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Two Billionaires Want to Help Break Humanity Out of a Giant Computer Simulation
The hypothesis that we might all be living in a computer simulation has gotten so popular among Silicon Valley’s tech elites that two billionaires are now apparently pouring money into breaking us out of the simulation. That’s according to a new profile in the New Yorker about Y Combinator’s Sam Altman. The story delves into Altman’s life and successes at … Continue reading
Futurologist Predicts That by 2050 More Humans Will Have Sex With Robots Than With Each Other
The human race has evolved from a long process. Today, some secular philosophers consider this current human race to be the most advanced. However, many mystic philosophers dispute this assertion. Of course, we all agree that for what we can see from the natural world, this current human race has made a rapid progress in technology, at least since the … Continue reading
Researchers Suspect Bacteria, Viruses and Parasites Influence Human Behavior, Culture
We may think we’re independent, capable individuals, calling the shots in our lives from a place of personal freedom, but a new breed of research offers a somewhat terrifying counter argument to this belief. Incredibly, microbes can have a profound effect on our personalities and behavior — and even cause us to be more accident prone. While quite a bit … Continue reading
Kepler Reveals Our Galaxy’s Most-Mysterious Star Is Even Stranger Than Astronomers Thought
A star known by the unassuming name of KIC 8462852 in the constellation Cygnus has been raising eyebrows both in and outside of the scientific community for the past year. In 2015 a team of astronomers announced that the star underwent a series of very brief, non-periodic dimming events while it was being monitored by NASA’s Kepler space telescope, and … Continue reading
New Device Helps You Wake Up INSIDE Your Dreams
Most of us have a hard time remembering our dreams, especially the ones that we’d really like to recall. When we do remember them, especially immediately after waking from one, it’s a common feeling to wish you were still in it or, better yet, had a chance to be active in it once you knew it was just a dream. … Continue reading
New Research Shows Bumblebees Have Emotions Which Influences Their Behavior , Just Like Humans
With all the conveniences of modernity, the human condition has unfortunately lost some of its connection with the natural world. As we separate ourselves ever more from other species, we find it more difficult to think of them beyond something to be used or exterminated. Science has a way of reconnecting us, though. A study of bumblebees published in the … Continue reading
This Physicist Says CONSCIOUSNESS Could be a New State of Matter
Consciousness isn’t something scientists like to talk about much. You can’t see it, you can’t touch it, and despite the best efforts of certain researchers, you can’t quantify it. And in science, if you can’t measure something, you’re going to have a tough time explaining it. But consciousness exists, and it’s one of the most fundamental aspects of what makes … Continue reading
Aboriginal Australians Named Oldest Civilization on Earth
According to a recent study, the oldest continuous human civilization up to the present era is currently in Australia. According to a recent DNA study performed by Australian scientists, the ancestry of indigenous Australians stretches back roughly 75,000 years. The study involved DNA sampling of 83 Aboriginal Australians and 25 Highland Papuans from Papua New Guinea. Research revealed that the … Continue reading
Cancer Cells Are Addicted to Sugar
The science is undeniable: preventing and even reversing cancer could be as simple as altering your diet and depriving the cancer of its favorite food – sugar. In 1924, Otto Warburg, Ph.D., a Nobel Prize winning biochemist, proposed the hypothesis that cancer is a metabolic disease, that affects the way cells use food to make energy. Warburg believed that cancer … Continue reading
New Discovery Changes Everything We know about Earth’s Origin
New research published earlier this week in the journal Nature has revealed that the Earth and other planetary objects formed during the early years of the solar system share similar chemical origins – a discovery that is in stark contrast to what scientists have believed for decades. Using data collected through thermal ionization mass spectrometry, Audrey Bouvier, a professor and … Continue reading