A new religion wants to welcome advanced artificial intelligence

Image: Getty Images/Blend Images There’s a new church for tech-minded folks, and it sounds like something out of a science fiction novel. “Way of the Future” (or WOTF, as they abbreviate it) is 1. Not a joke, and 2. According to them (and this is real) “about creating a peaceful and respectful transition of who […]

Search engines’ role in radicalisation must be challenged, finds study

Nearly 500,000 online searches a month return Islamist material, says report that advocates multilateral approach to removing extremist sites More than 484,000 Google keyword searches a month from around the world, including at least 54,000 searches in the UK, return results dominated by Islamist extremist material, a report into the online presence of jihadism has […]

From the Vietnam war to Islam the key chapters in Ali’s life

Wherever the great dramas, triumphs and tragedies of a generation were, there was Muhammad Ali Ali and Vietnam Cassius Clay, as he was then, was not so much a fighter for peace as a peaceable fighter who needed a reason to fight and Vietnam was not that reason. He might have feared he could serve […]

Mathematics and Religion

Roundtable discussion with Dominic Balestra, Loren Graham, Edward Nelson, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, and Max Tegmark. Video Rating: 4 / 5 Course 02: Discrete Mathematics (Arsdigita University) NOTE: I will delete off-topic comments, especially offensive ones related to the lecturer’s religious …