Results for "Tim Ball"

Episode 396 – Bioethics and the New Eugenics

Episode 396 – Bioethics and the New Eugenics

At first glance, bioethics might seem like just another branch of ethical philosophy where academics endlessly debate other academics about how many angels dance on the head of a pin in far-out, science fiction like scenarios. What many do not know, however, is that...

How to Play 3D Chess

It's a ridiculous, no good, stupid, rotten meme. You know, the idea that every horrible move that Precedent Trump ever made (like appointing John Bolton or launching Operation Warp Speed) was actually some super-complicated three-dimensional chess move intended to...

5 Ways Biometric Security Can Be Spoofed

Remember when you were a kid and you tried to imagine what the world was going to look like in the far-off, sci-fi-sounding year of 2021? What did you imagine? Weekend trips to the moon? Flying cars and jetpacks to take you around elevated cities? Robot butlers? The...

The Year Ahead – Part 3: Geopolitics

I don't need to tell you that we are living through world-historical times right now. The frequency of world-changing events is accelerating even as the impact of these events on our day-to-day lives is increasing. As Lenin rightly observed: "There are decades where...

The Year Ahead – Part 1: Currency

I don't need to tell you that we are living through world-historical times right now. The frequency of world-changing events is accelerating even as the impact of these events on our day-to-day lives is increasing. As Lenin rightly observed: "There are decades where...

Episode 392 – The Future of Vaccines

Episode 392 – The Future of Vaccines

If the Gateses and the Faucis and the representatives of the international medical establishment get their way, life will not return to normal until the entire planet is vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2. What many do not yet understand, however, is that the vaccines that...

How to Save the World (in One Easy Step!)

Pop quiz: What's the most powerful weapon ever invented? The MOAB? you ask, quizzically. No, I respond authoritatively. The H-bomb? Of course not. The A-bomb, then. Wrong again. The neutron bomb? No. I'll give you a hint: it's not a bomb at all. Ahhh, the Rods from...