Great article by Michelle Hutichinson over at Practical Ethics: Creating Non-Human People . Blurb: John Locke thought that what it meant to...

Over the past several years a good number of "futurists" and all-out naysayers have systematically worked to undermine and dismiss...

James Hughes, the executive director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies , is featured in Slate's article, Think Fast...

Wired recently published an article titled, " Seven Creepy Experiments That Could Teach Us So Much (If They Weren’t So Wrong) ." A...

Performance artist Marion Laval-Jeantet has injected herself with horse blood plasma as part of an artistic project called "May the Hor...

This was published last year:  The ethics of using transgenic non-human primates to study what makes us human  by Marilyn E. Coors, Jacqueli...

Very cool article in The   Atlanic : The Science of 'Planet of the Apes': Could Simians Get Scary Smart? Excerpt: ...there's s...

It’s been a while since I’ve been so excited about a science fiction movie. But can you blame me? Rise of the Planet of the Apes (hereafte...

Wow, the Daily Mail is reporting that over 150 human-animal hybrids have been grown in UK labs since 2008 , the same year the Brits passed ...

IEET Program Director Kyle Munkittrick interviewed director Rupert Wyatt, and stars Andy Serkis and James Franco, about the ethics of cogni...

Looks like a good example of cultural uplift. I also recommend the RadioLab episode, " Lucy ." Description: The haunting epi...

Humanity’s relationship with animals has varied drastically over the millennia. Animals were once (and some still are) our predators, cont...

Paul Raven of Futurismic has taken me to task on my views of animal uplift. In response to my question, "Ultimately, we have to ask o...

Hmm, should we call it techekinesis ? The latest brain-computer interfaces are meeting smart home technology and virtual gaming. From New Sc...

In the not-too-distant future, most of humanity has forsaken smartphones and the trappings of technology for "HPlus," a direct con...

Biological uplift is one of two major ways in which a human or animal can be endowed with superior or alternative ways of physical or psycho...

Robert Ettinger, the father of modern cryonics, passed away yesterday on July 23 at the age of 92. He will primarily be remembered for his 1...

Wow, animal uplift just got a little bit more real: a recent report from the Academy of Medical Science suggests that action is needed now ...

Two very cool and sobering TED talks have recently been released that are worth checking out: Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending th...

I think I'm a little too excited about this upcoming movie, but the animal uplift themes have put me over the top.