Okay, so I admit, I'm too lazy to read the article, (link to Scientific American dot-com), but here's the headline: The Law of Large Numbers guarantees that one-in-a-million miracles happen 295 times a day in America.

The article also talks about a book called Debunked! and makes me think about the work my girlfriend's brother does, which is chair the "Center for Inquiry" in New York City, a secular-humanist think-tank of sorts. I think they also have their own magazine, or group of them. While you're there, disregard the antiquated web-design and focus on the words, dudes.

I got to have a pretty good talk with Fay's brother Austin about cyborgs and transhumans when I visited the office last spring. (the office in the Rockefeller center is pretty cool, by the way) Here's an article he wrote pertaining to some of that, The New Perfectionism.

A small passage:
What would it mean to become posthuman? That depends on what “being human” amounts to. There is what might be called a moral sense of humanity defined by conventional values, somewhat of the kind Captain Kirk tried repeatedly to explain to Mr. Spock on the original Star Trek...[snip snip editing]

It is bad philosophy to identify the human essence with the human genome in its present state. To do so is to buy into the antiquated notion that a creature’s nature is immutable or unchanging. This intellectual vestige of the eternal, Platonic “species essence” was undermined by Darwinian biology and its insistence on the primacy of change and mutation.

Oh, yeah, the punchline to the headline joke....I almost forgot.