Biometric Data and the Rise of Digital Dictatorship
As historian and author Yuval Harari suggests, market forces and investor greed will keep moving the data revolution forward. But there are balancing forces to this onslaught.
March 6, 2018
The Microbial Eve: Our Oldest Ancestors Were Single-Celled Organisms
Consider this: Evidence points to a microbial Eve as our first ancestor — a tough, underwater organism withstanding extremes that became every other creature to ever live.
February 6, 2018
Of Life's Laws and Unity
Life, for all its remarkable diversity, displays also a remarkable unity; it would be amazing if life as we don't know it is, after all, life as we do know it,
May 24, 2016