Russell Blackford is a guest blogger for Sentient Developments. Introduction The current (December 2009) issue of The Journal of Medical Eth...

Russell Blackford is a guest blogger for Sentient Developments. This post is cross-posted at Sentient Developments and Metamagician and the ...

Great science fiction films are few and far between, so it was with great anticipation that I went to see Avatar on opening night. I had bee...

From the four corners of the web: When robots have feelings their rights will need protection, too | Peter Singer and Agata Sagan If, as ...

Here are my favorite Sentient Development s articles from the past year: Transhumanism and the 'Intelligence Principle' The top 10 e...

A hearty thank you goes out to all the guest bloggers who contributed to Sentient Developments in 2009. Here are my favorite of their artic...

Linda MacDonald Glenn is guest blogging this month . I had the pleasure of listening to Joann Kuchera-Morin from Allosphere at the BioPoliti...

From the four corners of the web: The Scientific Tragedy of Climategate | Reason Magazine Can climate change science recover from the damag...

Tomas Saraceno, Galaxies Forming along Filaments, Like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web (2008)

From the four corners of the web: 25 Everyday Technologies That Came from NASA Though associated mainly with aerospace innovations, NASA h...

Linda MacDonald Glenn is guest blogging this month . Can nanotechnology be sustainable? At the site, Forumforthefuture.org , under the sect...

David Brin is a Sentient Developments guest blogger. In the 1/1/24 edition of the Silicon Valley newspaper and online journal Metroactive, ...

[ Linda MacDonald Glenn is guest blogging this month ] (cross-posted on the Women's Bioethics Blog ) (Roughly translated from Latin as S...

I totally love geek humor -- and this TED Talk by John Hodgman has plenty of it, including a bit about the Fermi Paradox and the ultimate ...

This is not a brain. I'm a big fan of IBM's Brain and Mind Institute (BMI) and the Blue Brain project. Initiated in May 2005, the...

[ Linda MacDonald Glenn is guest blogging this month ] Growing a set of new teeth, or new kidneys, or new eyes, or whatever it is you need, ...

From the four corners of the web: Ranking scientists | Physics An analysis of the citation network leads to an alternative way to quantita...

I'm pleased to announce that bioethicist Linda MacDonald Glenn will be guest blogging at Sentient Developments over the next four week...

So the Large Hadron Collider has been shut down yet again – this time on account of a bird dropping a piece of a bagel onto some sensitive ...

The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies is holding a seminar on the Biopolitics of Popular Culture at Eon Reality in Irvine Ca...