The best way to make it easy for the low-brow followers to kill the enemy is to dehumanize it. That is what right-wing talking-heads have been doing for a while. Of course, if someone actually gets killed, they did not do it - they were just telling "jokes" on radio or TV.
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The History Channel ran a two-hour program on Einstein last night. I had meant to plug this in advance, but got distracted by the Screamy Baby Fun-Time Hour yesterday, and didn't have time to post.
The first half of NOVA's Absolute Zero program aired last night, and I was able to watch the whole thing.
Ethan Zuckerman offers a recap of the latest developments in sumo:
The forthcoming Sizzle, Randy Olson's follow-up to the well-received A Flock of Dodos, is a movie that's trying to do three things at the same time: 1) provide some information about global warming, 2) make a point about how scientific information is presented to the pub
My understanding is that the term "posthuman" was used by 90s techno-libertarians and cyber-Utopians and meant to be positive - self-directed evolution freed from the constraints of nature, part of the faddish smart drinks / virtual reality / body modification zeitgeist. (Chronicled in books like Mark Dery's 'Escape Velocity.') Later, the term was adopted by social conservatives, who related it to CS Lewis' 'Abolition of Man,' as a warning about biotechnologies and changes to core institutions.