Consciousness Matters

from The New York Times Consciousness Isn’t a Mystery. It’s Matter. by Galen Strawson / THE STONE Credit Ullstein bild, via Getty Images  Every day, it seems, some verifiably intelligent person tells us that we don’t know what consciousness is. The nature of...

Demon Physics

from New Scientist Matter, energy… knowledge: How to harness physics’ demonic power Running a brain-twisting thought experiment for real shows that information is a physical thing – so can we now harness the most elusive entity in the cosmos? By Stephen Battersby...

Finger-Lickin’ Good

from PASTE Magazine KFC is Making Edible Chicken Nail Polish By Abbey White Add this to the running list of the world’s weirdest things no one asked for: an edible nail polish from KFC. The fast food chain famous for its fried chicken and getting attacked by Peta...

KIC 8462852

from TED.com Did we just discover aliens? Scientists aren’t ruling it out by Brian Greene Stocksy Aliens are not a thing. We know this, right? Well, maybe. Turns out that, almost despite themselves, some of the world’s leading astronomers are taking seriously the...