- Should Mars be treated as a wildlife preserve?
- Recent insights into animal intelligence
- Does memory editing threaten human identity?
- A Type 3 Kardashev civilization and simulated minds
- Bullet-dodging armor vs. guided bullets
End of the Week, End of the World 02-20-09
Add "dark comets" to the category of death-by-meteor-strike. Dark comets are comets that have already burned off their icy layers and so are too dark to see.
Five for the Future 02-11-09
- Invasion of the worm robots
- Water-powered jet packs
- The benefits of mind uploading
- Planetary hard drives
- Designer life forms to convert CO2 to fuel
Five for the Future 01-28-09
- Terraforming Mars -- what it will take
- Why life on Mars matters
- Compiled writings on "friendly" AI
- Invisibility cloak breakthrough
- When genomes get cheap
Five for the Future 1-17-09
- Intercepting quantum crypto communications
- A dose of nanobots as your meal for a century
- Future concept cars and transit designs
- Ten ways to traverse deep space
- Diamond oceans