Tag: Yale University
David Gelernter: “You Need To Know Who You Are To Begin With”
Knowing who you are, where you came from, is a central purpose of education, and frankly not only in the humanities but in biology.
Punctuated Equilibria Is Back, but Still Magical
Calling it by a new name doesn’t change the essence of a theory relying on chance.
The Pursuit of Veritas
As the new school year begins, a group of Ivy League educators (among them, Robert P. George) urge college students to “think for yourself.”
Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic? Controversy Over the P-value Value
There is much to agree with in Yale University clinical neurologist Steven Novella’s recent article on the p-value.
Latest Homo naledi Bones Are Younger than Expected
In 1982, paleontologists Niles Eldredge and Ian Tattersall noted that it is a “myth that the evolutionary histories of living beings are essentially a matter of discovery.”