Tag: News
The Economist Admits “Human Intelligence Is a Biological Mystery”
I am not so much interested in why and how human beings became exceptional, just in defending the fact that we are.
Nile Crocodiles Turn Up in Florida; Did They Raft?
Animals rarely resort to cross-ocean seafaring except under the combined pressure of biogeography and neo-Darwinian theory.
From Douglas Axe, a Sobering Take on the Limits of Genome Technology
Fueled by news of a closely guarded meeting at Harvard Medical School, the media abuzz are about the prospect of synthesizing a human genome.
Leaving Evolution Skeptics Out of a Discussion of Suppressing Scientific Dissent
Political conservatives and their publications are currently engulfed by a civil war, so it’s understandable if National Review‘s Jonah Goldberg is distracted.
As Eric Hedin Earns Tenure, It’s Time to Set the Record Straight — Again
As a Ball State University associate professor of astronomy and physics, Hedin taught an interdisciplinary honors course called Boundaries of Science.