The trouble with making more efficient weaponry is that eventually your enemies will get access to the same technology, and then you have to create something ev...
Is the advance of science ultimately a good thing for humanity? It's a difficult question to resolve - on the one hand, there have been undeniable benefits on a...
If you ever feel that the world is rolling down the wrong path, and we need to re-evaluate our knowledge and systems before things really go to hell, then I hig...
The events of the past 24 hours are yet another reminder that humanity is at a crossroads, suffering from an existential angst that manifests as horrifying atta...
Last year we reported on Elon Musk's grand dream of making humans a multiplanetary species, which he detailed in a speech to the space industry at the 67th Inte...
Written by John Higgs
Wednesday just gone (18th of January) was the birthday of the late great American agnostic Robert Anton Wilson.
His books (and i...
They say that great beasts once roamed this world, as big as mountains. Yet all that's left of them is bone and amber. Time undoes even the mightiest of creatur...
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are ma...
Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality?
Thematically, this question is - I think - perhaps the most important piece of dialogue in the brilliant p...
