06Sep 2025 by Post

Here It Comes: First Transgenderism, Next Transableism

amputee, Anthony Kennedy, arms, bioethics, Body Identity Integrity Disorder, body parts, capacities, Culture, Daily Mail, Due Process Clause, insurance fraud, insurance scam, legs, limiting principle, Medicine, mental illness, Neil Hopper, Obergefell v. Hodges, paraplegic, personal autonomy, self-definition, self-restraint, sexual obsession, societal expectations, spinal cord, Transgender
Why is it not also appropriate to cut off unwanted arms or snip spinal cords if that brings emotional relief? Source
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20Dec 2024 by Post

Life and Origami: Lessons from the Art of Paper-Folding

AI systems, amino acids, Artificial Intelligence, boats, brain, butterflies, cranes, Creativity, Cyclommatus metallifer, DNA, embryonic development, Evolution, flowers, folds, information content, Intelligent Design, intelligent entities, Isaac Gonzalez, large language models, nucleotides, origami, planes, simulations, spinal cord, Works of Satoshi Kamiya 2
The differences between an origami figure and a living thing are more instructive than their similarities. Source
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17Nov 2023 by Post

I Just Want to Say One Word to You: Graphene

aluminum, Ariel Malik, Avadain, batteries, Bradley Larschan, cement, COSM 2023, Dustin Hoffman, electric vehicles, electronics, entrepreneurs, George Gilder, graphene, James Tour, Kevin Wyss, Medicine, mice, modernity, Nobel Prize, Physics, Earth & Space, plastics, Rice University, spinal cord, technological applications, The Graduate
Graphene was first characterized in 2004 when two researchers took graphite and exfoliated individual sheets of graphene using scotch tape. Source
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