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...]
Is it possible for one to peer into the future? If so, what does that mean? Is the future set or does one merely see a possible future? Scientists in Edinburgh have been intrigued by a black box, or a random event generator, that seemingly has an uncanny ability to foresee future events. The machine apparently sensed the … [Read more...]
How many forum members does it take to change a light bulb? 1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently 7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs 1 to move it … [Read more...]