Add Quakes to Rumblings Over Gas Rush
Need to study induced seismicity in response to the string of suspicious quakes in shale-gas drilling areas.
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The Magnificence of Spider Silk
Spider silk is one of the most high-performance materials. Each species of spider can make up to 7 very different kinds of silk. How do they do it?
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Global Warming, Climate Change and Sustainability
The International Society for Science & Religion recently posted a long essay by Sir John Houghton on “Global Warming, Climate Change and Sustainability: A Challenge to Scientists, Policymakers and Religious Believers”
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Cartography of the Anthropocene
A map of the human epoch.
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Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard)
Studies have found that roughly 40 percent of students planning engineering and science majors end up switching to other subjects or failing to get any degree. That is twice the combined attrition rate of all other majors.
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The Universe at a Glance
This artwork was created by Tom Rockwell under a commission of the Metanexus Institute. The goal was to represent the universe at all scales throughout time.
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Theology and Evolution: How Much Can Biology Explain?
A keynote lecture by John Haught at the 2006 “Beyond Intelligent Design” symposium. The lecture is followed by a panel response including Ian Barbour, George Ellis, and Nancey Murphy, moderated by William Grassie. Evolutionary biology contributes much to our present understanding of life, and its promises also to deepen our understanding of human intelligence, ethics and…
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Debate Big Questions
Today, we face Big Questions about meaning and purpose, virtues and values, and how to shape our common future, as we continue to strive to understand our origins and place in the universe.
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Denisovan DNA in the Islands, and an Australian Genome
Many human geneticists have argued our present pattern of diversity originated in a wave of successive founder effects coming from a single recent African origin. They were wrong. Instead, we can turn to a complex model with successive dispersals and episodes of population mixture. This is not a static model of isolation-by-distance; it is a…
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The Most Remarkable Things I Know
A talk by Bill Bryson at Gresham College on themes from A Short History of Nearly Everything.
