[NOTE: Part I can be found here.] Later on in his interview, the philosopher and bioethicist Julian Savulescu has much to say about what humans can do on the biological level to help make the world better, in the general … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Part II here.] As soon as I saw the headline for this article, I thought it might be about Peter Singer. I’ve written at great length about Singer before (see this, this, and this), and the title of the … Continue reading →
The folks at Google have made sure that Kay Coles James will not be on an AI ethics board they’re setting up, because she’s from the Heritage Foundation. She may be a black woman, but as a conservative black woman, … Continue reading →
I’ve had many occasions over the years to quote this line from “Hamlet,” and I’m going to do it again: There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. It was true … Continue reading →
For some diseases, not as long as one might think. For other diseases, a really long time. And in addition, it’s not easy to ascertain how long they last, particularly for diseases that have mostly been wiped out and for … Continue reading →
This makes sense to me, because although I’m not a cat fancier I hear they often like to hide in drawers. Case in point: Question is, how does the cat close the drawer? And in other cat-related news, one of … Continue reading →
Perhaps: In a handful of fossilized teeth and bones, scientists say they’ve found evidence of a previously unknown human species that lived in what is now the Philippines about 50,000 years ago. The discovery deepens the mystery of an era … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter Ted Clayton.] Wednesday I wrote this post about a New Yorker article on a huge fossil find that purports to be evidence of the asteroid strike that caused widespread geological perturbations that swiftly killed the dinosaurs and … Continue reading →
In the comments to yesterday’s post about climate change, a lot of people mentioned this article that appeared in The New Yorker and caused a big sensation. I had already read the article and found it to be absorbing. It … Continue reading →
It’s really odd that this article was published in The New Yorker, because although it’s not about the current AGW climate change controversy it certainly dwells on the wild swings that have occurred to earth’s climate in the past. Worth … Continue reading →
…before they decide they’re not good for you again. That article, about the back-and-forth and back-and-forth on eggs and cardiovascular health, illustrates what’s wrong with most nutritional research in humans. Way too many uncontrolled variables. A reliance on self-reports. No … Continue reading →
This experience must be enthralling: After the groundbreaking test flight, we caught up with Moses to learn about what it was like to see the curvature of the Earth and experience weightlessness in actual space. We also wanted to know … Continue reading →