Spanish parliament approves 'human rights' for apes (Guardian) Great apes should have the right to life and freedom, according to a...

Beans on a plate with mushrooms Study for Still Life Still Life With Orange Note Tasty abstract minimalism and still life. More about Willia...

The Genetics of Fear (Henry Greely) Sci-fi fantasies about the risks of genetic engineering can't get in the way of life-saving researc...

This Global Show Must Go On (Tyler Cowen - NYT) The last 20 years have brought the world more trade, more globalization and more economic ...

Fred Harper's website .

EU urged to review animal testing (BBC) A world expert on primates, Dr Jane Goodall, has urged Europe to find alternatives to experiments o...

Science fiction author Warren Ellis has written a short and typically trite blog post about what he calls The NerdGod Delusion -- an attack...

What Does It Mean to Be Human? (Wired) A star-studded panel of scientists gathered to discuss those heady themes last night at the World Sc...

SCREECH (More Intelligent Life) Ferrari is putting carbon-ceramic brakes in all its cars. Paul Markillie goes from 160kph to zero in four s...

The future of F1 videogames - exclusive with Codemasters' Rod Cousens (F1) Earlier this month Codemasters secured the exclusive rights ...

Just say no to N = N* fp ne fl fi fc fL . Copyright Lynette Cook I'm surprised how often the Drake Equation is still mentioned when peo...

Anthropologists recently conducted a fly-by over a tribal village in the Envira rain forest near the Brazilian-Peruvian border. It is stron...

Via Andart (Anders called it The Tree and the Singularity ) via Digital Urban .

Where's the beef? Try the lab. (CS Monitor) Researchers attempt to make meat without killing livestock. Posthumans, Rise Up And Destroy...

Oral is Normal (William Saletan - Slate Magazine) The normalization of oral sex. All on the mind (The Economist) Prepare for drugs that wi...

"Man, we've got Mars so heavily instrumented that a surveyor in Martian orbit caught the polar lander *on its way in*." -- Bru...

Physicist Freeman Dyson reviews A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies and Global Warming: Looking Beyond ...

Beyond Belief (The Nation) Religious freedom protects one's right to believe, but too often it has been interpreted as doing no more th...

I saw this ancient artifact on display at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa last week.

Last year at this time I tackled the question: How will our Universe die ? ________________ An interesting theory has emerged which predict...