Check out this New Scientist video featuring Anders Sandberg, Nick Bostrom and Aubrey de Grey. Topics discussed include transhumanism, whol...

In the 'better late than never' category comes New Scientist 's review of TransVision 2007 . The article, titled " Death sp...

There are a set of questions below that are all of the form, "The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is ...". Copy the question...

Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People by John Harris Book Description: Decisive biotechnological interventions in t...

Now that's what I call a radical body modification.

From Frank Stratford's Space Review article, " Our potential in space ": So why would humans want to explore or live in such ...

Some items that recently caught my attention: The Do-It-Yourself Home of the Future -- Nanobots Included ( WorldChanging ) Buzzwords for th...

This could actually be used as an argument against animal uplift ;-)

Technology Review talks to biologist Ian Wilmut about his cloning plans for the future: Research mixing human and animal eggs and sperm ha...

Martin C. Libicki of the RAND Corporation has written a report about the potential for conquest in cyberspace . Libicki argues that many fe...

Ugh, I can't believe this: NBC is about to air a new special called Phenomenon that will feature "mystifier" Criss Angel and ...

The latest edition of Science & Spirit takes a look at modern gender politics and potential future sociological and medical issues. Top...

The Greens seem to be the only party in Ontario that gets it right now. Oh, and if you're in Ontario, vote MMP (Mixed-Member Proportio...

"Don't believe me, don't believe anybody, don't accept anything based on tradition. Don't believe anything based on the...

"Biologically based technological civilization...is a fleeting phenomenon limited to a few thousand years, and exists in the universe i...

Oh, wait a minute, this one can....well, sorta:

Wired 's Ted Greenwald interviews Ridley Scott about the upcoming re-release of Blade Runner . Excerpt: Wired: Some of that ambiguity g...

Ronald Bailey's recent article, " Climate Change Confabs ," brought to my attention Canada's rather lackadaisical and irre...

The controversy surrounding Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent visit to the United States reminded me of an article I wrote a little over a ye...

A number of SentDev readers put me to task on my claim that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should have been arrested upon his recen...