You have probably seen smartphone apps that purport to find ghosts in your environment. Usually there is some sort of radar-looking interface and fake science to it. It’s all silly and harmless.
But let me tell you about the ghost-finding app that someone is certain to make in the next ten years.
0 CommentsIn my prior post, Jimmy Akin provided the seed argument against physician-assisted death that I will pass through what I call the Rationality Engine.
I have reduced Jimmy’s extensive arguments, along with other notable thoughts on the topic, into “claims” which I will soon evaluate for a verdict.
Today I hope you can check my work and make sure the claims are clear, bias-free, and complete before I start with verdicts.
A lot of my readers here are big-media writers and editors, along with politicians and other thought leaders. So what we do here does influence the real world. And I think it is important because literally nowhere else is anyone even attempting objectivity on this topic.
0 CommentsBackground: A few weeks ago I made a public call for a qualified person to explain to my readers why assisted dying should NOT be legal. I asked because I had never met anyone who held that opinion and I wondered if such a person even existed. (Seriously.)
Jimmy Akin (see his website) volunteered, as did some readers of this blog. Jimmy has experience explaining this very topic, he’s a skilled communicator, and several readers suggested him. He also has a deep personal connection to the topic as you will read in his answers.
0 CommentsAbout ten times a day I see a link on the Internet to a video clip that looks interesting or newsworthy. I usually click that link because apparently I am incapable of learning from experience.
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As a writer, I keep bumping into topics that cannot be communicated for a variety of reasons. I thought I would list them so you see how many there are. That’s the surprising part.
Feel free to skim it to get to the content after.
0 CommentsSports are poorly engineered. Actually, most sports are not engineered at all. Things just evolved over time. That’s why our major sports are unnecessarily dangerous, expensive, and boring – at least by the standards of modern times.
Sports are still fine for watching. Actually, the spectating has never been better. But watching is not playing. It is the playing that is broken.
So I invented a new sport to solve the major problems common to most of the popular sports in America. I will be running tests on it in my backyard this summer to figure out the final rule set. I call it Castleball. And it is a combination of the best parts of soccer, dodgeball and the video game Angry Birds.
0 CommentsWould a Libertarian favor laws designed to reduce the number of new tax laws?
Guest blogger Diana Wales explores some options for the small-government crowd.
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Humor Dimensions: Recognition (headlines about self-driving cars), clever (humans are meat cargo to unionizing cars, and they only dump every 100th passenger), cruel (third panel), and bizarre (cars unionize, robots talk).
0 CommentsSuppose you could push a button and brainwash another person into changing his thinking to match your preferences. Would it be ethical to push that button?
You probably had a bad reaction to the thought of brainwashing another human. It seems counter to every notion of freedom we have. And you certainly would not want anyone to brainwash you.
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