In the wake of the recent IEEE Spectrum feature on the ‘Singularity‘, science fiction author Warren Ellis set transhuman tongues...
Special effects wizard Stan Winston passed away yesterday, aged 62. Winston was the creator of some of the modern era’s...
Tis the season, to be Fortean. If the release of Jim Steinmeyer’s biography of Charles Fort and Tarcher’s reissue of...
Do you want to live forever? The IEEE’s Spectrum Online offers a great online special report devoted to ‘The Singularity‘...
Mycologist Paul Stamets is an expert on mycelium (the organism that mushrooms are the ‘fruit’ of), and in this TED...
Huge news: I mentioned last week that the website of the Society for Scientific Exploration had posted two volumes of...
Pioneering physicist John Wheeler has died aged 96. Wheeler was one of the last ‘legends’ from the Manhattan Project era:...
April 1 this year brought the usual bunch of ‘big news’ gags (although, sadly, most people don’t make their stories...
