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The Dangers of Extrapolation (“Much light will be thrown on the origin of man.” Two centuries before Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of…

January 17 2012, 6:06pm | Comments
Link Innovation Starvation
SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer)…

October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments
Link Darwin Among the Machines (Samuel Butler, 1863)
The views of machinery which we are thus feebly indicating will suggest the solution of one of the greatest and most mysterious questions of the day. We refer to the…

March 3 2011, 8:55am | Comments
Link Unnatural: the Heretical Idea of Making People
We human beings persist in thinking of ourselves as a unique species, endowed with special insight into a universe that we can manipulate. In fact, this notion is based on…

February 21 2011, 2:23am | Comments
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September 26 2010, 4:34am | Comments
Link On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of…
We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin's theory of evolution, as fixed notions that are accepted as finished. In fact, Darwin's On the Origin of Species evolved over…

October 12 2009, 9:56am | Comments
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October 2 2009, 7:27am | Comments
Link Must science declare a holy war on religion?
This fall, evolutionary biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins -- most recently famous for his public exhortation to atheism, "The God Delusion" -- returns to writing about science. Dawkins' new…

September 17 2009, 2:32am | Comments
Link How to fake science, history and religion
One of the epigraphs that punctuate Invented Knowledge is from Pascal: "It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of…

August 6 2009, 1:20pm | Comments
Link The extent of Darwin’s impact on 19th-century artists
It’s hard to exaggerate just how widely Darwin’s ideas on natural selection and the evolution of human kind traveled in the cultural milieu of his day, even in the age…

June 11 2009, 2:49am | Comments
Link 'On the Origin of Stories,' 'Finding Our Tongues,'…
A few years ago Tufts philosopher Daniel Dennett opined that the idea of natural selection - proposed 150 years ago in Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" - was…

June 3 2009, 12:01pm | Comments

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