Companies we hear a lot about, like Zoom and Beyond Meat, are not profitable compared to an earlier generation of tech startups.
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Professor Steven Pinker’s quickly deleted tweet provides a window into anti-religious hate. In health and medicine, he is entirely mistaken.
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We really don't know anything about life elsewhere in the universe so even university-trained scientists often try to WISH it into existence.
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Without free will, no one is innocent. Who asks cattle on the way to the abattoir if they are guilty or innocent?
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Call me a nitpicker: As a computer engineer, I must say, computers cannot predict the future.
In his documentary on UFOs, Stephen Greer certainly gets one thing right: Consciousness doesn’t fit into conventional science inquiry.
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Despite claims, NDEs are radically different from any mental experience caused by brain impairment.
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On board, the plane will be cleaner but also leaner. Expect to wear a mask and snack before you go.
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The most successful startups of today aren’t as profitable as those founded 20 to 50 years ago. Something is terribly wrong with the current startup system.
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Numbers can frighten or enlighten. The secret is making them explain themselves. Here’s a quick primer.
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A programming language creates a middle space between the way humans think and the way computers think. What's the best compromise point?
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Stephen Hawking was a genius in theoretical physics but he did not know much about computers and his fears of an AI takeover were unfounded.
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Contrary to Steven Novella's claims, cosmological singularities refute materialism. Kurt Gödel can explain
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Why do men see themselves as “fathers” but male gorillas don’t? Proposed answers from evolutionary psychology are hopelessly inadequate.
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Alex Garland departs from conventional sci-fi themes to create a thought-provoking film, packed with action and based on a challenging underlying philosophy.
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Rejecting evolutionary psychology means realizing that we cannot both claim to represent “Science!” and refuse to be bound by its standards.
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Dawkins thinks we didn’t evolve so as to understand consciousness. But that our odd situation points nowhere. Isn’t all this past its sell-by date?
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The United States has formally accused China of both funding and operating cells of hackers who infiltrate research labs working on responses to COVID-19.
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Thanks to economists, during the economic crisis that began in 2007, the President, Congress, and Federal Reserve did not repeat the errors of the 1930s.
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Turing thought that computers could be got to think. Thus he had to address Lovelace’s objection from a century earlier, that they could not be creative.
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