Category: Physics, Earth & Space
How to Think About Minority Science Views — The Case of Plate Tectonics
The idea that continents drift is now taken for granted, but it wasn’t always.
Nature, as Defined Today, Cannot Be All There Is
Science is on the move. It is slowly morphing from observing nature to embodying naturalism.
Dan Brown Thriller Has MIT’s Jeremy England in It; Brian Miller Puts the Science in Perspective
I’m reading Brown’s new Robert Langdon novel, Origin. There’s a decent chance you are too.
When Science Turns Mushy
Certain subjects, all posing ultimate questions, reduce much of scientific talk to pablum. Why do you think that is?
The Search for Terrestrial Intelligence – An Exercise in Intelligent Design
Let’s turn the SETI telescope around. Would extraterrestrials be justified in inferring ID from patterns on the earth?