Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine

Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
Valery Yarynich glances nervously over his shoulder. Clad in a brown leather jacket, the 72-year-old former Soviet colonel is hunkered in the back of the dimly lit Iron Gate restaurant in Washington, DC. It’s March 2009—the Berlin Wall came down two decades ago—but the lean and fit Yarynich...
July 20th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More

Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World

Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World
Warning: The ideas expressed here may be dangerous. For this year’s list, we walked right past the usual suspects and went looking for trouble. We wanted radicals, heretics, agitators—big thinkers with controversial, game-changing propositions. We found a prison reformer who wants to empty jails,...
July 13th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More

Do we live in a Multiverse?

Do we live in a Multiverse?
WHEN cosmologist George Ellis turned 70 last year, his friends held a party to celebrate. There were speeches and drinks and canapés aplenty to honour the theorist from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, who is regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on general relativity. But there...
April 12th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More

10,000 Hours to Shine

10,000 Hours to Shine
Malcolm Gladwell says that if you want to shine, put in 10,000 hours The search for success has spawned a motivational industry worth millions of pounds and libraries full of self-improvement books. From the Times Online by Steven Swinford It is practice, however, that makes perfect, according to the...
March 19th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More

Chief exorcist says Devil is in Vatican

Chief exorcist says Devil is in Vatican
The Devil is lurking in the very heart of the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican’s chief exorcist claimed on Wednesday. Father Gabriele Amorth said people who are possessed by Satan vomit shards of glass and pieces of iron. By Nick Squires in Rome from The Telegraph He added that the assault on...
March 12th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More

BREAKPOINT: terrorists vs. transhumanists

BREAKPOINT: terrorists vs. transhumanists
Former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke’s BREAKPOINT novel, set in the year 2012, is based on emerging technologies. “Globegrid,” a high-speed global network, links supercomputers worldwide. Combined with advanced AI software, it promises to reverse-engineer the brain, revolutionize...
February 17th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More

Is the US Government covering up the truth about UFOs?

Is the US Government covering up the truth about UFOs?
The Disclosure Project is an organization that alleges the existence of a US government cover-up of information relating to unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The Project claims that UFOs are spacecraft piloted by intelligent extraterrestrial life, a fact that the United States government is keeping...
January 20th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More

2012 & Human Destiny

2012 & Human Destiny
THE END OF THE WORLD OR CONSCIOUSNESS REVOLUTION? Instead of predicting a physical destruction of the material world, the Mayan prophecy might refer to death and rebirth and a mass inner transformation of humanity. In order to explore this idea, we have to answer two important questions, First, how...
December 2nd, 2009 | Big Ideas | Read More

The Future of the Universe

The Future of the Universe
Gardner’s book, The Intelligent Universe, examines the past and future of the universe and proposes that the universe might end in intelligent life, one that has acquired the capacity to shape the cosmos as a whole. by James N. Gardner from KurzweilAI There is a time machine clearly visible right...
December 2nd, 2009 | Big Ideas | Read More

The Singularity is Near

The Singularity is Near
Gary Wolf’s article (below) originally appeared in the March 2008 issue of  Wired Magazine. Ray Kurzweil is a fervent believer in the Singularity,  and a proponent of  various outlandish predictions, based on his own Law of Accelerating Returns, which states that the development of technology...
December 1st, 2009 | Big Ideas | Read More
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