During the next 20 years:

Those people’s lives weren’t filled with tv, internet, and comment section trolling. Their entire existence revolved around hunting. I’d argue they knew exactly what they were drawing with a high level of feature accuracy, same as you’d expect from any pro in their trade, even if the drawing itself is rough.

You can’t compare modern society to a hundred years ago and then say “the most leisure time in human history”. Just because people a thousand years ago or ten thousand years ago didn’t read books or watch TV doesn’t mean they had no leisure time. In fact, in many cases in hunter gather societies their material needs…

I was a Pharmacy student back in '66, and everyone I knew, as well as myself, thought the drug was Valium ( diazepam ), for a couple of reasons

ETA preface saying, i have no problem eating GMOfoods, i just want to know.

One area in which Western leaders have most certainly lagged behind is the effective use of media to promote its perspective. Much of this has to do with the independent nature of media in democratic countries; freedom of the press is a much-vaunted institution of free thinking and critical societies who look to the…

A tremendous overreaction, Robert. It was one pithy slogan, not a campaign. It wasn't a "campaign" against science, it was a pithy slogan that meant "we're all natural with no chemicals or added preservatives or whatever". The construction of the sentence matters. They are telling their customers that their cups are…

Can someone point me to an actual proper takedown of Jared Diamond? A lot of intelligent people that I respect say that he's simply wrong but for some reason people just focus on saying "he's racist" a lot and never tell me why. For example: It seems absurd to deny that environmental and geographic factors influence…

Better title: "Proper environmental care causes ecosystems to return quicker than we thought."

I read the article, shared it, discussed it. I am in favor in more analytical research, and fact gathering. I would like to see the studies cited get peer reviewed and evaluated without being arbitrarily dismissive.

I do not think that there is a knife buttered enough to cut through widely accepted assumptions about…

This is the problem I have with rationalist, materialists and atheists. To say we only go as far as we can experience through material and scientific means seems limiting to me. Just because something can't be measured doesn't mean it is not there. The thing I think these kind of conversations are useful for is…

There is that ignorant thinking again and it is a nasty weed to kill because it is deep rooted. We are meat, bone, blood, nerve and organ. But we are also thought and energy, in fact many energies, waves and other unknowns. Consciousness is not thought, it is not meat, it is the awareness of self. That is not in a…

A large problem is the pre-conception that consciousness stems from the brain, or the head. We talk like we know about our mind and universe, but really, we almost literally know nothing. These articles are interesting but useless, the arguments and theories will go on forever.

I don't really want to be that guy but...

As a humble biotech student i can very easily dispel your logic. Genes do not rearrange with complete randomness in nature. Crossbreeding potatoes will never yield an apple in the lenght of human history. With genetic engineering one could make an apple out of a potato in one sitting, ideally. Very soon, something…