Category: Science
Socrates in the City: James Tour on Nanotech
Tour explains some of the inventions coming out of his Rice University lab, including molecular cars and astonishing graphene technologies.
Darwin’s Category Errors and Their Consequences
Charles Darwin indiscriminately lumped together the organic and inorganic spheres — a grand category error.
Four Reasons the Multiverse Fails as Science
The multiverse theory has been embraced as a defense against what Stephen Meyer calls the God Hypothesis.
End of the Road for Radical Individual “Re-Creationism”? Not So Fast
Transableism is a relatively new term for what is known as BIID, for “body integrity identity disorder.”
New Engineering Ideas from Biology
The 2023 Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, organized by the CSC’s Engineering Research Group, is set for June 1-3 in Denton, Texas.