Making Life Multiplanetary – Mars
There is a growing groundswell of thoughts, desires, hopes and aspirations to reach out to the red planet. Not just “boots on the…
Tag: science
EM drive works – maybe
The revolutionary space propulsion system, known as the EM drive has been demonstrated by scientists at Dresden University to work, creating thrust from the…
More Than Human and the Nexus Trilogy
This is probably the most exciting and influential series of books that I have read over the last year. Ramez Naam has worked at…
Deep learning is not A.I.
In the last two years, major advances have been made in deep learning. Applications have been developed that can scan through images and…
DARPA: Terraforming Mars
This may be getting ahead of ourselves. The US military division that researches advanced uses of technology has a team of biologists working…
Red Mars
I recently read the Kim Stanley Robinson trilogy about Mars. It seemed appropriate, given the slowly growing interest in the planet by the…
Buy a real robot, $1600
In a joint venture between Softconn, Alibaba and Foxconn, you will soon be able to buy a humanoid robot like Peppa, shown below,…
Consciousness and unlearned knowledge
In this recent article in Scientific American, a theory is postulated that innate knowledge could be passed down in some way through the…
Dark matters
This is a bit weird. A few days ago, I drove to my local hospital for an MRI scan. I listened to a…
Get real
I considered several different themes for today’s entry. Perhaps something relevant to the time of year like “Remember, Remember the 5th of November”…