# sex
Surprisingly, one of the topics Singularitarians don't bring up about the utopian virtual worlds to which we'll upload our minds is just how much sex there would be.
# tech
In the future, we might be putting far fewer people in jail and far more under constant surveillance. But will virtual prisons work?
# politics
Sometimes ideas advocated as dangerous and subversive are just poorly thought out notions in search of better marketing.
# politics
The Discovery Institute needs a scapegoat for everything wrong with the world today. And surprise, surprise, it's always Darwin's fault.
# science
Can we really crunch enough numbers to predict future trends, products, and people's behaviors?
# tech
Science fiction writers who really research AI can come away with some great insights.
# tech
Jaron Lanier went from VR pioneer to Luddite afraid of transhumanists' supposed agenda of mass dehumanization.
# space
Scientists issue a correction to the age of the Earth. What does this mean? Pretty much nothing...
# space
While we still don't know how supermassive black holes get as heavy and large as they are, but we have a few ideas...
# politics
UK musicians Pig With The Face Of A Boy put together a fantastic nod to Russian history.
# health
Two scientists submit the applications that an opening for a homeopathic doctor deserved...
# tech
While utopians dream of tomorrow's world, they often forget that we can't take anything for granted when it comes to humanity's future.
# tech
Are public transhumanists pulling away from Kurzweil, citing him as a distraction from a much more sober and realistic community?
# astrobiology
SETI is thinking about how to detect and talk to alien computers instead of just alien beings. And that's a lot harder than it sounds.
# tech
A superintelligent computer would be the last invention humanity could ever want. Figuratively and literally.