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Monarch Butterflies: A Natural Wonder in Crisis
Unfortunately, these delicate marathoners stand in jeopardy as their habitat shrinks because of human pressure.
How to Become a Whale
Certain Darwinian explanations remind me of a favorite Monthy Python skit.
New Scientist Weighs in on the Origin of Life
Michael Marshall attempts to revive the fashionable (but scientifically bankrupt) scenario of an RNA world. Comments encouraged!
“Under the Banyan Tree Nothing Grows”
Big Science devours billions of dollars a year while the productions of this vast government industry seem startlingly and increasingly barren of significance.
“Nonsense Remains Nonsense”: Oxford’s John Lennox to Confront Hawking’s Atheism in Seattle This Friday
What you really need to evaluate the strength of Hawkings’s argument is either a head for math or, better still, an actual mathematician.