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more about #event Roklimber: A reminder: "Have we entered the bio-political age" live streaming going on right now [io9.com] Live stream here: [ieet.org] #observationdeck #eve... more » â™ Final â™ : "Look, my mom's coming over I just didn't tell her about the prehensile tail. She'll have a heart attack if she sees that thing... can we can argue a... more » bookwench: The question isn't weather transhumans can live peacefully with humans, it's weather humans can stand to live on a planet with people who have more ad... more » J_Frank_Parnell: Sounds cool, wish I could go. Will these presentations be vidcapped and available for neural download later on? more » Roklimber: Ah, Irvine. I used to live there, and have many friends at UCI. I'd love to attend, but my transporter is off-line at the moment, for the mandatory pe... more » FrankenPC: I think it's time we ditch mother nature altogether. We need to command biology, not let it decide our fate. I've seen articles elsewhere describing... more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: You know David Brin? more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: So I might come, if it's really close to BART and I can get an escort back at the end of the night, and if some of my fellow io9'ers will be there. Ga... more » Alexis: Great! I missed Writers with Drinks, but now I have this. YAY! more » 92BuickLeSabre: Remember that time you all did something like this is NYC? You don't? Well neither do I! *crosses arms in a huff* more » Rasselas: Doctorow? Hey, Norman Mailer was the bomb in Ragtime. more » braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: Oh, man, I was sold until I found out Annalee would be there. more » BongoFury: Is it bad that I saw 'O'Reilly' and 'car bomb' and thought about the auto parts store? O, O, O... O'Rei more » lazyeight: I know it's not about this, but I analyzed the photo and determined that it was, indeed, a car that blew up.I'm CSI:LV, Miami & NY trained. Even t... more » corpore-metal: These things are never where I live. more » Mount_Prion: I'm satisfied with the explosion knowledge I gained from Myth Busters. All anybody really needs to know is how to blow up a toilet. more » -
#event
Have We Entered The Biopolitical Age?
We're obsessed with enhancing our bodies and tuning up our brains; already, our pop culture is full of heroic, cyborg megamutants. But what does it all mean? A seminar in Irvine, CA aims to find out, by exploring "biopolitics." More » -
#forgreatjustice
Cory Doctorow Headlines Geek Reading to Support EFF This Monday in San Francisco
Join scifi greats Cory Doctorow and Rudy Rucker, with io9 editors Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders, in San Francisco Monday night at a benefit for high tech civil liberties organization Electronic Frontier Foundation. More » -
#madscience
The Science of Explosions
Want to know why a car bomb leaves behind a unique signature in the damage it inflicts? You can learn that and more at O'Reilly's Etech Conference, starting today in San Jose. More » -
#arseelektronika
Science Fiction, Technology, and Porn in San Francisco, Starting Tomorrow
Well, pretty much every day in San Francisco is filled with scifi, tech and porn, but this weekend is special. Arse Elektronika, the notorious techno-porn event imported from pervvy Vienna, is starting tomorrow night with a bang. This year, the conference theme is "Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?" I'll be a host for the opening night techno-porno award ceremony tomorrow at CELLSpace (doors at 7; show at 8). I'll be teaching you the dos and don'ts of science fiction sex — with video illustrations, of course. More » -
