Tag: Howard Glicksman
“Pointless Bones”? Nathan Lents Bites at Stuart Burgess’s Ankle
From an engineering perspective, the bones of the ankle, in their complex and functional artistry, are very far from “pointless.”
Natural Selection: The Evolution of a Mirage
Natural selection reveals itself as not just a metaphor but a mixed one: Nature being dumb but nevertheless capable of discrimination.
Why High School Biology Made Me Angry (And Why I Like It So Much Better Now)
Your own body has something like 30 trillion cells in it. That’s 30 trillion large cities’ worth of complexity.
SETI: Inventing Minds to Find Minds
SETI has a new technique to recognize patterns in gobs of data: invent intelligences to search for extraterrestrial intelligence that might be artificial.
Dallas Conference: What Does “The Science” Really Say about Faith?
This year’s conference, February 17 and 18, will tackle subjects we haven’t explored before, including archaeology, transgenderism, and tech addiction.