An article in the UK Daily Telegraph entitled “The ‘black sheep’ brain chip start-up backed by Bezos and Gates" and a fascinating Tucker Carlson interview with a German Scientist Dr. Michael Nehls entitled “The Indoctrinated Brain” raise all sorts of deep and intriguing questions about consciousness, biotechnology, and mind control. Mind control and consciousness-bending technology are current buzz topics in the popular press being followed with sci-fi fascination rather than any insight into fundamentals. Gates, Musk, and Bezos are investing in projects to implant chips in human brains with the apparent belief that humans will end up directly controlling computers by just thinking. Or Will Computers Start Controlling...

In 1953, the same year that DNA was discovered, Mount Everest climbed and Queen Elizabeth crowned, a graduate student in Chicago passed an electrical spark through a mixture of methane, ammonia and hydrogen sulphide in close proximity to water. This was believed to correspond to a flash of lightning in earth’s early atmosphere. Within a few days the mixture contained some primitive amino acids—carbon-based organic compounds related to those the body utilises from our diet to build proteins. The media was very busy that year announcing that the mystery of life’s origins had been solved. According to these reports, life came about as a result of...

New Zealand Constitutional Reform—The Need of Our Times Sometimes in life, we find ourselves at a moral crossroads. On the path of our development as...

In 1953, the same year that DNA was discovered, Mount Everest climbed and Queen Elizabeth crowned, a graduate student in Chicago passed an electrical...