Check out this cool video, which presents an optimistic and heroic vision of the future:
The Future is Ours from Michael Marantz on Vimeo.
By using novel methods developed for tracing the origins of virus outbreaks, researchers say they have identified present-day Turkey as the homeland of the Indo-European language family. The international team used computational methods analyzing words from more than 100 ancient and contemporary languages, as well as geographical and historical data. By doing so, the scientists…
Why should Big Pharma invest in Big History? My answer is in the form of a warning label I imagined attached to all pharmaceutical products.
Cybernetic immortality is the idea that we can achieve a sort of immortality by downloading (or uploading) our consciousness into a computer.
It’s Okay To Be Smart is a blog and a YouTube show about science. But it’s probably not about science the way you’re used to it. From the blogger and host, Joe Hanson, Ph.D: “I have a Ph.D in biology, and my mission in life is to tell the world about the awesomeness of ALL…
By now you’ve no doubt heard of “flow,” the highly pronounceable psychological term coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the psychologist with the nearly unpronounceable name. In case you’ve missed it, flow is another name for being in the zone, at the top of your game–whatever it may be–and perfectly involved with what you’re doing, undistracted by…
We like to believe that more information allows us to make more informed decisions, to be more knowledgeable. That’s wrong: knowledge does not grow with information access.