Category: Science
Gilder on Privileged Species, a "Masterpiece" that "Expounds What Is the Most Important Discovery of 20th-Century Science"
Whoa, film and book reviews don’t come any more enviable than this.
Virginia’s Questions for Atheist Santa
In a mall in Madison, Wisconsin, five-year-old Virginia hops up on the lap of Atheist Santa, the jolly old elf from the reality-based community.
In Nature, Two Cosmologists Chide Other Cosmologists for Lack of Testable Evidence
On the multiverse, string theory, and more, two reputable astronomers take their colleagues to task for engaging in fact-free speculation.
Paper Suggests Catch 22: Neo-Darwinism Faces Either a Massive Molecular Clock Misfire, or a Major Biogeographical Conundrum
Molecular clocks are notoriously unreliable indicators of a lineage’s evolutionary age.
Steven Novella Doesn’t Trust His Computer One Bit
A Yale clinical neurologist drinks the Artificial Intelligence Kool-Aid.