10+ hour, 6+ min ago  (245+ words) Remember when Neanderthals were slow-moving brutes? I've been away from my desk here for a bit, co-writing a book. But I wanted to drop in for a moment to note all the recent research that obliterates the storied intellectual distinction…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (72+ words) Michael Egnor is being asked to speak in many venues as the result of the publication of his and Denyse O'Leary's 2025 book, The Immortal Mind. On the Ministry Now program at the Daystar Television Network: On a Spanish language program…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (1037+ words) In the last review, Davidwas stuck under a Ferris wheel, and, for some incomprehensible reason, no one bothered to look for him for 2, 000 years, even though he was the most valuable piece of machinery anyone had seen up to that…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (901+ words) Bill Newsome, a neuroscientist of 40 years's standing who is a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, told PM that there is a simple explanation: the two hemispheres are not really separated: "The corpus callosum is also not the only…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (728+ words) In April, Popular Mechanics ran an article pointing to The Immortal Mind: (2025), a book written by neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and myself. The book was targeted as "damaging." Specifically, It's damaging to go out there and say, "I'm a neurosurgeon, and…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago  (131+ words) mindmatters. ai This year's commencement speeches in higher education have witnessed some unexpected incidents. Namely, on a few occasions, college students vocally booed speakers for their comments about AI. This might seem "unexpected" just because we've seen the litany of…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago  (569+ words) mindmatters. ai This year's commencement speeches in higher education have witnessed some unexpected incidents. Namely, on a few occasions, college students vocally booed speakers for their comments about AI. This might seem "unexpected" just because we've seen the litany of…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago  (334+ words) Today's AI sucks up a lot of power that has raised significant environmental and societal impact concerns. Organoid intelligence (OA) " intelligence powered by living cells " might help us get around the environment and impact concerns. Grok-4 required about 310 gigawatt hours…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1134+ words) I get irritated when somebody multiplies two numbers and gets the wrong answer, and then says, "I'm bad at math." "That's an overstatement that gives them undeserved status. They are bad at arithmetic, which is a very specialized area of…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago  (40+ words) mindmatters. ai Science Fiction writers have over the past 100-plus years been warning us about the horrors of a dystopian future, but now we are reaching the point where such Sci-Fi stories are now becoming "Faction....