Archive for September 2018

U.S. government embraces climate catastrophe, but is it a 'crisis'?

The United States government has now officially embraced climate change as a catastrophe in the making. Only it contends that the catastroph...

Alfred Korzybski , the father of general semantics , first uttered what must now seem like a well-worn phrase: "The map is not the terr...

"The Expanse" is a popular science fiction television series (based on a book series of the same name) that at first seems to fol...

The so-called CRISPR technique for editing the genes of plants and animals is being hailed as a more acceptable face of genetic engineering...

I was watching an episode of the science-fiction noir thriller "The Expanse" recently. Set hundreds of years in the future, the ...