Technology

The Onion reports on a new functionality that finds your "lifepoint"--the point in your life...

MIT researchers make progress towards a potentially amazing accomplishment: For decades, scientists have dreamed of...

When we rationalists, naturalists, and other assorted atheists insist that no one should form beliefs...

by Eric Steinhart Many philosophers portray the cosmic process as an ascending curve of positivity....

Because apparently he doesn't know enough science.  Thankfully UCLA, on the other hand, does: Your...

by Eric Steinhart I think much of the culture and discourse around the singularity is...

This account of how nuclear power works and what the current danger was remarkably clarifying...

The video below is extraordinary and hope inducing, here's the YouTube description: The Japanese company...

via Daniel Florien comes this fascinating account of the human brain and the energy required...

Neat video on how YouTube puts out so much material that we can discover what...

The idea of being able to eat delicious meat without it coming at the expense...

While he was hospitalized a couple years ago, Daniel Dennett got irritated when people offered...

From MedicalNewsToday: Principal investigator Edward K. Vogel, a UO professor of psychology, compares working memory...

This xkcd cartoon made me laugh pretty hard:

City of God argues that the New Atheists need to learn from history that reason...

I appreciate Professor Harman's willingness to exchange a couple rounds of debate with me across...

Graham Harman has an excellent (and lightning quickly delivered) reply up in response to my...

Fascinating speculations from Graham Harman: Until very recently, the mere act of getting a book...

Amazing: Thanks to Unreasonable Faith and Gizmodo

The military is developing technology that, when surgically implanted into an insect, would allow us...

Turns out that if you can't get people interested in your Twitter updates, you can...