Gesellschaft… DMs From Beyond the Grave Are Changing How We Grieve 29 Nov 201728 Nov 2017 “When you experience those feelings and memories, it’s a little bit like losing someone all over again.” By Michael Waters | MOTHERBOARD This October, when NaKina Talbert glanced out the…
Bildung… Scientists’ New Role in Trump’s America: The Resistance 15 Jan 201714 Jan 2017 A coalition of university professors and scientists around the United States have taken on a new role in recent weeks: Defenders of facts and truth against the impending antiscience Trump…
Gesellschaft… The Field of Synthetic Biology Runs on Speculative Fiction 19 Nov 201618 Nov 2016 Gene editing and new biological engineering techniques have allowed our minds to run wild: In the last few years, we’ve seen proposals to build North Face jackets out of synthesized…
Geschichte… This AI Sees Things in Art That Humans Don’t 3 Sep 20162 Sep 2016 What’s the same about a photo of the most recent Notting Hill Carnival parade and an 18th century portrait of an upper class family? It might not be obvious to…
Fundamentalismus… French Media Stopped Publishing Terrorists‘ Photos – Research Says They’re Right 17 Aug 201616 Aug 2016 A few weeks ago some major French newspapers decided to stop publishing the photos and names of terrorists. It was days after dozens of people were killed in a brutal…
Geschichte… Why the Internet Won’t Let Harambe the Gorilla Die 30 Jul 201629 Jul 2016 Harambe died for our sins, but he never truly went away. It’s almost exactly two months since Harambe the gorilla was shot at Cincinnati Zoo, passing into the gorilla afterlife…
Ökonomie… This VR Tour of Chernobyl Eerily Compares Scenes Before and After the Fallout 27 Apr 201626 Apr 2016 This Tuesday marks the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, which remains the worst nuclear accident in history. On April 26, 1986, the plant’s infamous reactor four experienced a spike…
Gesellschaft… How ‚The X-Files‘ Was Accidentally Reborn as Right Wing Propaganda 27 Feb 201626 Feb 2016 From 1993 to 2002, a strange show that played off of well-worn tropes from The Twilight Zone, monster movies, and classic detective serials grew from a cult hit into a…
Bildung… You Can Now 3D Print the Ancient Artifacts That ISIS Destroyed 18 Feb 201618 Feb 2016 Last year, members of ISIS tore through Nineveh Museum in Mosul, Iraq, armed with sledgehammers and power drills. They were there with a singular purpose: to destroy the precious, millennia-old…
Medien… Reddit Rapture: How r/atheism Suddenly Lost 10,000 Users 28 Jan 201627 Jan 2016 “It’s the purge!” Late last week a post surfaced on reddit’s /r/OutOfTheLoop, a subreddit designed to help subscribers catch up on news they missed. Unlike most of the posts on…
Bildung… How to Ethically Modify the DNA of Humans 5 Dez 20154 Dez 2015 For the last three days, some of the world’s leading geneticists and bioethicists have more or less locked themselves in a room in Washington DC with the express purpose of…
Gesellschaft… How Do You Teach a Robot Feelings? Make It Sing Opera 30 Jun 201529 Jun 2015 Last week, a humanoid robot called Myon took a lead role in “My Square Lady”, a new opera that opened in Berlin’s Komische Oper in Germany. But while Myon can…
Christentum… How Would the World’s Religions Respond to the Singularity? 24 Jun 201523 Jun 2015 The concept of the Singularity—the point when machines become so intelligent that humanity can no longer keep up—has captivated many technologists and futurists in Silicon Valley and beyond. The Singularity…
Gesellschaft… John Oliver: Got a ‚White Penis?‘ You Won’t Be Harassed Online 23 Jun 201522 Jun 2015 John Oliver went long on online harassment on Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight. If you’ve managed to avoid being harassed or threatened on the internet, Oliver said, “congratulations on…
Bildung… Digital Anthropologists Explore What It Means to Be a Human in a Dataverse 26 Mai 201525 Mai 2015 Hannah Redler wants to examine how humans own and control their information within a dataverse. "We wanted to look at the human at the centre of all the technology and…
Ökonomie… These Bioengineered Tobacco Plants are Growing Pharmaceuticals of the Future 5 Mai 20154 Mai 2015 Are cigarettes the new cure for cancer? No, definitely not. But thanks to developments in genetic engineering, tobacco farming has become an unlikely way to produce cancer-treating drugs. By Mark…
Bildung… This Biohacker BBQ Would be Way Cooler With Less Red Tape 22 Apr 201521 Apr 2015 Biohackers in the US might have more freedom when it comes to tinkering with biology. But over in Europe, there’s still a heap of red tape between a would-be biohacker…
Bildung… Humans Have Been Hacking Their Bodies for Thousands of Years 15 Apr 201514 Apr 2015 Body hacking seems like a modern technological concept, buoyed on by advances in robotic prosthetics, brain-computer interfaces, and cyborgian literary themes. But the integration of non-human hardware into the body…
Bildung… Mind Uploading Will Replace the Need for Religion 14 Apr 201513 Apr 2015 Zoltan Istvan is a futurist, author of The Transhumanist Wager, and founder of and presidential candidate for the Transhumanist Party. He writes an occasional column for Motherboard in which he…
Bildung… Stop Blaming the Moon for Your Problems 7 Apr 20156 Apr 2015 Ever felt like your rotten luck was always weirdly tied to the full Moon? Well, it’s not. And there’s an astronomer on a quest to prove it. “The Moon is…
Ökonomie… In the Transhumanist Age, We Should Be Repairing Disabilities, Not Sidewalks 4 Apr 20153 Apr 2015 Major media is reporting on what is being billed as a landmark agreement for the physically disabled community. A court has ordered the city of Los Angeles to spend $1.3…
