Vladimir Kramnik had to play tough against Deep Fritz today to salvage a draw. Fritz, despite playing black and being down a pawn for most o...

Mirror, Mirror : Evidence that psychology, like biology, is conserved between human and nonhuman species augurs a shake-up for science and s...

"You might try looking at all the stuff that comes up in your head as just a secretion. All our thoughts and feelings are a kind of sec...

Vladimir Kramnik, who otherwise played an excellent and aggressive game against Deep Fritz today, blundered in Game 2 at move 34 by not see...

Yesterday was game one of the Vladimir Kramnik - Deep Fritz match-up . There are six games scheduled, with Kramnik looking to claim the mill...

When I listen to George W. Bush speak I’m amazed that he can string several words together. The guy comes across as an absolute dolt. His of...

Starting late next year, newborn babies in Ontario will be tested for cystic fibrosis in addition to 27 other diseases. Early detection of ...

A group of philosophers which include such transhumanist thinkers as Robin Hanson, Nick Bostrom, Hal Finney, Peter McCluskey and Eliezer Yud...

Now that same-sex marriage is all but passé as a hot-button topic, the latest rising civil sociopolitical star is the contentious issue of ...

Reclusive writer Robert Persig, author of the seventies bestseller Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , is interviewed by the Guardi...

Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which two or more bodily senses are paired. Individuals with this condition are, for example, ab...

The best chess player who is made out of meat is set to compete against Deep Fritz in a 6-game tournament starting Saturday November 25 in...

As a SL user, I knew something like CopyBot was going to happen eventually; I'm surprised it's taken this long. There are some very...

Canada has embarrassed itself terribly at the UN's global warming conference in Nairobi, Kenya . Conservative environment Minister Rona...

I'll start off today's Buddha Break with some quotes: "The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcen...

I was recently interviewed by Alcor for an upcoming Cryonics Magazine article on the ethics of cryonics. Here's a sneak peak: Accordin...

The Terasem Foundation has published its latest edition of The Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness . An abbreviated version of my anim...

One of the cases I make in my animal uplift paper, " All Together Now ," is that biological uplift is related to the phenomenon of...

Along the lines of what I'm doing with the 'Buddha Break,' I'm going to start blogging regularly about sci-tech, and bioethi...

Stephen Batchelor analyzes boredom from the Buddhist perspective; he's also following the Dharma while in the war zone . Meditation tip...