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Doris Lessing at 100: roving time and space
On the centenary of the Nobel laureate’s birth, Patrick French explores her science-infused series Canopus in Argos. Lessing wove space exploration, migration, climate change and social disintegration into novels that seem astonishingly prescient today. In the 1920s, growing up on a poor farm in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) Doris Lessing received impromptu outdoor lessons in […]
The Rise & Foreseeable Future of Artificial Intelligence Part 2: Where is AI Heading?
This address will focus on a number of these non-technical issues per se; yet they are highly dependent on technical advances in AI and the application of those advances. This dependency also will be considered as we look into the near-term future of AI. The notion of an ‘AI race’ and its possible future scenarios […]
Proposal for the development of an LENR reactor
Introduction: Canadian researcher, Dr. Dimiter Alexandrov, Lakehead University, in his semiconductor research laboratory, performed successful replicable LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reaction) experiments considering interactions of both deuterium and hydrogen gases with certain metals in a vacuum chamber. The products of these LENR experiments were helium (both stable isotopes He-3 and He-4) and heat. No radiation above the […]
Getting it right
Truth is neither absolute nor timeless. But the pursuit of truth remains at the heart of the scientific endeavour But philosophers of science, over the past half-century, have turned against the representation of science as a ceaseless forward march toward truth. It is just not how science works, how it moves through history. It flies […]