Should We Be Scared of Hostile Aliens?
I recently read a paper in Arxiv which made me smile. It talked about the risks of contacting Extra-Terrestrial civilizations: what if they are waiting for the opportunity to attack us? Shouldn’t we...
View ArticleCompassion, Intelligence and Evolution
Today’s article will be highly speculative. Please don’t take it more seriously than it deserves. I want to speak about compassion. By compassion I mean the ability to feel some other being’s pain. I...
View ArticleMammoths and Chickenosaurus
I just read this very interesting article by Leonard Finkelman in Massimo Pigliucci’s blog “Rationally Speaking.” It is about de-extinction: bringing species back to life. If you’ve followed the...
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