So, the big question is: How can we take this test?

Because you know everything about the afterlife? You've got all the scientific evidence about ghosts? You know for a fact that any and all anecdotal stories are fake or imagined?

If it can answer that question, then yes.

Thank you.

This is a great article. The future is here. Now deal with it.

Isn't that quite famously science fiction?

Let's just get this one out of the way...

So does your local law enforcement....

I LIVE IN A SHUTTLE DOWN BY THE RIVER!

Pan-Galatic Gargle Blasters. My head still hurts years later.

Say what you will, the first Homo sapiens who decided to take a swig of this bitter brownish water with the sour-barley smell (and kept going) probably deserve an award for bravery or stupidity.

It wasn't "invented" at all. It was most likely accidentally discovered after some of our hominid ancestors accidentally ate some fermented fruit off the ground or drank some rain water that had mixed with barley in a pot and then sat and fermented for several days. The fact that we know now that alcohol kills micro…

Now, the Babylonians — those were people who knew how to get nice and Hammurabi'd.

George Church, the molecular biologist whose work informs this book, told me over the weekend that we're going to have brain implants in the next ten years. No, not wires in your head. Pieces of engineered gray matter that enhance cognition, implanted in your brain.

In (Inanimate Carbon) "Rod" we trust!

Anne is an asshole.

To me it looks a lot like Rutger Hauer.

Was it a Chevy Impala?