Tag: Steve Laufmann
“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.”
Let’s Sing the Body Electric
The emerging science of “bioelectricity” is opening new vistas into the electrical energy powering our nerves, organs, and tissues.
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.
Scientists Discover a “New” Fourth (Meningeal) Membrane Surrounding the Brain
When it comes to causation, there are only two classes of causal forces; those are material causes and intelligent causes.
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.