Richard Leis

Horror Writer & Poet

Month: August 2007

  • Bizarre Star Discovered to Have Comet-Like Tail

    Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/C. Martin (Caltech)/M. Seibert(OCIW) – “Johnny Appleseed of the Cosmos“ The first star discovered with a comet-like tail was announced today by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) team. While exploring the sky in ultraviolet light, GALEX spotted a tail of material streaming behind the binary star Mira, or Omicron Ceti, located 450 light…

  • Ending Aging

    Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here.

  • 7th Alcor Conference

    Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. [Frontier Channel Coverage: Alcor Conference – Table of Contents]

  • Third “Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence” Conference (SENS3)

    Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. Please see Frontier Channel’s coverage of this event.

  • The Singularity Summit 2007

    Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. Please see Frontier Channel’s coverage of this event.

  • The AI Question

    “When will AI surpass human-level intelligence?” This not an uncommon question in the futurist sphere, and especially among transhumanists and singularitarians. Bruce Klein, President of Novamente, a company pursuing Artificial General Intelligence by way of virtual agents, asked this question on the company’s blog and invited people to respond. The question appears straight forward enough.…

  • Cybernudism and Frontier Channel Merged

    My blog that use to be “Leis on Life” and then “Cybernudism” has been imported into Frontier Channel. The old blog has been deleted and the cybernudism domain name parked. I kept these properties separate in a half-hearted attempt to keep news reporting and commentary separate. However, there was a lot of overlap and they…

  • Frontier Channel Overhaul

    Notice a difference?  I am currently overhauling the Frontier Channel site by moving the old static pages into WordPress and designing a new look.  This move to content management software should make the site much, much easier to maintain and allow me to finally provide the first new content since March 2006. The graphics that…