TONIGHT’S SHOW is more stream of consciousness than usual, as we follow a meandering path from the earthquake in Chile through a report from Canada’s Inuits that the Sun is out of position, the UN’s call for global environmental governance, America’s new Borg-like embassy in London, and finally to the trans-and post-humanist movement.
FRINGE SCIENCE meets harsh reality: Dr. Amy Bishop, the accused killer of three colleagues in the biology department at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, was working on a neural computer, blending human cells with a computer processor into what appears to be the first step toward a living artificial intelligence. Also: Carbon currency and prophecy; Joe Stack, patriot or coward; the manipulation of the Tea Party movement); and Bruce Ivins, official patsy of the 9/11 anthrax attacks.
THE SURPRISE election of heretofore unknown Republican Scott Brown to the Senate seat held by Edward Kennedy amounts to the detonation of a reality bomb in the White House. President… Read more »