Tag: mathematics
Listen: Kirk Durston on Fantasy Science and Scientism
One example of fantasy science, according to Durston, is the multiverse.
Counterprogramming for Cosmos 3.0: Two New Videos from Science Historian Mike Keas
The series, as hosted originally by Carl Sagan and now by Neil deGrasse Tyson, has two notable priorities.
Remembering Freeman Dyson and the Enduring Lesson of “Dyson’s Hypothesis”
Dyson points out that the highly improbable is actually quite probable by invoking “Littlewood’s law of miracles.”
Freeman Dyson: The Passing of an Iconoclastic Physicist
Dyson was careful to take an open-minded approach: not fully endorsing design, yet not rejecting it either.
Michael Aeschliman in National Review — Berlinski Detonates “Fatuous, Flattering” Optimism
From climate change to the coronavirus, one tendency among writers and commentators is to an urgent, insatiable, almost sexual desire to cast unwarranted terror over other people.