Category: Culture & Ethics
Would His Theory’s Cultural Impact Dismay Darwin?
Darwin experiences the future and is shocked to learn about the impact his theory has had on areas outside of science.
Capturing Beauty, Painting Creation
Orcs were made from elves, not the other way around. And that is not my subject here. Beauty comes first.
How Political Ideology Has Undermined Scientific Credibility
Science goes badly off the track when it succumbs to ideological pressures — as it did with the eugenics movement.
Two Tales from the Euthanasia Dystopia
In Spain, a criminal who shot four people and was, in turn, shot in the spine by police and paralyzed, was granted death by euthanasia.
Big Science Is the Toxic Spoiled Brat of Academic Life
The scheme has a name, a blandly harmless-sounding one. It’s called “indirect costs.”