Science & Society

Technological Singularity?, Inflection?, or a Mix ofBoth?

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.?

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

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

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

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?

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

March For Science phfft! Marching for Science Literacy Would Be Better

A so-called " March for Science " will occur April 22nd 2017.  I have half a mind to show up either wearing a sing extolling the climate c hange fighting virtues of nuclear power OR with a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide AND another petition ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Apr 15 2017 - 10:57pm

Government: There Is More To Science Than Government-Funded Jobs

For the better part of this century, the federal government has promoted the notion that only government-funded science is real science, and the private sector is the icky kind that, let's face it, the kind of people who overwhelmingly prefer to stay ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 19 2017 - 2:45pm

Rocket salad, enantiomers, and nomenclature

Yet another article in the Telegraph: this time Supermarket rocket salad healthier than homegrown. featuring the vegetable kingdom this time: ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - May 1 2017 - 11:19am

Economic crisis, bank failures and plague in the Middle Ages.

A.D. 1200 has been called the golden age, as characterized by a booming economy combined with widespread prosperity. Europe's population had reached the height of its growth, reaching about 70 million people, beyond which, according to historians, it ...

Blog Post - Camillo Di Cicco - Feb 13 2018 - 7:12am