Nick Bostrom's Dangerous Idea? Societies should limit the development of harmful technologies while promoting beneficial ones.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Long before the Occupy movement made headlines, writer Dean Bakopoulos foreshadowed it in a darkly comic novel called My American Unhappiness.
Physicist Clifford Pickover talks with Steve Paulson about Magic Squares and why people get hooked on them.
Gabor Maté is a physician at OnSite, a Vancouver detox facility and the only supervised injection site in North America.
From the tiniest microscopic particles to some of the biggest structures on earth, the new science of astrobiology is leading the way to the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe. Dimitar Sasselov explains why the creation of the world's first artificial cells will revolutionize lifeon our planet.
Drew Gilpin Faust's latest book, This Republic of Suffering, explores one of the most sobering aspects of the Civil War: its colossal death toll.
Biologist Elisabet Sahtouris left her teaching job to go live on a Greek island and re-think her life as a scientist.
Cary Sudler returns to his ancestral home to apologize to the black members of his family for the injustice of slavery.
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