Why does it matter? Well, it matters to me. In my previous post I raised the implications of the atheist bus, but it's not just that. At...

Over at Metamagician and the Hellfire Club , I've been blogging about the atheist bus. For those who don't know about it, there'...

Apropos of Russell Blackford's recent posts about the Fermi Paradox, it should be mentioned that the Milky Way is 50% larger than pre...

Bioethicist and philosopher Peter Singer has posted an OpEd for The Guardian in which he reflects on the 30th anniversary of the first IVF...

The most disgusting U.S. presidency in memory is finally and mercifully coming to an end and it would be remiss of me to not make mention of...

Where were we? This year we have Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species . It...

Fermi's paradox I'm sure my readers are familiar with Fermi's paradox . Some of you may even feel it's debated to death late...

This month's New Scientist features a cover article about the theoretic possibility that our universe may be a giant hologram . This re...

" I was responsible for vision-based navigation of the robot within the hallways. I used the vanishing points from the parallel lines p...

The results of the Humanity+ (formerly World Transhumanist Association) Board elections came in yesterday and I was successfully voted in. ...

There's a good transhumanist-themed article by Rebecca Sato at The Daily Galaxy (which I highly recommend). Sato wonders if it would b...

Starting next week I'll be introducing a new feature on Sentient Developments : guest bloggers. Each month I will invite a writer and th...

As scientists delve deeper and deeper into the unsolved mysteries of the universe, they are discovering that a number of cosmological param...

Jeff Giles of Rotten Tomatoes has put together a list of what he believes to be the top ten sci-fi films for the thinking man : 10. Planet ...

Via James Hughes: "We have eleven very distinguished transhumanists running for the eight open Board seats, from the US, Canada, Franc...

Board elections are coming up for Humanity+ (aka H+) and I've decided to throw my name into the hat. For those who may be out of the lo...

Tip of the hat to Jeriaska.

Ian MacKenzie of Brave New Traveler talks to Jason Silva , a 26-year old film maker and outspoken immortalist. MacKenzie asks, "You qu...