The latest additions to the ISS might not be entirely human. According to Russia's Roscosmos space agency, two humanoid robots might be joining the ISS crew. The robots called FEDOR -- short for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research -- could be headed to space as early as next August. Just like their human counterparts, they'd... Continue Reading →

No one wants to pay you for your labor. You read that correctly—your work has no economic value. Society needs you to work, or civilization will fall, but we're not gonna pay you on our dime. Various politicians might give lip service to the importance of the family or the rights for workers to earn... Continue Reading →

In the first episode of the new “Interesting People in Interesting Times” podcast, recorded March 5th Andrew Yang, tech entrepreneur, founder of Venture for America, and author of The War on Normal People: The Truth About America’s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future, discusses his latest endeavor — vying for the Democratic party nomination to run for President of the United States. Yang... Continue Reading →

Researchers made an enormous leap recently by moving one step closer to stable fusion nuclear energy. They discovered a way to stabilize plasma in fusion reactors, thus preventing temperatures and densities from oscillating. It is believed that nuclear fusion is the answer to providing inexhaustible green energy just as long as researchers can control this... Continue Reading →

For Rachel Conner, the 2018 election season has been a moment of revelation. A 27-year-old social worker, Ms. Conner voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primaries, spurning the more liberal Bernie Sanders, whom many of her peers backed. But Ms. Conner changed course in this year’s campaign for governor, after concluding that Democrats could... Continue Reading →

Canada become the second country in the world to fully legalise marijuana, after the senate approved legislation paving the way for recreational cannabis to be legally bought and sold within the next two or three months. Canada is only the second country in the world — and the first G7 nation — to implement legislation... Continue Reading →

YOU DON’T TYPICALLY find philosophical bickering at an FDA public meeting. But then again, this was no ordinary public meeting. On Thursday, the agency convened a scrum on so-called cultured meat—animal tissue grown in a lab, derived from just a handful of cells taken from a cow or chicken or fish. Experts, lab-meat companies, and... Continue Reading →

Waymo, the Alphabet self-driving car company that was spun out of Google, is picking up speed. The company’s autonomous vehicles just drove 8 million miles on public roads. What’s more, it took the company just one month to go from 7 million miles to 8 million miles driven. “We’re driving now at the rate of... Continue Reading →

It may soon be possible for parents to edit the genes of their children before they're born, changing their DNA in ways that could affect their health and enhance their senses, strength, or even intelligence. The situation is so close to becoming reality, in fact, that genetic experts have pushed in recent years for more... Continue Reading →

A great deal has been written in recent years about the perils of automation. With predicted mass unemployment, declining wages, and increasing inequality, clearly we should all be afraid. By now it’s no longer just the Silicon Valley trend watchers and technoprophets who are apprehensive. In a study that has already racked up several hundred... Continue Reading →