Month: April 2014
Flailing Blindly: The Pseudoscience of Josh Rosenau and Carl Zimmer
I did not watch the sixth episode of Cosmos on April 13, but I’m told that it included animations to illustrate the molecular workings of a chloroplast.
"In China We Can Criticize Darwin": The 1999 China Conference
In June 1999, Paul Nelson and I flew to Kunming in southern China to attend an International Symposium on The Origins of Animal Body Plans and Their Fossil Record.
Cosmos Episode 6: Science as the New Sacred, and Failed Darwinian Predictions About Insects and Flowers
If that doesn’t make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, I suppose I don’t know what will.
"In China We Can Criticize Darwin": Prelude
In February 1999, I had arranged for a talk at the University of Washington for Jun-Yuan Chen, a Chinese paleontologist who was an acknowledged expert on the Cambrian explosion.
A Solution to the Problem of Humans: Swiss Assisted Suicide to Save the Planet!
Assisted suicide is not about terminal illness.