2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (573+ words) You’ve heard that AI could kill us all. Yes, so could old age. At Fast Company, we learn that “Bill Gates has a dire warning about AI,” publicized at the Telluride Film Festival. He prophesied “mass unemployment and major social,…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (364+ words) For the 25th anniversary of 9/11 you may be wondering what to read or watch for the occasion. I have a few suggestions. The movie United 93 is a must, released just five years after the terrible day. If you haven’t read the…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (251+ words) This week marks 25 years since the shocking attacks of September 11, 2001. Except for pockets of barbarity cowering in sleeper cells and caves, the entire world lauded the first responders, mourned the lost, and soundly condemned the perpetrators. Consider these recurring themes…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (356+ words) We hope you are enjoying your Labor Day weekend. While you are carefully putting away all your white clothing until next summer, take a moment to consider the impact of labor on the development of evolutionary theory. Watch the video…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (704+ words) As fallout continues over NYU Press’s retraction of C. W. Howell’s Designer Science, it’s worth looking more closely at the media outlets and scholars who promoted the book so uncritically. Christianity Today (CT) and historian Edward Larson are prime examples....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (307+ words) Novelist Geoffrey Simmons explains how he drew on his background as an ER doctor and disaster preparedness expert to make his story real and plausible. Source Most people know about the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan 1945. But Robert Oppenheimer’s…...