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Questions and answers with Ben GoertzelI was searching for answers to an old issue that bugged me for years: is there anything like ‘chinese logic’. By chinese logic I refer to odd reasoning patterns, that do not seem to follow what in the west is called ‘logical thinking’.

Feb. 18 SECOND THURSDAY ART NIGHT This open-gallery event, rescheduled from last week, includes a 6-8 p.m. reception at the Target Gallery for “Imprint,” a juried exhibition of contemporary printmaking; a printmaking demonstration at 7:30 in Studio 325; and music by Mercury Fools the Alchemist. 6-9…

Eglin AFB FL (AFNS) Feb 11, 2010 – Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Imagination Engines, Inc., a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract to develop advanced algorithms for mobile autonomous robots. The Air Force needs creative terrain-sensing and multivalued behavior-fusion algorithms for these robots due to the high uncertainty and complexity of battlefield environments.

Image of work by Adam “5100″ Feibelman, courtesy Project 4 The neighborhood around the Convention Center seems to be the hot spot for new galleries lately. First Long View Gallery moved a few blocks down 9th Street to their new location last autumn, followed by Civilian Art Projects’ move to the old Warehouse spot on 7th Street a few months ago. If you remember, all three tenants of the Penn …

Look into the future with our singularity experts. A Project inspired by GOOD’s miniseries on the singularity by Michael Anissimov and Roko Mijic. Over the past few months we’ve been lucky to have Michael Anissimov of Accelerating Future and Roko Mijic of Transhuman Goodness writing a series of posts about the future of technology and artificial intelligence called Singularity 101. With these …

What They Say Searching for the key to save a world beyond hope. Tsutomu Nihei’s sci-fi horror epic…

TARA HAGAN The Observer Visitors to this month’s First Friday event will have the chance to ÔMeet the Robinson’s’ at Stardust Book Lounge/Rhapsody Glassworks. The downtown venue will feature Michael and Isabelle Robinson — a husband and wife duo who will offer a mix of photography and music.[...]

TARA HAGAN The Observer Visitors to this month’s First Friday event will have the chance to ÔMeet the Robinson’s’ at Stardust Book Lounge/Rhapsody Glassworks. The downtown venue will feature Michael and Isabelle Robinson — a husband and wife duo who will offer a mix of photography and music.[...]

Aaron Johnson is Kick-Ass We’ll try not to hype this up too much, but we are very-happy-head-exploding-excited to announce that the Opening Night Film for SXSW 2010 is the World Premiere of the filthy-mouthed, bloody-fisted, superhero re-imagining Kick-Ass , directed by Matthew Vaughn ( Layer Cake ) and starring Aaron Johnson ( Nowhere Boy , the upcoming John Lennon biopic). About a month ago …

Sci-fi graphic novel Transhuman explores the brave new world of genetic engineering. RIZAL SOLOMON reviews. Transhuman Image Comics TRANSHUMAN takes multiple genres and turns them into something else entirely. It’s sci-fi. It’s satire. It’s a drama about the relentless pursuit of dreams.

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TYLER KULA The Observer A Sarnia woman is using the First Friday stage this month to invoke remembrance and respect.[...]

The arrest of a member of an anti-Scientology group on terrorism-related charges last month thrust Las Vegas into the forefront of a worldwide dispute between the group and the celebrity-laden church.

Between the Arch and the Civil Courts Building, at the corner of 8th and Market Street, lies the newly opened Citygarden.

GENEROSITY An Enhancement By Richard Powers Farrar Straus Giroux. 296 pp. $25 Sixteen years after Peter Kramer’s “Listening to Prozac,” Richard Powers has heard the alarming implications of treatments that let us buy better moods and personalities. His cerebral new novel offers a chilling examina…

(PhysOrg.com) — In the year 2009, when astronauts live in a space station, people send messages around the world with the touch of a finger, and diseases such as polio have virtually been eradicated from the Earth, warfare between nations still includes men with rifles shooting at each other.

This week my pregnant wife had her 20-week ultrasound, a crucial examination that’s ripe with hope but fraught with nerves. As the sonographer checked bones, scanned kidneys and counted toes, I kept fearing the words, “Your baby is a baboon.”