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• Twitter Links It's time for science to move on from materialism

  Today we live in the 21st century, and it seems that we are still stuck with this narrow and rigid view of the things.…

  January 28 2012, 11:35am | Comments

• Link Nature, nurture and liberal values

  Biology determines our behaviour more than it suits many to acknowledge. But people—and politics and morality—cannot be described just by neural impulses

  January 25 2012, 11:35am | Comments

• Twitter Links Why Does Our Universe Have Three Dimensions?

  Why does our universe look the way it does? In particular, why do we only experience three spatial dimensions in our universe, when superstring…

  January 23 2012, 8:35am | Comments

• Twitter Links Rereading Darwin

  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

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  January 15 2012, 4:49pm | Comments

• Link The Era of Networked Science

  The Internet may well have its downsides, but it also has the potential to make us collectively smarter, according to open-science advocate Michael Nielsen. In Reinventing Discovery: The New Era…

  January 13 2012, 3:41am | Comments

• Link The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith

  The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes…

  December 22 2011, 1:24pm | Comments

• Twitter Links What We Learned About Our Human Ancestors in 2011

  Genetic hints of extinct human lineages — and the benefits we might have received from having sex with them — were among the discoveries…

  December 20 2011, 6:53pm | Comments

• Link Trials and Errors: The limits of reductionism &…

  This mental approach to causality is often effective, which is why it’s so deeply embedded in the brain. However, those same shortcuts get us into serious trouble in the modern…

  December 20 2011, 5:31am | Comments

• Twitter Links How the internet transforms scientific discovery

  Internet users with no scientific training have helped discover a new type of galaxy and crack a problem in protein biochemistry that stumped experts,…

  December 18 2011, 3:05am | Comments

• Link Mouse Trap: The dangers of using one lab…

  "I began to realize that the ‘control’ animals used for research studies throughout the world are couch potatoes," he tells me. It's been shown that mice living under standard laboratory…

  December 13 2011, 1:34pm | Comments

• Twitter Links Out of Imagination Came a New Online World

  Neal Stephenson doesn’t like talking about how he predicted the future.

  December 7 2011, 6:06am | Comments

• Instapaper It Does Take a Village

  It is possible to see Hrdy’s most recent book, Mothers and Others, as the third in a trilogy that began with The Woman That…

  December 1 2011, 4:37am | Comments

• Link What happens to a caterpillar's brain during metamorphosis?

  Basically, three things can happen to any given neuron in the central nervous system. It's a really complex proccess! A) some neurons are born very early in the caterpillar's life…

  November 30 2011, 12:50pm | Comments

• Twitter Links Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication

  "A Dutch researcher has created a virus with the potential to kill half of the planet's population."

  November 29 2011, 7:53am | Comments

• Link Neanderthal Neuroscience

  As scientists began to build a database of human DNA in the 1990s, it became possible to test these ideas with genes. In his talk, Paabo described how he and…

  November 21 2011, 3:09am | Comments

• Link Does Pinker’s “Better Angels” Undermine Religious Morality?

  It is often argued that religion makes individuals and the world more just and moral, that it builds character and provides a foundation from which we understand right from wrong,…

  November 2 2011, 6:58am | Comments

• Twitter Links Threshold science

  How walking through a doorway increases forgetting

  November 2 2011, 6:51am | Comments

• Link Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing)

  I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as…

  October 31 2011, 6:53am | Comments

• Twitter Links Explaining the Neuroscience of the Zombie Epidemic

  Neuroscience has shown that all thoughts and behaviors are associated with neural activity within the brain. Therefore, it should not be surprising that the…

  October 23 2011, 3:08pm | Comments

• Link The Roots of Religion: Myth, Play and Human…

  Robert Bellah, one of America's most distinguished sociologists, caps off his luminous academic career with "Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age" , a near 800-page…

  October 19 2011, 3:17am | Comments

• Link The case for reconciling the scientific with the…

  As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of…

  October 8 2011, 10:01am | Comments

• Link On Science Transfer

  “Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before.…

  September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments

• Link How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical…

  The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful…

  September 21 2011, 4:23am | Comments

• Link Can religion tell us more than science?

  In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and…

  September 21 2011, 3:52am | Comments

• Link How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical…

  The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful…

  September 20 2011, 10:26am | Comments

• Link Can religion tell us more than science?

  In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and…

  September 20 2011, 3:12am | Comments

• Link Steven Pinker on the History and decline (and…

  Some of the evidence has been under our nose all along. Conventional history has long shown that, in many ways, we have been getting kinder and gentler. Cruelty as entertainment,…

  September 20 2011, 3:05am | Comments

• Twitter Links Next Step Infinity

  "Infinity can violate our human intuition, which is based on finite systems..."

  September 19 2011, 4:21am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal…

  “What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at…

  September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments

• Biblio The Logic of Life by Francois Jacob

  August 31 2011, 7:31am | Comments

• Link The New Atheism

  Trapped in the childhood literalism of my background, I had not entertained the possibility of Christian belief separated from the great lure and threat of heaven and hell. The New…

  August 30 2011, 8:21am | Comments

• Twitter Links Implications of 'uplifting'

  Is it Ethical to Make Animals as Smart as People?

  August 30 2011, 5:52am | Comments

• Twitter Links Theology is Dead

  "...there is, in accord with reason’s movement, no name to which another is not opposed”

  August 23 2011, 10:52am | Comments

• Twitter Links Shock: Adam and Eve NEVER existed! (If it wasn't for you pesky biochemists...) http://t.co/hjiA8lK #religion #faith…

  Shock: Adam and Eve NEVER existed! (If it wasn't for you pesky biochemists...) http://t.co/hjiA8lK #religion #faith #belief #science #x

  August 18 2011, 1:37am | Comments

• Tumblr The Science of Nothing; The Philosophy of Everything

  August 17 2011, 5:34am | Comments

• Link Ancient DNA reveals secrets of human history

  By comparing individual DNA letters in multiple modern human genomes with those in the Neanderthal genome, the date of that interbreeding has now been pinned down to 65,000–90,000 years ago.…

  August 15 2011, 2:45am | Comments

• Twitter Links Is Craig Venter going to save the planet? Or, is this more hype from one of…

  Is Craig Venter going to save the planet? (#hype #science #controversy) http://t.co/C5Bu358 #x

  August 15 2011, 2:23am | Comments

• Twitter Links How to write faster. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine

  Slowpoke: How to be a faster writer (or 'how to write faster') - http://t.co/MCpEcFZ #science #writing #x #slate

  August 12 2011, 9:11am | Comments

• Link Digital tendencies

  From 1961 to 1973, a loosely organized group of artists and scientists coalesced around the radical idea that the emerging technology of the computer could be used to make a…

  August 12 2011, 4:59am | Comments

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