Tag: butterfly wings
Here’s How to Tell if Scientists Are Exaggerating
Here’s the simple test to tell if scientists are exaggerating wildly. Let’s call it: “The Principle of Comparative Difficulty.”
From Conception to Birth: The Math and the Marvel
Mathematician and medical image maker Alexander Tsiaras offers a stunning visualization.
Better Electronics with Butterfly Technology
The new design mimics two advantages of butterfly wings: optical enhancement and water resistance.
Divining Darwin in Butterfly Genes
A team of scientists carefully examined genomes of a butterfly and a silkworm. What they found was interesting, but dubious as an example of evolutionary ancestry.
Berlinski on Swedish Nudism and the Inordinate Sponginess of Scientific “Naturalism”
“Mathematics is a paradigmatic case of a science that has nothing to do with natural anything.”