Global Brains & Singularities: Cadell Last & Michael Garfield Debate The Technopocalypse
Cadell Last is an evolutionary anthropologist at the Global Brain Institute and producer of the PBS Digital Studios series The Advanced Apes. We discussed the possibility that our entire planet is waking up as a single super-intelligent organism, and the consequences – both light and dark – for both humankind and the whole biosphere…
Study: Smarter People More Likely to Use Drugs
Sigmund Freud, the highly cited founder of psychoanalysis, was a hardcore speed fiend who utilized copious amounts of cocaine to scribe some of his most popular research.
Honeybees Can Recognize Human Faces
The ability to tell individual faces apart was long thought to be exclusive to large-brained mammals. A number of recent studies have pointed out that some wasps can recognize friends in the hive, and human faces, too.
Slime Molds: Brainless Intelligence
Slime molds, the yellow, finger-like spongy masses on the sides of rocks and logs, are smarter than they appear, with amazing spacial memory.
Cyborg Monkeys
Mental augmentation for animals is no longer a science fiction fantasy plot, but a scientific fact.
The Battle for the Soul of the Republic
The NSA mega-data center, the CIA relationship with
Google, and the federalization of local police suggest that the government
of the United States of America is no longer in
friendly hands. As an intelligence officer, retired Marine, and patriot, I am deeply offended, personally threatened, and alarmed.
Washington Wakes Up
The Washington Post launched the series, "Top Secret America," an investigation into our nation's growing security concerns.
Intelligence is Self Teaching
That intelligence is primarily an auto-didactic force of nature appears to be self evident. The complex forms and systems it can take on transcend our own "personal" intelligence. Social networks now are showing the degree of high wisdom and humor that can erupt from our collective intelligence as the Internet completely exploits our "self teaching" ability and our intelligence increases as a whole.
Are Dolphins “Non-human Persons”?
Scientists have declared that dolphins are the world’s second most intelligent creatures after humans.
