Tag: mathematics
A Professor Learns the Price of Speaking Her Mind
Amy Wax describes her experiences after co-authoring a controversial newspaper op-ed.
Adam and the Genome and Doug Axe’s Research on the Evolution of New Protein Folds
Douglas Axe is a protein scientist who has published work on the rarity of new protein folds by doing research on beta-lactamase enzymes.
Why Certainty Doesn’t Always Require Accuracy — A $5 Lesson in Probability
As our dialogue continues, I think I’m starting to understand your position more clearly.
The Second Law Argument: A Timeline
“Remove the sun,” wrote Isaac Asimov, “and the human brain would not have developed.”
Naturalism and Self-Refutation
How much does Gödel’s incompleteness theorem weigh? What is the physics of non-contradiction? How many millimeters long is Tom Clark’s argument for naturalism?