Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# oddities
Part two of the sci-fi experiment featuring a space opera built around this blog's favorite themes...
# science
Avatar is an accidental tale of Singularitarian transhumanism with an environmentalist twist.
# tech
Researchers at IBM seem to believe that simulating the background activity of the brain will create a conscious, self-aware mind.
# tech
Transhumanists preaching the Gospel of the Singularity are right that we don't have to let nature dictate our future. But their absolute faith in utopian technology that hasn't yet been invented is misplaced.
# science
A number of researchers and utopian pundits are promising radical life extension, if not unlimited lifespans. But the science behind their claims is shaky to non-existent.
# tech
The Singularity Institute has been reading Weird Things and they have some objections...
# tech
The Gospel of the Singularity and its promise of digital immortality is now selling engineering and scientific snake oil and hope to believers.
# science
Humans are reaching the limits of biological evolution according to the opinion of pop sci enthusiasts playing with some bizarre technobabble and numerology.
