Suppose you could save five lives by taking one - what would be the correct thing to do? Such ethical dilemmas provide classic "experiments" for philosophers. Here the Magazine presents four
"I think one of the problems beginning story writers have is that the story isn't in their head often enough. It's there (sort of) when they're writing, but not at other times. They haven't devel
"Let me just remark that reading no science fiction at all is definitely reading too little." I couldn't agree more ... but then I'm pro-Singularity already.
"Give college students less instruction and more freedom to think for themselves in laboratory classes, and the result may be a four-fold increase in their test scores." Hoodathunkit?
"Max Tegmark views our universe as one among many possible mathematical structures, and he believes that all mathematical stuctures are indeed manifested physically, though only a minority contai
"...everyone’s idea of their motives and decisions are Just So stories confabulated ex post facto to create a narrative for what is in fact a deterministic supercomputation. Like our illusion of
"While conventional wisdom tells us that things are bad and getting worse, scientists and the science-minded among us see good news in the coming years." Lots to read and mull over here.