The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty
What would happen if you attacked poverty with a culture transplant? Take a needy third-world country, and have them voluntary cede a piece of land to, say, the Canadians, where their laws and […]
What would happen if you attacked poverty with a culture transplant? Take a needy third-world country, and have them voluntary cede a piece of land to, say, the Canadians, where their laws and […]
American medical research making a big difference against a disease that hit Nicaragua’s children hard. We defy you to watch this video without reaching for the tissues. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/livingproofproject/Pages/video-gallery.aspx#video=/livingproofproject/Pages/vaccine-remarkable-impact.aspx&pager=0&filter=&autostart=true
We have been getting a lot of questions about the meaning of Craig Venter’s accomplishment, creating self-replicating life, more or less. Joel’s been responding — this is like the creation […]
The film is set in the not-too-distant future, when an unnamed government uses lifelike cyborgs or “enhanced” humans for undercover work. One of the key cyborgs is The Major, Motoko […]
From Shirow Masamune, the award-winning creator of Appleseed and Dominion, comes “The Ghost in the Shell”, the breakthrough manga that inspired the internationally acclaimed animated film. An epic dystopian tale […]
The point is not what he says, it’s that he’s saying it in Oprah magazine. When this bastion of the ordinary is talking radical transformation, who knows what might happen […]
Oprah, talking about the deep, radical future again. The next ten years will radically change the way major diseases are diagnosed, treated, even cured. Take a sneak peak at the […]
Emotions such as empathy and disgust might be at the root of morality, but psychologists should also study the roles of deliberation and debate in how our opinions shift over […]
Civilizations always think they’re immortal, Eagleman noted, but they nearly always perish, leaving “nothing but runes and scattered genetics.” It takes luck and new technology to survive. We may be […]
Since late March, when Google moved its search operations out of mainland China to Hong Kong, each response to a Chinese citizen’s search request has been met at the border […]