Author: Denyse O'Leary
Carl Sagan Aside, Earth Is Significant
Does the view from a vast distance have any relationship to the significance of a human cultural achievement?
Slow-Witted? Neanderthals Invented Their Own Tech — Didn’t Copy
Neanderthals cannot be the missing link that many paleontologists are looking for. But if the human mind has no history, there is no missing link.
Study Probes the Origins of Consciousness
Understanding consciousness by these means is going to be a much slower process than the researchers had hoped.
Here Is a New Interpretation for That Alive-and-Dead Quantum Cat
Schrödinger’s cat has got to be the most famous cat in science. He’s really a thought experiment.
Scopes “Monkey” Trial Is Turning One Hundred
Almost nothing happened quite the way the stereotypes have portrayed it since then.