February 13, 2020
In January of 2013, a story broke in the Komsomolskaya Pravda that in the region of Vladivostok, Russia, on the borders of China and North Korea, a man by the name of Dimitry made a stunning discovery. He was about to burn a hunk of coal to heat his ...
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December 22, 2019
Notice how each stone is precisely placed with care and finesse. How do hunter-gatherers accomplish this in the neolithic era—about 9000 to 3000 years ago— and more importantly why would they do it in the first place? The big question to me is wh...
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February 23, 2018
But what happens when big data and algorithms start predicting what you haven’t clicked on? And I don’t mean offering the obvious matching scarf to your new GAP sweater. I mean, offering you a product or service only it knows yo...
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January 04, 2018
Transhumanism is defined as “the belief or theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations, especially by means of science and technology.” Of course, this sounds admirable. Who among us does not want to m...
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