1. Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions

Comment #163085 by PeterRobertson on April 18, 2008 at 1:19 am

You could imagine a genetic variant that would increase a woman's fertility by more than (say) 10% and have the side effect that 10% of her descendants would be homosexual.

Whether or not the homosexuals produced offspring, the variant would confer a net advantage and so could be propagated by the increased number of reproducing offspring.

2. Machines 'to match man by 2029'

Comment #128546 by PeterRobertson on February 17, 2008 at 11:01 am

"We'll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains through the capillaries and interact directly with our biological neurons,"

Highly unlikely, I think. How would they locate the neurons with which they should interact? Why is there any reason to suppose that the neurons in my brain that are involved with a particular thought process are in any way related to those in anybody else's brain? The brain isn't wired like a computer; it grows. While there will be similarities between them at a gross level, each one is unique.
It's exactly the same reason why telepathy has a vanishingly-small chance of existing.

3. Space tourist makes safe return

Comment #33843 by PeterRobertson on April 22, 2007 at 6:04 am

Hungarian notation! It's a pity there isn't a hell for him to burn in forever :-)