Is It Time to Give Up on the Singularity?
Some futurists and science fiction writers predict that we’re on the cusp of a world-changing “Technological Singularity.” Skeptics say there will be no such thing. Today, I’ll be debating author Ramez Naam about which side is right. A recent article by Erik Sofge in Popular Science really got my hackles up. Sofge argued that the…
7 Signs That Humans Are Domestic Animals
Tens of thousands of years ago, humans were wild animals. Our ancestors roamed the land in search of food by day, and huddled together for safety by night. But then something changed. We domesticated ourselves, and this process didn’t just change us profoundly — it changed a lot of other life forms around us, too.…
Astronomers Discover A Weird “Stellar Hybrid” — A Star Within A Star
An exotic type of ‘hybrid’ star has been discovered nearly 40 years since it was first theorized, but until now has been curiously difficult to find. In 1975, renowned astrophysicists Kip Thorne, of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, Calif., and Anna Żytkow, of the University of Cambridge, UK, assembled a theory on…