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Who Started the War on Reason Anyway?

Steven Poole calls the numerous books purporting to show that humans are not reasoning creatures a “scientised version of original sin”

As he shows in his survey of the literature, the underlying assumptions about human behavior are often wrong or questionable.

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Little girl undergoing electroencephalography procedure

Attend your own funeral!

It’s easy if you upload your consciousness to the cloud, says futurist
Presumably, in Ian Pearson's future, the rich can attend their own funerals and alternate world funerals an indefinite number of times, each one numbering as many different people as he wants. Read More ›