| Sigman and the skewed screen of death - Tue, 22 May 2012 09:23:21 +0000 |
The media is buzzing this morning with the shocking news that children spend ‘more than six hours in front of screens’. The news is shocking, however, because it’s wrong. The sound bite stems from an upcoming talk on ‘Alcohol and electronic media: units of consumption’ by evidence-ambivalent psychologist Aric Sigman who is doing a guest [...] |
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| Legal highs making the drug war obsolete - Sat, 19 May 2012 21:32:25 +0000 |
If you want any evidence that drugs have won the drug war, you just need to read the scientific studies on legal highs. If you’re not keeping track of the ‘legal high’ scene it’s important to remember that the first examples, synthetic cannabinoids sold as ‘Spice’ and ‘K2′ incense, were only detected in 2009. Shortly [...] |
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| Uploaded to the Life network - Sat, 19 May 2012 14:21:57 +0000 |
A fantastic short film about what you might see when your mind is uploaded to an online storage cloud in 2052. It’s subtitled “the Singularity, ruined by lawyers”. The piece is by futurist Tom Scott who obviously sees the consciousness uploading business far more pessimistically than me. Personally, I’m going to get uploaded to a [...] |
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