Over the years we've documented Boston Dynamics incremental steps in either (a) creating a future life of leisure for humanity via robot helpers or (b) ensured ...
We Westerners believe in the power of names.
We like to live under the impression that naming a thing gives us control over it; not only that, but we also th...
The Moon has no doubt inspired the imagination of humans since we had our first conscious thoughts - for so long a mystery object traversing the sky, and then l...
Just last week RPJ wrote here on the Grail about new clinical trials on the use of psilocybin - the entheogenic chemical in 'magic mushrooms' - as a treatment f...
"We build the tools, and then the tools build us." In a recent presentation at The Next Web conference in New York, Jason Silva quotes the brilliant Marshall Mc...
North America. United Kingdom. Netherlands. Norway. Denmark. Japan. Philippines… An insatiable info-vore with an unending passion for exploring the distant corn...
Scientific research into 'psi' effects - telepathy, precognition, psychokinesis, etc. - has been published in peer review journals for the last 150 years, notes...
"By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky
Artificial Intellig...
Replacing your amputated hand with a weapon may seem like the crazy sort of thing you'd find in the horror genre - whether that's Ash from Evil Dead's chainsaw ...
