally updated his Website . He's doing a bit of blogging now and has some links to his articles. D...

Quantum communication and SETI

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It's conceivable that radio signals may not be the preferred form of communication for ETI's. Rather, quantum communication may b...
January 19, 2006

Stephen Batchelor's Agnostic Buddhism

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Stephen Batchelor is a Buddhist scholar and philosopher who has promoted the idea of an agnostic or existential Buddhism in favour of the he...
January 18, 2006

New podcast available

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The latest Sentient Developments podcast is now available. Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/PodcastSentDev Tags: Podcast , Audiocast , ...

Dalai Lama: The Universe in a Single Atom

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I'm not a huge fan of Tibetan Buddhism (I'm more partial to the existentialist Buddhism of Stephen Batchelor ), but this looks very ...