Science & Society
- Google, Facebook, Who's Leading In Orwellian Dystopias Of The 21st Century?
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Fictional metaphors matter, and in the battle to safeguard our civil liberties few metaphors matter more than George Orwell’s 1984. Although first published almost 70 years ago, the lasting salience of this most archetypal dystopia is undeniable. ...
Article - The Conversation - Feb 3 2017 - 9:40am
- The Many Ways Farmers Control Pests
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The post originally appeared on the Putting Pesticides in Perspective (PPIP) Blog on 2/7/17 on which there are also 6 related sub-posts ...
Article - Steve Savage - Feb 7 2017 - 4:23pm
- Rational Suckers
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Why do people skip queues, cause traffic jams, and create delays for everyone? Who are these misbehaving creatures lacking basic cooperation skills? Are they really all that different from you? Are you perhaps one of them? ...
Article - Johannes Koelman - Feb 8 2017 - 4:53am
- Advanced Racism For Dr Duke And Prof Slattery: Why Hate Jews?
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Never compare between only Blacks (B) and others for example, or only Caucasian Whites (CW) and B. One should consider at least three together instead of only two. For example, consider also the North East Asians (NEA). Why? Without considering NEA, B and ...
Article - Sascha Vongehr - May 2 2018 - 7:58pm
- Technological Singularity?, Inflection?, or a Mix ofBoth?
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For most of human history, technology changed very little during a person’s lifetime. Certainty, their life was not constant with the hard agricultural life being interrupted by war, disease, and famine. However, very few new technologies would come into ...
Blog Post - David LePoire - Mar 19 2017 - 5:48pm
- Russia: A Broken Mirror of the U.S.A.?
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A while back I wrote about the program I was involved with ...
Blog Post - David LePoire - Mar 24 2017 - 3:56pm
- The Way I See It
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Where by "It" I really mean the Future of mankind. The human race is facing huge new challenges in the XXI century, and we are only starting to get equipped to face them. The biggest drama of the past century was arguably caused by the two world ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 4 2017 - 12:34pm
- No Science Distorting Populism For High Trust Society
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The prospect of a peaceful right wing revolution from the heart is no more but an April fools’ day joke to those high on hate such as Andrew Anglin. I would not be surprised if, as the hole at the other end of Ezra Levant’s dildo also suspected, such is su ...
Article - Sascha Vongehr - Apr 7 2018 - 9:58pm
- Muck and Medicine
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An article in The Federalist: The Darwinism That Fuels Atheism Actually Favors Religiosity contains a section based on a 2016 report ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Apr 13 2017 - 1:22am
- Do We Really Want a Technological Explosion?
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Often the term technology explosion is used to indicate the rapid growth of technology in areas such as information technology or biotechnology. Usually, the assumption is that innovation creates great new approaches and products that will improve our cond ...
Blog Post - David LePoire - Apr 14 2017 - 1:25pm
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