Tag: history
Michael Keas: Improving Science Education by Understanding Science’s History
A science historian advises teachers that “science is best taught as science is best practiced.”
An “Impersonal Universe” and Its Consequences
Physicist Frank Tipler, as I noted earlier today, provocatively personalizes the Singularity, the beginning point or moment from which the universe burst forth.
The Masks of Prague
They have taken on the masks of their former taskmasters and let their heritage stand empty, though thankfully not yet in ruins.
John Derbyshire: A Useful Darwinian Racist
I didn’t intend to “savage” Derbyshire. I wanted to encourage him in his writing.
Farewell to John Lukacs: A Great Historian, and an Unequivocal Darwin Doubter
Unlike many of his academic colleagues, Lukacs did not stand in awe and wonder of Charles Darwin.