The 2022 US midterm elections are perhaps the second strangest contest in recent US political history. Pollsters on both sides got it quite wrong – there was no predicted “Red Wave”, let alone the more popularly talked about “Red Tsunami”. Instead, we are witnessing a repeat of 2020 – a slow grind towards Democrat victories […]
Here are some of my thoughts on the successful Brexit vote, shared on the Facebook page for Exposing Faux Capitalism: Corporate mass media hypocrisy: When democratic referendums are in favour of being part of some bigger political union, they want to move on after saying how great the outcome was, yet, in the rare case […]
Researchers have figured out how to send thoughts over the Internet using a brain-to-brain connection and a huge magnet. What could go wrong?
It sounds kind of cool, at face-value: two people can play a game over the Internet by reading each other’s thoughts. They don’t have to look at each other, and they don’t have to talk to each other. The details of the experiment, and its findings, are published in the journal PLOS One:
