Blizzy Blair

Blizzy Blair

Blair Casey is an amateur hiker, perpetual note scribbler and news junkie. She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with her husband and two cats.

Stentrode | The “Bionic Spine” Implant

By Blair Casey Researchers in Australia have created a brain machine interface small enough to be implanted into the brain using a non-invasive procedure. The stentrode, designed in Melbourne … will be inserted into the blood vessel with a catheter fed…

VIDEO | The Legal Rights of A.I.

Ray Kurzweil Interviews Professor Alan Dershowitz, discussing the future of artificial intelligence, the merger of biological and artificial functions and the types of ethical questions associated with sentient machines.

Weird Review: The Name of the Wind

I know what you’re thinking… “Whaaat? A fantasy book?” Well people…weird covers a wide range of genres. (‘Nuff said.) So let’s get to business. First of all, you’ll notice I gave this book five stars, which means you should just…

Weird Review: The Martian (Book)

“The Martian” opens with magnetic force. Thrown into a catastrophic situation, the reader is immediately enveloped in this first-person account of an astronaut stranded on Mars. Admittedly, “The Martian” weaves a wildly entertaining premise. The main character, botanist and engineer Mark Watney,…

Weird Review: The Sparrow

I stumbled upon this book while reading an interview with female astronaut Mae Jemison with i09 magazine. io9: How does science fiction help us imagine the future? Mae Jemison: I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate…

Robot Roundup 2015

Across the world, A.I. is a growing field. Designed for space travel, digital memory upload, medical care and terrestrial exploration — the future of A.I. is developing before our eyes. Geminoid Series by Osaka Bina48 by LifeNaut General Overview Interview…

Rosalind | The Beginning of the End

I’m in a dream. The war drones are roaring overhead, their shadows cutting across the sunlit paths between the buildings. I am pressed against a wall, looking back at the panicked, stampeding crowd. We are all tethered to the same fear, a thread pulled…