On the show this week: Breaking The Rules; Broken; Lost and Found; Halloween & Costumes; CQ: With costumes and cosplay becoming more common and accessible, will costumes become part of more people’s casual wardrobe?
Full list of 10 articles after the jump!
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
On the show this week: Breaking The Rules; Broken; Lost and Found; Halloween & Costumes; CQ: With costumes and cosplay becoming more common and accessible, will costumes become part of more people’s casual wardrobe?
Full list of 10 articles after the jump!
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
On the show this week: Packin’ My Space Bags; Things We Have Done; All In Your Head; CQ: Once we have accepted robots as thinking beings, will we ever accept them as rulers and bosses?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
On the show this week: Unusual Science; Usual Science; Animal Science; Unanimal Science; CQ: Is there any moral difference between creating an artificial intelligence on a computer or a new biological entity capable of thinking?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
People pass by us every day,
we only meet a few.
We need to meet a few more. Continue reading →
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
On the show this week: Knowledge Remix; History Remix; Techno Remix; CQ: Now that the VCR is no longer being made and the headphone port is possibly in its dying days, what other beloved but outdated piece of tech, gadgetry or wired connection will likely get phased out soon?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
On the show this week: It’s a Pretty Big Place; Heart Official Intelligence; Leftovers CQ: What sort of government would a colony arcship travelling for 20 years to a distant planet have?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
On the show this week: Mass Hystericals; Cold End of the Universe; Thinking It Through; Techno Logical; CQ: Look at your daily routine of regular activity and project forward: what will be a quotidian activity two hundred years from now?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
On the show this week: Survival; The Pain In Rain Is The Main; Active Mentality; Mental Activity; SExtras; CQ: What’s a philosophical question you’ve yet to find a satisfactory answer for?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
On the show this week: Survival; The Pain In Rain Is The Main; Active Mentality; Mental Activity; SExtras; CQ: What’s a philosophical question you’ve yet to find a satisfactory answer for?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
On the show this week: Thinking About It; Japanimated; Space Between Your Fears; Death is a Plug-in; What Are, Water, Everywhere? CQ: Presume that humans that grew up on different planets are genetically modified — whether by nature or science — and therefore more adapted to different environments. Would they still be eligible for the Olympics?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
On the show this week: Space Rocks; It Thinks It Can’t; Still, Life; Mind interfering with Matter; There Are No Words; CQ: Which will come first: Homo Sapiens Roboticus, in which symbiotic AI are merged with human beings, or Roboticus Sapiens, in which free-will robots exist on their own right? Why? Full list of 22 articles after the jump!
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
A recording of my panel at Balticon 50, an oddly-improv’d discussion called “Looking at the world in a WEIRD way”.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
When there’s nothing left to explore, what do you do?
Explore the end.
(Of course.) Continue reading →
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
We don’t always appreciate that words are not created by the world. Continue reading →
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
We don’t always appreciate that words are not created by the world. Continue reading →
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
The universe may be infinite, but from our point of view it can be seen a series of beginnings —
— and endings. Continue reading →
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
The mind is no sacred ground when science can lay it bare in front of you.
If you could hack it, why wouldn’t you? Continue reading →
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
On the show this week: Patient, Heal Thy Self; CQ: Everybody compared inventions for ages as “the best thing since sliced bread”. Tell me a modern equivalent: what’s an invention in the last 20 years that seems relatively simple, but which has made the greatest impact to daily life?
Full list of articles after the jump!
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
It is said that we are made of star stuff that suddenly became self-aware.
What if star stuff isn’t the starting point?
What if something better was where something like this began? Continue reading →
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
On the show this week: Places Lost And Found; True Tales of Medical Fiction; Mechanical Animal; Some Call It The Dance; Triumph of Belief; Food For Naught; There Are No Small Inventions; CQ: Has humanity already transformed sufficiently to make current standard age ranges covering “child”, “adult” and “old adult” meaningless — and are they too ingrained to change? Why?
Full list of 27 articles after the jump!
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
There are new frontiers to be discovered, friend, that give you order and purpose. When you find yourself separated from your family of a thousand, those frontiers become direction.. Continue reading →
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Sense in the universe may not come from interpreting it literally, but sometimes by moving askance to sense, and moving around it likely an untrustworthy animal that you’ve just met. Until you toss it a peace offering, you may be a piece of offering.. Continue reading →
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
On the show this week: Well Isn’t That Spacial; Science Friction-less; Extras; CQ: Which is better: seeking to uplift animals to near- or above-human intelligence, or creating entirely new, artificial intelligent beings? Full list of 17 articles after the jump!
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
On the show this week: 2-Way Mirror Shades; Distance Education; Mind Love; Outertainment;
CQ: Do we have the obligation to change the world — or the obligation to change ourselves to fit in the world?
Feedback from Rich the TT!
Full list of 14 articles after the jump!
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
