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    The Human Problem in the Machine

    As artificial intelligence grows more capable, the greatest danger may not be a machine that refuses to obey us, but one that obeys us too well. From Grey Goo to rogue AI agents, the human problem in the machine may…

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  • Alan Turing’s Model Confirmed: Who Knew he was a Biologist?

    Alan Turing’s Model Confirmed: Who Knew he was a Biologist?

    When you think of the renowned, yet often overlooked, genius of early computing, Alan Turing, I’m betting you imagine code breaking machines, complex mathematical formulas and maybe Artificial…

    Mar 21, 2014
  • Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Site Presents Renewed Threat

    Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Site Presents Renewed Threat

    If you believe Hollywood, or its contemporary bodies around the world, radiation poisoning holds the potential to create anything from giant city-destroying lizards to a new race of…

    Mar 20, 2014
  • Scientists Can Now Clone the Woolly Mammoth, But Should They?

    Scientists Can Now Clone the Woolly Mammoth, But Should They?

    “I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant: I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I…

    Mar 17, 2014
  • The Day Mysterious Fireballs and Men in Black Descended on Philadelphia

    The Day Mysterious Fireballs and Men in Black Descended on Philadelphia

    There’s a lot we don’t understand about this world of ours.  And by ‘world’ I mean the cosmos, the universe…this reality we inhabit.  There is stuff that happens…

    Mar 12, 2014
  • The Big Balls of Humanity: Petrospheres and Their Imposters

    The Big Balls of Humanity: Petrospheres and Their Imposters

    If you give a lump of clay to a child, the first shape they’ll sculpt is likely to be a sphere, or a near-spherical ball.  It’s a shape…

    Mar 10, 2014
  • Helen Duncan and the Last of the Witch Trials: The Story of the Blitz Witch

    Helen Duncan and the Last of the Witch Trials: The Story of the Blitz Witch

    When you think of the term ‘witch trials’, what comes to mind?  Elizabethan Puritans?  The Catholic Malleus Maleficarum – more famously known as The Witches Hammer?  Salem, Massachusetts?…

    Mar 6, 2014
  • Super-megalithic Site Found in Russia: Natural or Man-made?

    Super-megalithic Site Found in Russia: Natural or Man-made?

    Alternate history buffs are about to be whipped into a frenzy!  OK, maybe not, but they will find this interesting. An ancient “super-megalithic” site has been found in…

    Feb 27, 2014
  • A Discussion of Alternate Realities: What Hides in the Periphery?

    A Discussion of Alternate Realities: What Hides in the Periphery?

    “And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: –Behold! Human beings living in an underground den, which has a mouth…

    Feb 25, 2014
  • The Black Knight Satellite, Bracewell Probes, and Philip K. Dick

    The Black Knight Satellite, Bracewell Probes, and Philip K. Dick

    Here follows one of the most interesting and complex stories of Space Conspiracy in existence.  It’s the story of the Black Knight satellite, and so much more.  We’re…

    Feb 20, 2014
  • Human Echolocation: A Story of Hidden Senses

    Human Echolocation: A Story of Hidden Senses

    How many senses do you have?  Five?  Sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing?  Sure, but what would you say if I told you that you have far more than…

    Feb 19, 2014
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