Tag: technology
#7 of Our Top Stories of 2016: An Engineered “Minimal” Microbe Is Evidence of Intelligent Design
Where did the first cell come from? As this research prompts us to recall, it’s a chicken-and-egg problem.
A Flash of Insight About Physics, Reality, and DNA Launched Bruce Buff as a Novelist
It’s a remarkable and telling thing about human creativity that ideas come to us so often not through a step-by-step process but in an instant.
Robert Marks: What Computers Will Never Do
Many Artificial Intelligence researchers wrongly believe that intelligence arises from the application of algorithms.
Aimed at Convenience, Artificial Gestation Would Be Unethical Human Experimentation
Efforts continue to permit human gestation outside a woman’s body.
When Embryos Sue
Here is my Solomonic take on a story illustrating the moral conundrums wrought by reproductive technologies.