Category: Science
How Euthanasia Activists Laid the Groundwork for Overturning Roe
Back in the ’90s, the assisted-suicide movement tried to convince the Supreme Court to impose a Roe–style decision for their cause.
In the Footsteps of Social Darwinist Cesare Lombroso
Lombroso’s ideas were quack science. But they were taken seriously by criminologists and public officials around the world until they were debunked.
Fossil Friday: New Kind of Silverfish Trapped in Sticky Resin
These incongruent or homoplastic characters are a notorious problem for phylogenetics and contradict the evolutionary prediction of a nested hierarchy.
Rosenhouse and Discrete Hypercube Evolution
Why have I just gone through this exercise with the 100-dimensional discrete hypercube, giving it the full track 2 monty? Two reasons.
No Pony in the Manure, No Consciousness in the Code
These AI champions are appealing to the Software of the Gaps, a secular cousin of the God of the Gaps.