Greg Stevens
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Your fad diet is going to fail
Fad diets are terrible. There are two ways you can identify a fad diet: First, it promises drastic results in a short period of time; second, it recommends something radically different from the normal, healthy balanced diet that medical experts and nutritionists always recommend. A good, healthy balanced diet is one in which you consume a variety of foods that contain a mixture of protein,… → Read More
The Military Paves the Way for Super-Humanitarian Cyborgs »
What will the military do with its super-human cyborg soldiers? → Read More
Gravity Waves: What Can They Teach Us About the Universe?
The possibility of measuring gravity waves opens the door to a host of intriguing theories about the cosmos. → Read More
How many drones would it take to replace Santa?
Father Christmas needs to move his operation into the 21st century. → Read More
When Satanism Met The Internet
If you think Satanism is a load of attention-seekers in flowing cloaks pretending to raise the dead while blaspheming against Christianity and generally being offensive... well, okay, you're half-right. → Read More
A Breakthrough in the Search for a Cure for ALS Could Change Our Understanding of “Genetic” Diseases
[DIGEST: New York Times, Washington Post, Hopkins Medicine] We like to think that disease is simple. Medical researchers and molecular biologists know better, of course, but that rarely filters out… → Read More
Killer Robots Are Not The Problem: Humans Are.
SECOND NEXUS PERSPECTIVE A dramatic open letter was unveiled at The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) last month, signed by a number of high-profile scientists and t… → Read More
The Largest Structure in Universe Discovered: One Ring to Rule Them All
SECOND NEXUS DIGEST: Royal Astronomical Society, Mother Nature Network, Discovery According to the Royal Astronomical Society, a team of American and Hungarian astronomers have found what appears t… → Read More
Cyborgification Part 3: What Uploading Consciousness Will Mean For The World
This article is the third in a series about using technology to overcome the most primal challenges to humanity: disease, aging, and death. In Part 1, we looked at the Avatar Project and the people… → Read More
The Fermi Paradox, Expanded
In a casual conversation in 1950, among a number of eminent physicists of the time, Enrico Fermi asked why we haven’t found evidence of extraterrestrial life. After all, with so many billions of st… → Read More
Robotic Self-Awareness Is Here. Is Skynet Next?
Dr. Selmer Bringsjord, a researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has programmed Nao robots, simple programmable robots available to the general public, to pass a very simple “self-awareness… → Read More
The Science of Democracy: Are Humans Hard-Wired To Be Stupid Voters?
The next United States Presidential election is just under 16 months away, and already “silly-season” is in full force. The frontrunner for the Republican party is Donald Trump: a “television perso… → Read More
Politics, the Dark Lord, and Hobby Lobby: An interview with the Satanic Temple
Over the past year, the Satanic Temple has quickly become one of the most controversial religions on the Internet. The biggest stories involving the temple have always been responses to poli... → Read More
This program turns computers into storytellers
A fable is a short, simple story that teaches a moral lesson. Many are extremely old and extremely popular. The phrase “a wolf in sheep’s clothing” actually comes from a fable by Aesop. You’ve prob... → Read More
Hating Photoshop won't solve our beauty epidemic
Last Friday, Jezebel obtained and published some un-retouched photos of Mariah Carey. To their credit, most celebrity websites yawned in response. “Photo retouching has become pretty commo... → Read More
3 ridiculous myths about how technology is destroying your mind
Did you know that technology is terrible and is destroying our minds? It’s true. It must be true, because people keep saying it. In the 1960’s, television (“the boob tube&rdquo... → Read More
Should you data mine your exes?
I remember sitting around at a party in my third year of college with a group of people talking about the various “types” we were attracted to. It’s a great exploratory convers... → Read More
Forget everything you've heard about Bryan Singer's Hollywood parties
If I’d known that being gay could mean this, I would have come out a lot sooner.The young man stood across from me in the small, perfectly manicured yard of a decadent home that hugged slopes of Ho... → Read More
How to dumb down the arguments for transgender rights
In a recent article, “I am an antelope. Check your privilege before you question it,” my old friend and former employer Milo Yiannopoulos, who I'm sure won't mind me taking h... → Read More
Would you have sex with a robot?
In an online poll of 2000 British adults, almost one in five admitted that they would have sex with a robot. But the real number of people who would turn to a mechanical partner for some private... → Read More