Christopher Michael Langan is an extremely intelligent man, so much so that his IQ is said to be off the charts. Several media sources including 20/20 have reported his IQ as having been measured somewhere between 195 and 210. Much of his high school years were spent in independent study teaching himself topics such as math, … [Read more...]

As we Canadians head out to take part in Canada Day celebrations I thought I would take a moment to reflect on what it means to be Canadian and why I love calling this great country home. The other evening I turned on the news, as I do each and every evening, before retiring for the night and what did I see? I watched stories … [Read more...]

Matthew Brown is a talented young artist who creates short videos. Not ordinary short videos mind you but pieces of art that tell a story. Nearly a year ago he visited the Holocaust Museum in Miami Beach, which is home to a series of sculptures by Kenneth Treister, and started filming. The result is a short film called SHOAH. To … [Read more...]

We've all seen the movies and the television shows which portray machines, most notably computers, as sentient beings. Whether they are benign entities like Star Trek's Data or much more malevolent like the Terminator, they have become common place throughout science fiction. But is the possibility of creating a sentient … [Read more...]