Tag: Carl Sagan
Existential Implications of the Miller-Urey Experiment
Words, even meaningless words, have the power to create their own virtual realities in our minds.
Imagining “Abiogenesis”: Crick, Watson, and Franklin
There are some biologists, such as Richard Dawkins, who still pin their faith in ideas which have resulted only in blankly negative experimental results.
Unexplained — Maybe Unexplainable — Numbers Control the Universe
Richard Feynman called 1/137, the fine structure constant, “a magic number that comes to us with no understanding by man.”
Yes, the Human Brain Is the Most Complex Thing in the Universe
Our brains have actually shrunk by 10 percent over the last 40,000 years, coinciding with spectacular intellectual achievements.
Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step
The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel.