Award-Winning Physicist: Science Doesn’t Support Atheism

3 Apr 20192 Apr 2019

Last week, Scientific American published an interview with Marcelo Gleiser, a theoretical physics professor at Dartmouth and this year’s winner of the Templeton Prize, in which he said some things…

Biotyranny and its Resistance: Who Owns Your Body?

12 Mrz 201711 Mrz 2017

Inspired by Foucault, Chelsea Manning and techniques like gene editing, artists and activists are taking back power over our bodies from governments and corporations. By Andrew Smart | MOTHERBOARD In…

Humanity’s long Search for the Soul in the Brain

9 Jun 20158 Jun 2015

The history of Western neuroscience may seem a dry topic to an outsider, a litany of impenetrable Latinisms and anatomical diagrams. It is, in fact, a series of fascinating battles…

Simulated Worlds Will Soon Be Indistinguishable From Reality

16 Mai 201515 Mai 2015

The technological singularity is a hypothetical moment in the future when artificial intelligence becomes indistinguishable from human intelligence—and capable of creating smarter iterations of itself. Apply the same general idea…

Is the Universe a Giant Computer Simulation? Here’s the Evidence

9 Mai 20158 Mai 2015

Our universe seems real, but is it really? As humans get better at simulating artificial intelligence, it seems at least plausible that we could create life that is both conscious…

How religion and American exceptionalism are undermining our future

9 Mrz 20158 Mrz 2015

Despite overwhelming scientific consensus, Americans remain split on climate change. Here's why. By Edward L. Rubin|Salon James Inhofe, the senior Republican senator from Oklahoma and author of “The Great Hoax:…

Atheist Billboard in Australia Reads: “Have You Escaped Religion? We Have!”

9 Feb 20158 Feb 2015

They know how to ruffle some feathers Down Under. A new billboard in Sydney (Australia) put up by the Sydney Atheists and the Atheist Foundation of Australia holds little back…

We need to talk about TED

5 Jan 20144 Jan 2014

In our culture, talking about the future is sometimes a polite way of saying things about the present that would otherwise be rude or risky. By Benjamin Bratton - Richard…