Our very first guest—and one of our favorites—James Hughes returns to keep it 100.

James Hughes, Executive Director of the IEET, and the first guest we ever had, is back. He’s the best. Prepare for a transhumanist delight.

Notes

• What’s that you say? Nicotine is a cognitive enhancer? Our buddy Jesse Lawler has the scoop over at Smart Drug Smarts.
• “Oxytocin Could Make You Racist” (via Time)
• “Overcome By Emotion,” the tale of a man who became “entirely rational” (via Radiolab)
• Read more on The Capability Approach over at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Of course I know what soma is! Oh, who am I kidding? I’ve never read Brave New World. I’ve never even read David Pearce’s defense of Brave New World.
• I believe the essay by JBS Haldane that influenced the Huxley bros so was none other than “Daedalus, or, Science and the Future.”
• Peter Diamandis says we’re about to become a superorganism. And Zach says Kevin Kelly already called this, as well as coined the term: Holos.
• Yuval Harari argues—in Sapiens and elsewhere—that money is a story. Ditto that for religions, nations, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
• Here’s more on the history of basic income, including the input of André Gorz, courtesy of the Basic Income Earth Network.
• If you’re in Chicago this summer, go say hi to James at the 2017 DSA Convention.
• Wanna know what education will look like in the future? Neal Stephenson got you: The Diamond Age.
• For more on homeschooling, give our chat with Jeff Till a listen.
• “An Iceberg the Size of Delaware Just Broke Away From Antarctica” (via The New York Times)

Media Mentions

James

• New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

Tom

• Radical Technologies by Adam Greenfield
• Castlevania

Scott

• bill wurtz

Zach

• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow. Also available for free here.
• goat yoga