The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon

The Future is Drying Up. A great read from the New York Times Magazine.
In short, population growth is overtaxing the limited supply of fresh water available in the western states, and we really need to do something about it relatively soon.

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Continuing in my series of posts about weapons technology that’s been used over the years, the US Navy is evidently producing a beam that can cause people to vomit. Well, not always vomit, but often; the ray–which works through walls–simply causes the targets to get ridiculously dizzy. I suppose it beats getting [...]

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A pretty interested article in Time about the brain and what it means to be conscious. Here are some quotes that I enjoyed.
Why does consciousness exist at all, at least in the Easy Problem sense in which some kinds of information are accessible and others hidden? One reason is information overload. Just as a [...]

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Tupper’s Self-Referential Formula.

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Awesome video. It’ll blow your mind.

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Given the prospect that even a small degree of global warming could cause a massive global extinction on the scale of the dinosaurs, we should be worried about it. Also, it may even be too late to prevent such a catastrophe simply by cutting back emissions:
Everyone with a bit of sense knows that the [...]

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It appears that calorie restricted diets do not dramatically expand your lifespan as I had mentioned in my previous post. Phew! So I can go on to guiltlessly eat as much as I damned well please and still live as long as I’m bound to live.

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I want to live forever, or at least as long as humanly possible. Unfortunately, there are no wonder-drugs, RNA treatments, body-regeneration treatments, transplants, magicians, or apothecaries with the power to gift me that wish. The best science has come up with is the Calorie Restricted diet. In simple terms, you eat very, very [...]

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The city of Reykjavik, Iceland will be turning off all their lights for thirty whole minutes.
Lights off – Stars on is a grand scale happening that marks the opening of the Reykjavik International Film Festival. The City Council of Reykjavik and its neighboring municipalities have agreed to turn off all the city lights in the [...]

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On Point had a special a couple days ago on deep drilling, peak oil, and the future of our energy consumption. Evidently the latest oil find by Chevron is more than be 5 miles beneath the ocean’s surface, far deeper than anything that’s been drilled before, right above the earth’s magma, and the [...]

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