Tag: health
Specified Complexity Is All Around Us
A key idea in the theory of ID is specification, or matching a pattern. Specified, complex information is a hallmark of intelligent activity.
Appreciate Your (Un-Evolved) Body
Things you probably didn’t even know about should arouse awe as we go about our tasks each day, and sleep each night.
Physicians Should Prescribe Pills, not Politics
The last thing sick people need while being admitted to a hospital is a nurse or clerk trying to get out the vote.
U.K. Museum Director Calls for Venerating Evolution as “Irrefutable”
The highest calling for a great museum like Dixon’s is not to be a refuge. It is to be a portal — a portal for scientific discovery.
A “Healthspan” Duty to Die for the Elderly?
University of Illinois professor S. Jay Olshansky argues that it is time to shift medicine’s focus — starting at age 65 — away from “life extension.”