“All my life, I’ve always thought, ‘well this is another little problem, this is what we’ve got to do’ and I’ve always wanted to get on with it,” she says. […]
Archives for February 2018
Wild Globalization and Terrorism: Three Scenarios
By Nicole Schwartz-Morgan, CACOR Member “The great danger of bombs is the explosion of stupidities that they provoke.” –Octave Mirbeau (1850-1917) If an opinion poll at the beginning of last […]
The Missing Link of Climate Change: Single-Family Suburban Homes
It doesn’t solve the problem to buy a hybrid and retrofit your house if all of that takes place 20 miles from your job Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National […]
Why Ethical Robots Might Not Be Such a Good Idea After All
The risks that a robot’s ethics might be compromised by unscrupulous actors raise doubts over the wisdom of embedding ethical decision making in real-world safety critical robots This week my […]
Kayfabe
A brilliant answer to the Edge.Org 2011 annual question – What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? The sophisticated “scientific concept” with the greatest potential to enhance human understanding […]
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