Ronald Bailey Hangs Out WIth the Bioethicists at the BEINGS 2015 Summit
Is life better than death; health better disease; wealth better than poverty? Opinions vary.
Is life better than death; health better disease; wealth better than poverty? Opinions vary.
Is progress itself an ethical obligation? Opinions vary.
Archbishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo has got something he wants to say to you...
Top story at Drudge is CBS article promoting discredited activist claims about electromagnetic hypersensitivity.
Pointless economic regulation cripples innovation and speeds the growth of big government.
Plaintiffs coerced into prostitution as teens alleged that Backpage was complicit in their trafficking.
New York's BitLicense will further complicate an already byzantine regulatory regime.
Wired argues that "Silicon Valley is Letting Go of Its Techie Island Fantasies" on insufficient evidence.
"Dear Mr. President. There are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three."
The former Indiana governor and current president of Purdue University gets real about making the public sector cheaper - and better.
The former Indiana governor and current president of Purdue University gets real about making the public sector cheaper - and better.
Congress's decision to mandate an expensive and complicated safety system made American travelers less safe.
Frontline examines the brutality detailed in the Senate's report on CIA interrogations.
If you become president, think less about history and more about restraining the size, scope, and spending of government.
Wired co-founder to be feted with Jane Metcalfe at tonight's Webby Awards
Voluntary GMO labeling will express religious views and strictures much like halal and kosher labels do now.
The global financial crisis is responsible for 80 percent of Europe's GHG reductions.
Bitcoin has the potential to take the friction out of sending money abroad, but delivering on that potential isn't easy.
Don't chalk the Lily camera up to millennial narcissism just yet.
By unlocking mechanisms that evolved in the brain, they've halted implicit racial bias and found the first female advantage in spatial cognition.
How technology is freeing both patients and physicians from the medical industrial complex
Threatening the 3D weapon guru over gunmaking files on the Internet violates his First Amendment rights--and everyone's Second Amendment rights
Can he really build a supersonic tube transport system, which could go from LA to San Francisco in 35 minutes?
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity isn't a real thing
Artists wanted to "draw a parallel between what Snowden was fighting for and the ideals that the American revolutionaries were fighting for."
The company hopes to profit from groundless customer fears
The food chain tries to profit from anti-biotech propaganda
Free Speech and Right to Bear Arms Both Violated by Keeping Him From Spreading Software that Helps People Make Guns At Home, Wilson insists.
"This has shown that anyone can illegally manufacture guns with a 3D printer."
...but were afraid to ask. Q&A with R.U. Sirius & Jay Cornell, authors of Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism & the Singularity.
The court's cellphone decision implies that remotely stored information has no Fourth Amendment protection.
A pretty good way to discourage people from using gene testing services
'Third Party Doctrine' wins again.
Science: Searching really hard until you find what you want?
This latest failure of criminal science again highlights the need for massive reforms at law enforcement agencies.
The debunked #BaltimoreLootCrew tweets find a new way to feed fearmongering.
Climate model projections fail even worse, running way too hot, if these data stand up to scrutiny
Law enforcement leaders seem concerned that due process helps defendants. That's the point.
Free speech is never a justification for violence - or submitting to the thug's veto.
GiveDirectly co-founder on the value of charitable cash transfers.