Month: February 2016
Sexual Harassment in Academic Science Offers an Unexpected Lesson About Censorship on Evolution
Some thoughts as we approach tomorrow’s nomination deadline for Censor of the Year.
The Push Begins to Violate Religious Objections to Assisted Suicide
Forcing a Catholic hospital (say) to employ or give staffing privileges to death doctors would violate the free exercise of religion.
You Can’t Ascribe Intelligence to an Unguided Process
There’s a new movement afoot among some evolutionary biologists to co-opt the term “intelligent design.”
Listen: Information Theory for Non-Nerds
The subject can be abstruse. In an amusing and enlightening conversation, Robert Marks and Winston Ewert explain it all for you.
Selfish Gene Turns Forty, in Time for Dawkins Crackup
It’s like a strange dream, not exactly good or bad, but mostly just…weird.