Year: 2024
Let’s Throw Mathematical Light on the Origin of Life
If researchers really were making progress, wouldn’t that mean they would be converging on the same truth? Yet they are not.
Brain Imaging Shows Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain
A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at once.
Physicist Eric Hedin on Entropy and the Origin of Life
Physics tells us pretty clearly that mindless nature degrades information; it doesn’t create it. Are there workarounds?
Letter from Paris: Notre-Dame Restored
If the cathedral had lost something of its causal connection to the past, it had reacquired its original colors and with those colors, its intended design.
Fossil Friday: Say Hello to Our Microscopic Granddaddy?
What we do know is that it is definitely not our earliest ancestor. Another overhyped missing link bites the dust.