Month: July 2012
Privileged Planet: Our Thin, Exquisitely Delicate Atmosphere
It takes a time-lapse moving picture like this (courtesy of NASA and editor Alex Rivest) to get a really clear sense of the film of gases that surrounds our planet.
“Who Lost Science?”
The most likely answer to the question as stated is the one that nobody in the Darwin camp is prepared to consider.
The Fragmented Field of Paleoanthropology
Paleoanthropologists face a number of daunting challenges in their quest to reconstruct a story of hominim evolution.
Dawkins on the Human Eye: Reality Check, Please?
“I think it was Helmholtz, the famous German psychologist, who said that if an engineer had given him the human eye, he’d have sent it back.”
A Strategy of “Willed Ignorance”
Lakoff and Wehling have simply made explicit in the political context what Chris Mooney notoriously did some years ago in the scientific-evolutionary one.