Faced with unfortunate facts or inconvenient truths? Tired of closing your eyes, sticking your fingers in your ears, and screaming \"LA LA LA LA LA LA?\" Well, simply read RealClearScience\'s handy guide for denying scientific consensus. It\'s 100% proven to work against a variety of well-substantiated topics, such as: Drinking Water Fluoridation Global Climate Change … Continue reading RealClearScience – 5 Easy Tips for Denying Scientific Consensus
BBC – Future – Science & Environment – Infographic: Absolute zero to ‘absolute hot’
BBC - Future - Science & Environment - Infographic: Absolute zero to ‘absolute hot’. The infographic at this link is worth checking out. A few observations: The temperatures are all in Celsius. Calling the Boomerang nebula the "coldest place in the universe" has always seemed a bit presumptuous to me. Still, the nebula is colder … Continue reading BBC – Future – Science & Environment – Infographic: Absolute zero to ‘absolute hot’
Rationally Speaking: Rationally Speaking cartoon: Evidence & Reason
via Rationally Speaking: Rationally Speaking cartoon: Evidence & Reason. Click through to see a enlarged version. This succinctly mirrors my earlier comments on a post Massimo made a while back expressing frustration on a relative's unwillingness to see logic. Sometimes the logical thing to do is to recognize that logic won't work. Related articles Rationally Speaking … Continue reading Rationally Speaking: Rationally Speaking cartoon: Evidence & Reason
Virtual afterlives will transform humanity – Michael Graziano – Aeon
Imagine a future in which your mind never dies. When your body begins to fail, a machine scans your brain in enough detail to capture its unique wiring. A computer system uses that data to simulate your brain. It won’t need to replicate every last detail. Like the phonograph, it will strip away the irrelevant … Continue reading Virtual afterlives will transform humanity – Michael Graziano – Aeon
Attempts To Terraform Mars Could Fail – With No Chance To Try Again
Most science fiction and news stories describe Mars terraforming as a long term but simple process. You warm up the planet first, with greenhouse gases, giant mirrors, impacting comets or some such. You land humans on the surface right away and they introduce lifeforms designed to live on Mars. Over a period of a thousand … Continue reading Attempts To Terraform Mars Could Fail – With No Chance To Try Again
BBC – Future – Technology – Artificial intelligence: The machines with alien minds
Why should our biological manner of thinking determine our approach to silicone-based circuits and electronic logic? Our machine creations are more profoundly divided from us than anything else in nature. They do not need to think like us to serve us, work with us, or even understand us – as our own relationships with nature … Continue reading BBC – Future – Technology – Artificial intelligence: The machines with alien minds
The Speculative Literature Foundation Announces a Working Class Writer Grant
The blogging experience at a very early stage
I started this blog in early November, motivated somewhat to have a place to express my views and make comments on articles and posts around the web, without having to worry about space restrictions or about fickle or overbearing moderation. I wasn't sure what to expect, or even if anyone would be at all interested … Continue reading The blogging experience at a very early stage
Neanderthals and the Dead – NYTimes.com
Early in the 20th century, two brothers discovered a nearly complete Neanderthal skeleton in a pit inside a cave at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, in southwestern France. The discovery raised the possibility that these evolutionary relatives of ours intentionally buried their dead — at least 50,000 years ago, before the arrival of anatomically modern humans in Europe. … Continue reading Neanderthals and the Dead – NYTimes.com
Think you know what a dinosaur looks like? Think again …
The discovery of soft-tissue comb remnants on a fossil could change the way we visualise dinosaurs. The findings, published today in Current Biology, concern the fossilised remains of an Edmontosaurus regalis skeleton excavated in Alberta, Canada. What makes this specimen notable is the presence of a cranial crest composed entirely of soft tissue — somewhat … Continue reading Think you know what a dinosaur looks like? Think again …
