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Argentina’s black market for cash is embracing crypto — but it’s not what crypto proponents expected.
Gain-of-function mutation research may help predict the next pandemic — or, critics argue, cause one.
Alzheimer’s has proved difficult to treat. But solving the mystery of this ultra-rare frontotemporal dementia may unlock new understanding.
Meet MIT’s Kate Darling, a robot ethicist who says that we should rethink our relationship with robots.
The AI remembers that you are 32 years old and like to eat sushi, except on Thursdays.
Mind Bank Ai is the newest entrant in an ambitious idea: using AI to create a kind of immortality.
Buildings don’t have to be permanent — modular construction can make them modifiable and relocatable.
Virtual reality continues to blur the line between the physical and the digital, and it will change our lives forever.
Israeli food-tech company DouxMatok (Hebrew for “double sweet”) has created a sugary product that uses 40 percent less actual sugar yet still tastes sweet.
Since 1957, the world’s space agencies have been polluting the space above us with countless pieces of junk, threatening our technological infrastructure and ability to venture deeper into space.
If virtue is insufficient temptation, then the internet makes sure we are never lacking.
From religious wars to French poison conspiracies to the counterculture, we look at the origins of Satanism.
Thousands of churches are left behind every year in America.
Who are the new black atheists and what is behind their recent growth?
Cutting through liberalism and conservatism, important thinkers are trying to navigate a polarized world. This often leads to uncomfortable confrontations.
Where are the four “horsewomen” of new atheism? Well, here are two of them, secular scholars Rebecca Goldstein and Susan Jacoby.
You are already a cyborg! Here’s 10 ways you could merge even more with technology in the coming decade.
“The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.” – Matthew Arnold (born on this date in 1822)
Many Americans are being misled on serious scientific issues, and science journalists have to spend an inordinate amount of time debunking myths which seemingly never die.
Christopher Hitchens, Demystifier Extraordinaire.
A Harvard Business Review blog this week presents fascinating data on long work hours, and speculates on why men work so hard. They cite experts who note that long hours […]
The outcome of a ménage à trois involving desperation, selfishness, and moral consideration, apology came into the world already tainted by its origin. Out of these weak beginnings, we could […]
This article was originally published on AlterNet. What kind of world would we have if a majority of the human race was atheist? To hear religious apologists tell it, the […]
Hemant Mehta has just published a new book, The Young Atheist’s Survival Guide. It’s about the growing and increasingly important demographic of atheist high schoolers – their trials and travails, […]
So I’ve gotten several emails asking what I think about the idea talked up by the devoted Democratic professor Jonathan Zimmerman in the semi-iconoclastic Christian Science Monitor: affirmative action for conservatives […]
Summary: The compelling true story of the Renaissance humanists who rescued Greek and Roman philosophy from oblivion and wrenched the Western world out of the Dark Ages. After the collapse […]
While the desire to tax churches is not new, it seems as far from reality as possible at this moment. As has been commented, no atheist could possibly hope to […]