Sir Martin Rees , Royal Society professor of astronomy at Cambridge University, agrees that it is now possible to conceive of computers so p...

Sci-Fi author Simon Funk has released an excellent short story that he has made available for free over the Internet. The story is called ...

If you want to understand how something works you should model it the best way you can. This is precisely what IBM and the Brain and Mind In...

It's official: Simon Smith , the editor-in-chief of Betterhumans and my good friend, is now signed up with Alcor . I was present when h...

I went to a meditation class today that was organized by my yoga instructor. The yogi who conducted the class had over 30 years experience a...

Bruce Klein of the Immortality Institute was kind enough to send me some links related to the Terasem Movement 's 2nd Annual Workshop ...

I finally got around to seeing Darren Aronofsky ’s excellent metaphysical sci-fi flick, π (or "Pi"). Shot in grainy and over-expo...

Grey matter from around the Web: John Searle : " Minding The Brain " "After having been neglected for most of the twentieth c...

[I’m writing this article at the risk of venturing awfully close to the world of parapsychology . I've included several links and refere...

Jamais Cascio has just given birth to a new term, ' cognitively modified organisms ,' or CMO's for short. It's exactly what...

Despite grandiose and cocksure proclamations to the contrary, consciousness is still a hard problem in science. Aside from (currently) untes...

Business Week has published a special report on what it calls ' Karma Capitalism .' As the caption reads, "Times have changed ...

The Russian Space Agency announced today that it can "repel" asteroids to save the Earth from devastating impacts. They didn'...

USA Todays's science correspondant Dan Vergano has posted a nice article summarizing a recent paper on the Fermi Paradox published by ...

Richard Dawkins's latest anti-religious crusade is saturating the media. I hope his name starts to carry the same weight here in North A...

I can't wait to read this: Astrophysical Fine Tuning, Naturalism, and the Contemporary Design Mark Walker with Milan M. Cirkovic, in Int...

The latest CyborgYogi audiocast has been posted by James Hughes and Matthew Falkowski. The Cyborg and the Yogi is a bi-weekly podcast on th...

The Vatican recently backed down from its rabid anti-evolution stance in favour of an opinion more in line with intelligent design, but one ...

Author James Martin has published a new book, The Meaning of the 21st Century . The book's tagline reads, "An urgent plan for ensur...

This political ad featuring Michael J. Fox reminded me that when we talk about the development of medical biotechnologies, we're actuall...