I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.

Book depository is nothing new; there've been outlets selling books internationally via mail order for many decades - the only change is that it's now easier to find and use such services.

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.