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It is Thanksgiving holiday here in the United States, a time to take stock of all the good things we can be grateful for. This time, for me, with a technoprogressive spin on it.
First, I’m grateful that we have pulled together a terrific seminar next week in Los Angeles to examine the ...
Physical Science
The Venture Bros. is one of those shows I don’t really laugh out loud at until the third or forth time I watch an episode. It isn’t because the jokes aren’t hilarious the first time, it’s just that there is so much awesome compressed into every moment I don’t have ...
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There’s been a lot of talk recently about the “hacked climate emails.” Long story short: Hacker steals email, posts. Wingnuts take some lines out of context, claim they show a cover-up, cry conspiracy. Scientists refute, in detail. Media covers “controversy.” ...
Environment
I guess to be fair this is more of a technoutopian libertarian transhumanist - or “libertopian” - “solution.” But since the singularitarians seem to be flavor of the month I’ll give them credit.
Other
How many times have you relied on a weather forecast only to find yourself woefully unprepared for what really happened? The same risk holds for predictions about future trends.
An article by Stuart Blackman in The Scientist says: “Ill-judged predictions and projections can be ...
Other
Scitech
The data refers to the devolution of the top four maritime empires, by extent, of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Other
Some thoughts about the World Economic Forum’s Summit on the Global Agenda…
As the Summit on the Global Agenda came to a close, I was left with an abiding impression of a looming yet largely hidden potential crisis in global security and prosperity: A failure to develop and use ...
Other
Scitech
Join the IEET and our co-sponsors on an educational cruise to the Bahamas, leaving from and returning to Manhattan, New York, October 10-17, 2010.
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Scitech
A crack team of sixteen trained golden retrievers illustrate the structure of atoms—the particles that make up everything around you. They also show how atoms are weirder than you might think.
Other
Scitech
It all started with experience, as most philosophical positions should. What’s an idea worth if it cannot withstand the rub of the real?
My mother taught English and my father taught agriculture in Robertsdale High in southern Alabama. Except for his three years of fighting in The War. ...
Other
Futuristic films like “The Terminator” and “Minority Report” imagine a time in which the virtual world can be projected onto the physical world. This technology, known as augmented reality, will be commercially available in the form of glasses sooner than we think, says ...
Other
Futuristic films like The Terminator and Minority Report imagine a time in which the virtual world can be projected onto the physical world. This technology, known as augmented reality, will be commercially available in the form of glasses sooner than we think, says the IEET’s Jamais ...
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Scitech
Thierry Henry’s handball during the now infamous France-Ireland World Cup qualifying match, clearly caught on camera and later acknowledged by the player himself, has reignited in some quarters an often discussed call for the use of technology to aid referee decisions during soccer ...
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IEET readers have weighed in with their opinions about why the LHC project kept running into seemingly endless delays on its way to running protons into each other. Now that it’s back up and operating , perhaps some of our more far-fetched conjectures will be proved wrong.
Physical Science
Large Hadron Collider
Scitech
Asking the question is comparatively easy. Finding the answer is hard.
Would you run into a burning building to try to save a baby you knew was trapped inside? Would it make a difference if that baby was your own?
Would you run into a burning building to try ...
Other
[Contains spoilers] Battlestar Galactica: The Plan is a movie released straight to Blu-ray and digital download, which retells the miniseries and the first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica from the perspective of the Cylons. Although it doesn’t answer all the questions one may have had ...
Other
In 2003, the idea that one might have a freedom to change one’s body and brain as one liked was being discussed in relation to the Transhumanist FAQ . This idea receives much less attention in the current FAQ, where it is largely replaced by a lesser freedom to enhance. This is ...
Other
IBM’s new cat brain simulation is both more—and less—than it seems.
IBM Moves Closer to Creating Computer Based on Insights from the Brain
Scientists perform cat-scale cortical simulations and map the human brain in effort to build advanced chip technology
A ...
