Top 10 Facts About the Inevitable Technological Singularity It’s difficult to conceive of the precise shape an artificial intelligence singularity might take, given the constraints of the creators and our own limited understanding of the nature and source of our own intelligence. This event horizon, as it were, has proven fertile ground for science fiction… Continue reading Top 10 Facts About the Inevitable Technological Singularity
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Top 10 Cool Theories about Faster than Light Travel
10 Cool Theories about Faster than Light Travel Questions about the speed of light go back over 2,500 years when the Greek philosopher Empedocles first claimed that light had a finite speed. Light travels so fast that it can travel between London and New York more than 50 times each second, which equates to over… Continue reading Top 10 Cool Theories about Faster than Light Travel
10 Things You Should Understand About Fermi’s Paradox
10 Things You Should Understand About Fermi’s Paradox Fermi’s paradox arises because of the contradiction between the size of the universe and the fact that we have no contact with alien civilizations. Fermi looked at the heavens and postulated that our Sun is a fairly typical star of its type, it is also young in… Continue reading 10 Things You Should Understand About Fermi’s Paradox
10 Examples When Science is Ignored Because of Emotion
Top 10 Examples When People Ignore Science in Favor of Emotion We Americans like to think of ourselves as the most advanced nation on earth. We like to believe that as a nation we are far in advance of those societies that still succumb to crazy (or cruel) traditional practices such as female genital mutilation to… Continue reading 10 Examples When Science is Ignored Because of Emotion
Top 10 Myths about Genetically Modified Organisms
Top 10 Myths about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) What would you say if you knew that we could feed the world with no hassle, that we can easily, even in the poorest agricultural areas, grow enough to make sure that nobody starves. We would, quite rightly hail that ability as a miracle of modern times,… Continue reading Top 10 Myths about Genetically Modified Organisms
Top 10 Reasons Humans Are Not Causing Global Warming
Global warming has been the crisis of the last few decades. After a period of global cooling in the min 20th Century, the Century as a whole saw a global temperature rise between 1-1.4°F. Over the same time the volume of greenhouse gasses (Carbon Dioxide and Methane amongst others) increased to 389 parts per million… Continue reading Top 10 Reasons Humans Are Not Causing Global Warming
Top 10 Reasons Euthanasia Should Be Legal Everywhere
Top 10 Reasons Euthanasia Should Be Legal Everywhere “Dying is not a crime” – Jack Kevorkian Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com Euthanasia, from the Greek word meaning “good death”, is the practice of assisted suicide with the intention of relieving pain and suffering. Euthanasia is also known as mercy killing or physician assisted suicide.… Continue reading Top 10 Reasons Euthanasia Should Be Legal Everywhere
Top 10 Reasons to Live Every Week Like Shark Week
The greatest week in television is finally upon us again this year! Shark Week has made its annual appearance and with it millions of viewers who have dubbed this the “best week ever”! So why, on earth, bother to live each week like its Shark Week if this glorious program doesn’t show but once a… Continue reading Top 10 Reasons to Live Every Week Like Shark Week