One of the panels I wanted to see but missed at this year's Worldcon was entitled "The Ethics of Generation Ships." The panel description ran to the effect of: "was it ethical for people to consign their children and grandchildren to a voyage they had no choice in ( Read more... )

I'm back in Chicago, but not back at work (that's Monday's curse). While doing something close to nothing on the Internet, I stumbled upon "the forbidden island," AKA North Sentinel Island. This 28-square mile island in the Andaman Island chain in the Indian Ocean is inhabited by the most unknown people on Earth. I mean that quite literally, in ( Read more... )