Pop Bioethics » Weather http://www.popbioethics.com Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:03:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Well, Crap http://www.popbioethics.com/2010/04/well-crap/ http://www.popbioethics.com/2010/04/well-crap/#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:57:40 +0000 Kyle Munkittrick http://www.poptranshumanism.com/?p=2165 So I was supposed to be going to London for the Humanity+ conference this Saturday, but then Iceland had to go and be Iceland by having one of its many volcanoes start exploding and spewing ash everywhere. Unless you’ve been totally bereft of news lately and this website is the very first thing you check, [...]]]> So I was supposed to be going to London for the Humanity+ conference this Saturday, but then Iceland had to go and be Iceland by having one of its many volcanoes start exploding and spewing ash everywhere. Unless you’ve been totally bereft of news lately and this website is the very first thing you check, you’ve by now realized that my flight was canceled. The worst part about the whole thing was that Virgin didn’t cancel my flight till about 10 hours before, leaving me with an evil ray of hope to tantalize and tempt my optimistic side before brutally crushing me with reality.

Virgin Atlantic and Student Universe were both great, however, so I recommend working with them if you can.

I don’t know if the Humanity+ UK folks are going to live stream any of the presentations or how it’s all going to work, but I fully intend on making it to one of these conferences eventually.

]]> http://www.popbioethics.com/2010/04/well-crap/feed/ 0 Thought For The Morning http://www.popbioethics.com/2009/12/thought-for-the-mornings/ http://www.popbioethics.com/2009/12/thought-for-the-mornings/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:56:33 +0000 Kyle Munkittrick http://www.poptranshumanism.com/?p=1198 It is currently very, very cold in the middle of the country. According to Will Wilkinson’s twitter, it’s -4 degrees in whichever part of the godforsaken mid-West he happens to be. Yet, despite that temperature being fatal to a naked person, I’m guessing people are still getting along just fine. Yeah, all that extra [...]]]> It is currently very, very cold in the middle of the country. According to Will Wilkinson’s twitter, it’s -4 degrees in whichever part of the godforsaken mid-West he happens to be. Yet, despite that temperature being fatal to a naked person, I’m guessing people are still getting along just fine. Yeah, all that extra snow is a problem, but nothing a few plows and salt can’t handle.

Humans not just surviving, but being only inconvenienced by blizzards is, to me, one of the great testaments to our species’ ability to adapt. Can you imagine what it’s going to be like when the electrical grid is replaced by self-sufficient, sustainable energy?

Another related thought: is government a technology?

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