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A new TV series based on the Alien franchise is in the works from Noah Hawley — who says it’s time for the xenomorphs to sink their claws into the executives who sent so many […]

Human life as technology from Greek mythology to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. How long have we been imagining artificial life? A remarkable set of ancient Greek myths and art shows that more than 2,500 years ago, […]

Over the last month, Clinton Jones, aka pwnisher, challenged 3D artists with the Alternate Realities CG challange. He provided an animation for everyone to work from, and the results were stunning. A man carries a […]

In the internet era, true counterculture is difficult to see, and even harder to find—but that doesn’t mean it’s not there. Taken from the title of Chinese sci-fi writer Liu Cixin’s 2008 book, “the dark […]

Twitter might ironically be alerting us to the absurdity and shallowness of intellectual life practiced on its terms. Too many would-be Twitter contrarians end up sounding like those they critique. They are victims of a […]

The internet fostered a revolution, indeed. But it wasn’t a renaissance. Revolutionaries act as if they are destroying the old and starting something new. More often than not, however, these revolutions look more like Ferris […]

Obama was asked about the issue of UFOs during an interview on Tuesday, the former president confirming “footage and records” of unidentified objects exist. With the defense department and intelligence agencies due to deliver a […]