Month: May 2016
No, Your Brain Isn’t a Three-Pound Meat Computer
AI machines are more a form of mimicry than anything even approaching intelligence.
As Eric Hedin Earns Tenure, It’s Time to Set the Record Straight — Again
As a Ball State University associate professor of astronomy and physics, Hedin taught an interdisciplinary honors course called Boundaries of Science.
What It Takes to Build a Nuclear Membrane
It sounds so easy, doesn’t it? Prokaryotes evolved into eukaryotes that segregated their DNA into a nucleus.
Local Fitness Landscape Mapped Out for Green Fluorescent Protein
The problem of protein evolution keeps getting worse.
No, a “Universal but Arbitrary Genetic Code” Doesn’t “Vindicate Darwin”
A reader sends along an article in the London Times by science journalist Matt Ridley.