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The New Techno-Eschatology: AGI and Secular Religion

March 25, 2025 · 5 min read

Some techies today fear hell—not from a god, but from a computer.  Human beings have a habit of wrapping up big unknowns in familiar stories. Even in our high-tech, secular age, the quest to create Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) often comes with a kind of religious or end-of-the-world fervor. Some communities of self-described rationalists speak […]

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Biology

The Fish That Forgot Where Home Was

Picture this: You return to your childhood neighborhood, only to find that your old playground is now a parking lot. The trees you climbed? Gone. The pond where you skipped rocks? Paved over. Now, imagine this on an oceanic scale—except instead of people, it’s fish. That’s exactly what’s happened to New Zealand’s snapper. For centuries, […]

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Why Thousands of People Move Like a Giant, Invisible Vortex

Picture this: You’re at a massive festival, packed shoulder to shoulder with thousands of people. Suddenly, the crowd starts moving—not chaotically, but in a coordinated, eerie swirl. No one is directing it, yet somehow, everyone moves in sync. What’s going on? Are we all just mindless particles caught in a human tornado? It turns out, […]

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News

Next Week in Science, February 21, 2024

It’s discouraging, I know. Some colleagues over at the Tango 2 Foundation have provided a nice form letter to and link to help contact your representatives and tell them to use the power of the Legislative Branch to stop this freaking insanity. You can find your reps here: https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials Here’s a script, but please modify […]

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Biology

The Cannibal Bees: How Honey Bees Eat Their Own to Survive

Picture this: A thriving honey bee colony buzzing with life, queen bees laying thousands of eggs, and worker bees tirelessly tending to their larvae. But then—disaster strikes. The flowers dry up, pollen runs out, and suddenly, the colony faces a brutal choice. Starvation or… cannibalism? That’s right. When food gets scarce, worker bees do something […]

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Biology

Are We Living in a New Epoch? Scientists Just Measured How Much We Know

Picture this: A future geologist cracks open the Earth’s crust and finds layers of plastic, radioactive isotopes from nuclear tests, and chicken bones—yes, chicken bones—fossilized into the rock. Welcome to the Anthropocene, a proposed new epoch where human activity has become the defining force shaping the planet. But here’s the real question: How many of […]

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Biology

Can Darkness Erase Time? The Secret Life of Cave Spiders

If you were trapped in a pitch-black cave with no access to the sun, would your body still know when to wake up and when to sleep? Turns out, evolution has been running this eerie experiment for millions of years, and the results are weirder than you’d expect. A team of researchers recently dove deep […]

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Society

How Counter-Terrorism Laws are Choking Civil Society

What do climate activists, LGBTQ+ support groups, and humanitarian organizations have in common? According to counter-terrorism laws worldwide, they could all be threats. Yes, you read that right. Governments have long justified harsh regulations in the name of national security. Still, a growing body of research reveals an unsettling side effect. These laws are being […]

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