Brian Gallagher
Will Humans Be Able to Control Computers That Are Smarter Than Us?
Let’s consider the fear that once surrounded another powerful technology: recombinant DNA.
Brain Damage Saved His Music
After a chunk of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat Martino got his groove back.
Why Are We So Obsessed With Mugshot Hotties?
On June 18, a photo of a very handsome man was posted on the Web. It wasn’t intended to “break the Internet” Kardashian-style, but that’s pretty much what happened, if only on a slightly smaller scale. Within 48 hours, the portrait garnered 62,000 “Likes” on Facebook and became an online spectacle. Today the Like count […]
How to Avoid the Desperate Future of “Interstellar”
In 2011 America’s astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, was on Real Time with Bill Maher discussing the proposed termination of NASA’s James Webb Telescope, which the House Appropriations Committee had decried as “billions of dollars over budget and plagued by poor management.” Tyson went on to deliver what is now one of his most famous quotes: Nautilus […]
Your Brain Can’t Handle the Moon
How the moon stirs tension between your conscious and subconscious minds.
