The Novacene Coming

by | Sep 3, 2019 | Weirdness

from NBC News Cyborgs will replace humans and remake the world, James Lovelock says ‘Our supremacy as the prime understanders of the cosmos is rapidly coming to end.’ By Corey S. Powell Tim Peacock / for NBC News For tens of thousands of years, humans have...

Cyborg Pole Dancing – Yea, Novacene!

by | Sep 2, 2019 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness

from The Daily Mail Gyrating ROBOTS debut at French pole dancing club, with the androids performing alongside human counterparts By SOPHIE TANNO A French nightclub has caused a stir after it exhibited pole-dancing robots donning high heels. The gyrating robots had...

Not with a whimper…

by | Sep 1, 2019 | Weirdness

from Greenwich Time The many ways our world could end by Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post The man-made fires ravaging huge expanses of the Amazon rainforest have – if only for a brief moment – trained global attention on a looming calamity facing the...

The Person With a Phone on Their Face

by | Aug 28, 2019 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness

from c|net The fantasy of being disconnected An overactive world is hard to break away from. by SCOTT STEIN Scott Stein/CNET It takes a boat ride, in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, to get me to finally feel offline. Which makes me feel pretty sad. But it reminds me...