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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Friday, January 04, 2008
National Academies: Science, Evolution and Creationism
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The National Academies (Science, Engineering, Medicine) (USA) have just published their latest book on the evolution/creationism controversy...
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Thursday, January 03, 2008
Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing
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A growing number of for-profit companies are selling genetic testing services directly to customers who pay anywhere from $100 t0 $1000 fo...
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Why biology is harder than physics
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Rosie Redfield says [ Why biology is harder than physics ]. Beginning university students in the sciences usually consider biology to be m...
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Changing Your Mind: Are Science and Religion Compatible?
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Clay Shirky used to think that science and religion were compatible. That doesn't mean all religious beliefs, of course, because some ...
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Changing Your Mind: Are Scientific Theories Falsifiable?
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Rebecca Goldstein is a philosopher at Havard University (USA). She used to think that Karl Popper's view of how science is done was co...
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Changing Your Mind: Are Humans Evolving?
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Steven Pinker, a psychologist at Harvard University (USA) used to think that humans had stopped evolving. Now he's changed his mind ... ...
Changing Your Mind: Alan Alda Converts from Atheism to Agnosticism
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Alan Alda has changed his mind. He used to be an atheist but now he prefers to call himself an agnostic [ So far, I've changed my min...
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Changing Your Mind: The Limits Of Darwinian Reasoning
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Marc D. Hauser is a biologist and psychologist at Harvard University (USA). He is beginning to see the error of his adaptationist ways [ T...
Changing Your Mind: The Obligations and Responsibilities of The Scientist
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Leon Lederman is a physicist and a Nobel Laureate. He has changed his mind about the The Obligations and Responsibilities of The Scientist...
Changing Your Mind: Maybe Human Races Do Exist After All
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Mark Pagel is an evolutionary biologist who used to buy into the idea that human races did not exist [ We Differ More Than We Thought ]. ...
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Changing Your Mind: The Fallacy of Hypothesis Testing
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The Edge has asked people to describe whether they have changed their mind about anything and if so, why? It's the Annual Question fo...
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Open Lab 2007
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Open Lab 2007 is about to be published. The book contains the best articles from science blogs in 2007. There were 486 articles nominated ...
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Oops! The Rapture Didn't Happen
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There was supposed to be a rapture last month but the prediction didn't come true. Either that or it did come true and only a small nu...
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Iowa Caucuses
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In a few days about 100,000 people will get together in Iowa to elect the next President of the United States. At least I think that's...
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You Think *You* Have a Tough Job? ....
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[Hat Tip: Canadian Cynic ]
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