tomme

Since this fall I will be applying to college in the USA, I have compiled a hefty list of colleges based on the following criteria: -4-year school; -co-ed or all men; -Biology major; -"full-ride" financial aid available. The problem's that I have quite a lot of choices, hundreds, as a...

Next Monday I am supposed to introduce a bunch of middle school students to Bayes' theorem. I've scoured the Internet for basic examples where Bayes' theorem is applied. Alas, all explanations I've come cross are, I believe, difficult to grasp for the average middle school student. So what I am...

Let's say that I believe that the sky is green. 1) How can I know whether this belief is true? 2) How can I assign a probability to it to test its degree of truthfulness? 3) How can I update this belief? Thank you.

What looks, at the moment, as the most feasible technology that can grant us immortality (e.g., mind uploading, cryonics)? I posed this question to a fellow transhumanist and he argued that cryonics is the answer, but I failed to grasp his explanation. Besides, I am still struggling to learn the...

I'm a high school senior from Europe and in a few months I'll be heading to university. I have a keen interest in the human body. As such, I would like to work in emerging interdisciplinary fields, such as stem cell transplantation and suspended animation. I could go on to...