Mormon Transhumanist Association

Texas Archaeological Dig Challenges Assumptions about First AmericansScientific American for July 3, 2008 reported on new discoveries about the Clovis people.Ancient stone artifacts reveal the day-to-day lives of Clovis people while offering tantalizing clues of an even earlier culture. Pesticides Persist In Ground WaterScienceDaily for July 2, 2008 reported on pesticides contamination of ground-water.The downward movement of pesticide degradation products, formed in situ, can also contribute to... [read more]

I think it would be convenient for further discussion on the free will issue to lay out a bit of what I take to be the metaphysical requirements for currently defensible accounts of Libertarian Free Will. (LFW) I’m here simply ignoring theories, such as Kane’s Event-Libertarian Free Will, that have had significant criticisms [...]

After much pondering and prayer, I have decided that I would like to start working for the church in some sort of technology capacity. I feel that the Lord has blessed me lots of idea’s and a passion for technology. With that in mind, I am going to write a series of posts about using [...]

This is the first in a series of posts about using web technologies to augment spiritual education. In this post I would like to being laying out the framework for why technology is so important in the church and how the Lord has been using it to further his work on the earth. I [...]

Many apologies for the light posting. The beginning of the medical school year always seems to kick work demands up a notch. I have something wonderful, insightful, and enthralling coming up as soon as I figure out what it is. Until then, here is the collection of all the enthralling stuff I wish I could [...]

Clay Shirky gave a remarkable talk at a conference I attended this last year. Here Comes Everybody is his latest book. In the book he discusses how wikis, blogs and other contemporary telecommunications devices are fundamentally changing society. Bookmark to:

Texas Archaeological Dig Challenges Assumptions about First AmericansScientific American for July 3, 2008 reported on new discoveries about the Clovis people.Ancient stone artifacts reveal the day-to-day lives of Clovis people while offering tantalizing clues of an even earlier culture. Pesticides Persist In Ground WaterScienceDaily for July 2, 2008 reported on pesticides contamination of ground-water.The downward movement of pesticide degradation products, formed in situ, can also contribute to... [read more]

The Lighted Candle Society is one of the great organizations fighting pornography. They just launched a Web site PornographyStats.com, featuring detailed information on the pornography market, statistics on how pornography affects society, and an interactive guide to scientific literature about sexually-explicit material and the brain. Bookmark:

A journey to the different Mormon islands on Second life reveals characters who defend and attack the LDS Church.

Jeff Sutherland is one of the co-creators of “scrum.” Scrum is an agile software methodology. In this talk, Jeff describes how he consulted with Google on their AdWords project and helped them implement Scrum. It’s an enjoyable talk. I listened while cleaning my office this morning. Make sure you peek at the slides once in a [...]