What kind of rights should it have?
This two pieces of media go well together. BBC Discovery “Can Robots Truly Be Intelligent?” and Why do we give robots female names? Because we don’t want to consider their…
Human-Caused Minerals: Another Sure Sign of the Anthropocene?
To the ever-growing list of uniquely human tweaks to the planet, we can add the creation of 208 minerals. A list compiled by researchers from the Carnegie Institution for Science,…
The cosmic ballet goes on: 15 of our favorite pop-culture eclipses
The Simpsons has prominently featured a solar eclipse twice in its long run, but most memorably in the Season 20 episode “Gone Maggie Gone,” where Marge is stricken blind and…