Michael Anissimov is guest blogging this month. One of the many useful terms that George has popularized is "Gainism" -- "re...

Good news for Battlestar Galactica fans: the new Caprica series is excellent. I finally caught the two-hour pilot and was quite impressed w...

There's an upcoming show that people in the New York area may be interested in: Shane Hope: Your Mom Is Open Source June 26 – August 1, ...

She is the size of an infant, has all her baby teeth and exhibits the mental capacity of a toddler. Trouble is, she's 16 years old. Broo...

This illustration appears to show green and blue spirals, but in fact the apparent green and blue are exactly the same colour. More about t...

There are a large number of forces at work in the Universe, some more powerful than others -- and I'm not talking about the four fundame...

" In sorting priorities, I adopt what I term the central principle of cultural evolution, which I refer to as the Intelligence Principl...

From the four corners of the web: Be careful what you wish for [Bioethics.net article featuring the Lifeboat Foundation's Tihamer Toth-...

I'm skirting the line with the 'reto-futurism' here, but this video, which was posted on YouTube in 2006, feels like it's m...

If you haven't read Michael Anissimov 's excellent piece on eliminating all pain forever from a few days ago you must read it now. ...

From the four corners of the web: Rare Earth Hypothesis FAIL: Life may have emerged in the Universe as much as 12 billion years ago [Space]...

Michael Anissimov is guest blogging this month. One of the most fascinating and ambitious of transhumanist ideas is the "Hedonistic Imp...

From the four corners of the web: Get Smarter (Jamais Cascio) [The Atlantic] Misconceptions of cryonics in popular culture [IEET] Top scie...

From TED : Into the great debate over intelligence and instinct -- over what makes us human -- Susan Savage-Rumbaugh has thrown a monkey wr...

I was at the Subtle Technologies Festival yesterday in Toronto and one of the highlights for me was watching a Tenori-On orchestra perform...

I promised George a longer reply than just "no" on my objections to the video link on science and Buddhism that he posted earlier ...

The Transhumanist Declaration was originally written in 1998 by an international group of authors and then modified and re-adopted by the H...

Venus Envy Heidi Taillefer is a Canadian artist living in Montreal. Her work is an original creative fusion of classical figurative painting...

Where Science and Buddhism Meet from Gerald Penilla on Vimeo . A question for my readers: Is this an accurate assessment of quantum physic...