CategoryPolitics
Harvard Law to Teach Rights of Nature
People think that such a whacky idea will never gain traction. But the nature-rights movement is making great headway
Musk vs Australia: Down Under Is Down One For Now
A federal court has refused to extend the demand that Musk’s X platform remove videos showing the stabbing attack on Rev. Mar Mari Emmanuel
Deep Fake Videos Can Upgrade Political Humiliation and Rule by Fear
AI human impersonation video technology promises rule by terror to degrees never before imagined
A Timely Leak Offers a Peek Into Chinese Cyberespionage Worldwide
What Chinese hackers are doing can sound as exciting as a spy movie — but it is much more dangerous
Are Mind vs. Brain Issues Going Mainstream?
Capitol Hill lobby HillFaith has been sponsoring discussion of the immateriality of the mind in recent years
Is Our World, Post-1950, Really a Geological Epoch?
Some earth scientists lobby for calling the past 75 years the Anthropocene epoch, giving it equal importance with the 16-million-year Upper Jurassic
If Information Is Wealth, Are Deepfakes a Form of Counterfeiting?
The current tech media overdose on panic over deepfakes. They could be drowning out practical ways of fighting back
When Censorship Parades Itself as a Science…
A House Subcommittee discovered that the National Science Foundation — which is supposed to support science and engineering — is readying censorship tools
Will Deepfakes Be Used to “Show” Us That Computers Can Now Think?
As the deepfake technology advances, William Dembski wonders whether some AI zealots might try to “fake it till they make it,” Theranos-style
Autonomous Vehicles Are Catching Up Fast
There are winners and losers. GM's Cruise was kicked out of California over safety issues but Alphabet's Waymo, which emphasizes safety, is still chugging along
Citizen Scientist Forrest Mims Tells His Remarkable Life Story
In his new book “Maverick Scientist,” he details the ups and downs of an extraordinarily productive life in science, with few credentials to hide behind
Will Scientists Be Forced to Consider the Occult as Science?
When the World Economic Forum invited a witch to Davos to offer incantations, it was more than just window dressing
A Darwinian Argument for a Global Government
The evolutionary researchers worry that we have not evolved to be worthy of a global government and will face ecological ruin in consequence.
How Bottom Up Media Now Threaten the Traditional Top Tier
New media resources like subscription-based Substack are rapidly becoming the venue of choice for whistleblowers with stories to break
How Bottom Up Media Are Slowly Replacing Top Down Media
The decline and death of legacy media organizations is speeding up and the media replacing them are much smaller, more numerous and more independent
When Science Writers Say Things We Hardly Expected…
Some science writers are monotonous boosters for Answers from Science but the better ones challenge themselves, and thus challenge us too
Does Deep Social Change Underlie the War on Math?
Why is the universal language of science sinking under the weight of claims about trauma and privilege?
A Warning From the Unpublished Preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm
Only discovered in 1971, the Preface offers George Orwell’s critical but neglected insights into the nature of censorship in a free society