After that last post, some of you may be thinking "But, Meredith, I don't think I've ever heard you talk about transhumanism before outside of the context of Vernor Vinge's novels. Are you an extropian, too? What's up with this futurism stuff ( Read more... )

Something that's been annoying me on Twitter lately is the cries of horror and outrage that 200,000 people have been evacuated from the area around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors and that iodine tablets have been distributed. This isn't something I can address effectively in 140-character splurts, so I'll talk about it here ( Read more... )