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This essay is adapted from Traversal. “Death may snatch me from you, before you can weigh my advice,” Mary Wollstonecraft wrote in the philosophical novel she wouldn’t live to finish, addressing a daughter she was yet to have. “Always appear what you are, and you will not pass through existence with...

This article tells part of the story of the Ultima series. Years ago, [Origin Systems] released Strike Commander, a high-concept flight sim that, while very entertaining from a purely theoretical point of view, was so resource-demanding that no one in the country actually owned a machine that could ...

Sometimes it takes a single piece in a jigsaw puzzle for the whole picture to come into shape. And that happened earlier this weekend. I was able to crystallize a lot of what I have been thinking about technologies colloquially known as “Artificial Intelligence.” And it happened because of a 40-year...

An age-old debate about human nature is being energised with new findings on the tightrope of cooperation and competition- by Jonathan R GoodmanRead on Aeon

Jill Tarter has spent a lifetime working on a question that resists answers: not whether we believe there is life beyond Earth, but the quest for undeniable proof.  Tarter explains why SETI is really about technology, patience, and learning how to tell alien signals from our own. This video Why the ...

A silver bullet for creating new life?

When a young Katharine Burr Blodgett joined future Nobel Prize winner Irving Langmuir at the General Electric Company’s industrial research laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y, it was the start of her brilliant career

So you want to be a millionaire. Easy. Just put $X dollars a day into a low-cost index fund. Repeat every day for a few … The post Elegance Compounds appeared first on Gapingvoid.

Nobody signs up for monotony. It just… happens. One. Habit. At. A. Time. The same dark roast, one splash of milk, lukewarm by the second sip. The same playlist titled “Workout Jams” at the gym. The same gray stretch of highway. The same voices on the same scheduled calls. I’ve honed that rhythm unti...

My life has always been tied to the natural world. I was raised on a thirty-eight-acre parcel of land that, though no longer in my family, still bears my family’s name: the Langsfeld tract. The house I grew up in, designed and built by my parents in the early 90s, sat at end of a […]

Something twisted this way comes… Note: This is another episode in a multi-part reflection concerning my elementary-school years. (It’s not as boring as it sounds, trust.) You can find the launch point here, if needed. FIFTEEN Eventually, my mother was released from the GTE training boot-camp in Lew...