Transhumanism Fantasy is a Failure for Humanity Christina Sarich, Staff Waking Times Darwin once called humans living, self-replicating machines. While it is true that we are divided from the rest of the animal kingdom due to our ability to discern the scent of a rose from a peony, and have emotions that either enflame us…
Clovis tools Clovis stone technology was highly sophisticated Present-day Native Americans are descended from some of the continent’s earliest settlers, a genetic study suggests. Scientists sequenced the genome of a one-year-old boy who died in what is now Montana about 12,500 years ago. Some researchers have raised questions about the origins of early Americans, with…
The FDA has banned 23andMe from selling its personal genetic testing kits. But consumers should know the truth about themselves—and so policymakers should set the company free. One would think in an age where everyone is required to have health insurance that we’d want to get the best information about our health as possible. Then,…
Rediscovering Richard Dawkins: An Interview by J.P. O’Malley Sep 23, 2013 He might be prone to controversial outbursts, but what does the world’s leading atheist and scientist really like to talk about? J.P. O’Malley visits Dawkins in his Oxford home to find out. Whenever Richard Dawkins’s name appears in the news nowadays, it’s usually for the wrong…
Your Brain Is the Universe
The skeleton of the famous Irish Giant Charles Byrne, who lived from 1761 to 1783, exhibited at the Hunterian Museum in London.