Who needs a digital avatar when you can...uh...have a real person be your avatar ? I'm confused. Wondering what you might look like wi...

Fiction often reflects reality and nowhere is this more true than in Star Trek . The franchise is one giant phantasmagoric projection of hum...

Blog posts can be strange and unpredictable things. There are times when I pour a ton of energy and creativity into a post only to have it l...

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My latest audiocast has been posted here . You can subscribe to this feed . In this episode I discuss the Ashley Treatment , why the disabl...

There is a very strange television commercial running these days that very much highlights the double-standard that exists today in male-fem...

For those of you who missed it, here is the video clip of my segment on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos in which I discuss the futu...

Check out this BBC video where I defend Ashley's parents. This was shot inside the CBC newsroom amid a flurry of activity. We were also...

The Ashley X story is hitting prime time and I have found myself embroiled in this controversy. Back on November 6, 2006 I published the ar...

The The Hour 's special on the future will be broadcast either tonight or tomorrow evening. The producer couldn't be more specific. ...

My latest audiocast has been posted here . You can subscribe to this feed . In this episode I discuss Time Magazine's Person of the Year...

A couple of weeks ago Time Magazine announced its 'Person of the Year' for 2006. Much to everyone's surprise, they awarded you ...

This Far Side comic, which has the caption 'Primitive UFOs' beautifully encapsulates my opinion of UFOlogy -- just substitute oursel...

At the dawn of European humanism, Florentines believed that reading Dante while ignoring science was ridiculous. Similarly, Leonardo da Vinc...

Earlier this year cosmologist Stephen Hawking and his colleague Thomas Hertog of the European Laboratory for Particle Physics at CERN in Ge...

The Dalai Lama would like to see the formation of an International Buddhist Zone . Tom Armstrong discusses the goal of Buddhist practice : ...

The real value of animal experiments was recently put into question by a team of senior scientists who found that many are flawed and do no...

Canadian researchers say they've cured diabetes in mice . A new report says Canada spends more than most industrialized countries on he...

Like any sport, chess is not and will not be immune to the advent of human enhancement. And like other sports, there will be an awkward adju...

There's an excellent map on Maps of War that shows the spread of the major religions over the past 5,000 years. This map makes me wond...