Tag: Princeton University
Galápagos Finches — An “Exceptionally Strong Natural-Selection Event”?
This is by no means an all-or-nothing selection (as the impression is sometimes given). Rather, the alleles are retained.
John Lennox: A Favorite Debate with the Atheists?
“They were all different and and all interesting in different ways,” says Professor Lennox. “I learned so much from them.”
Harvard Law Professor — Ban Homeschooling for “Question[ing] Science”
Ban it for other things as well, says Professor Elizabeth Bartholet in a stunning article for Harvard Magazine.
“Fearless”: Princeton Mathematician Sergiu Klainerman on Berlinski’s Human Nature
“The man is fearless in pursuing lines of reasoning that are considered taboo by current standards.”
Human Nature — New Book from David Berlinski Skewers Illusion of Evolutionary Progress in History
Berlinski schools Steven Pinker, the famed Harvard cognitive psychologist, on the relevant math, reminding him that “poorly defined problems very often lead to absurd solutions.”