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Science Not Fiction

Malcolm MacIver

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The Real-Life District 9—Class and Sci-Fi in South Africa

Science Not Fiction | January 12th, 2011 in Aliens, Movies, Politics | 2 Comments »

Would Death Be Easier If You Know You’ve Been Cloned?

Science Not Fiction | December 27th, 2010 in Biology, Biotech, Energy, Genetics, Medicine, Meta, Mind & Brain, Movies, Philosophy, Theatre | 16 Comments »

Killing The Dr. Evils of Iran: Is it Open Season On Scientists?

Science Not Fiction | November 30th, 2010 in Meta, Movies, Philosophy, Politics, Security, Top Posts, TV, Weapons | 13 Comments »

How to Conduct the World’s First Electric Fish Orchestra

Science Not Fiction | November 23rd, 2010 in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »

Mutants, Androids, Cyborgs and Pop Culture Films

Science Not Fiction | November 2nd, 2010 in Aliens, Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Biotech, Cyborgs, Genetics, Movies, Robots | No Comments »

Electric Fish “Plug in” and Turn Their Zapping Into Music

Science Not Fiction | October 23rd, 2010 in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

Caprica Puzzle: If a Digital You Lives Forever, Are You Immortal?

Science Not Fiction | October 5th, 2010 in Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Computers, Cyborgs, Mind & Brain, Philosophy | 18 Comments »

I Have Seen the Furniture, and It Is Robotic

Science Not Fiction | September 28th, 2010 in Robots, Uncategorized | 5 Comments »

Science Fiction and the Modding of Our Future

Science Not Fiction | September 22nd, 2010 in Animation, Books, Comics, Media, Meta, Movies, Philosophy, Theatre, TV, Video Games | 3 Comments »

A Robot That Tries To Rock You Asleep

Science Not Fiction | September 14th, 2010 in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

About Science Not Fiction

Sometime in the future, a group of renegade scientists and technologists will take a time machine to now. They're spilling the secrets of tomorrow here at Discover's Science Not Fiction blog.

▪ Malcolm MacIver is a bioengineer at Northwestern University who studies the neural and biomechanical basis of animal intelligence. He consults for sci-fi films (Tron Legacy, Joss Whedon's The Avengers), and was the science advisor for Caprica. He covers AI and robotics for Science Not Fiction.
▪ Kyle Munkittrick (Web, Twitter) is program director at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He covers transhumanism.
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