Author: Rob Sheldon
Learning Wonder from Denton’s Latest
Around 50 BC Titus Lucretius Carus wrote a long treatise against finding purpose in nature.
An Astronomer Considers the Origin of Life, with Sobering Results
In my opinion, only one tooth fairy is allowed per theory, and this one has at least four, making its irrelevance nearly guaranteed.
Academic Freedom — Sweeping Up the Shards
Here is an article, “The New Evolution Deniers,” by evolutionary biologist Colin Wright at Penn State.
A Fourth Layer of Epicycles on the Standard Cosmology
As you may recall, the Big Bang expelled all the matter in the universe with a certain amount of violence or explosive velocity.
The Missing Factor in Paul Ehrlich’s Calculation of a "Sixth Great Mass Extinction"
Fossil extinction rates are smoothed over tens of millennia, whereas today’s extinction rates are spiky.