An Airliner Near-Catastrophe Offers Unique Neuroscience

In August 2001, behavioral neuroscientist Margaret McKinnon was among 306 passengers and crew on Air Transat Flight 236, a transoceanic flight originating in Toronto and de...

Jon Hamm Hosts Fundraiser To Help Find Cure For Batten Disease

Jon Hamm hosted a special benefit Thursday for the Charlotte & Gwenyth Gray Foundation at the Atom Factory in Culver City, Calif. Charlotte, 4, and Gwenyth, 20 months, ...

How Transhumanist Tech Will Correct Reality's Typos.

It’s commonplace while reading to have one’s concentration disrupted by a spelling error or typo. Sometimes that disruption causes us to discredit the material ...

The Misconceptions About Mental Illness We Need To Unlearn.

Mental illness isn’t like a sinus infection. You can’t just wait it out or take a pill to make everything go away. Our brains are complex and enigmatic, and men...

Techno-Visionaries And The Philosopher’s Stone

“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”

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Technology Matters!

Technology has been heralded as the tool that will expedite the entire evolutionary process of human beings. Technology has boomed over the last 40-45 and has taken over mu...

Tech Trek: Themes of Technological Influence in Cinema

Like the ever-present air, we live and breathe technology. Despite our excessive dependence on the array of media at our disposal, we take our options for granted. Neverthe...

Scientists Can Now Transform Blood Cells Into Neurons

Taking a trip to a clinic to give blood has just become a mission with a dual purpose. Scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to take those blood samples and...

Abstract Property: Imperialism of Ideas

Science and religion have been polarized over the issue of consciousness since time immemorial. Science attributes this fundamental function of our species to tiny volts of...