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Welcome to the Age of Denial
IN 1982, polls showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created human beings in their present form....
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US brain project puts focus on ethics
The false mouse memories made the ethicists uneasy. By stimulating certain neurons in the hippocampus, Susumu Tonegawa and his...
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Why Can’t My Computer Understand Me?
Hector Levesque thinks his computer is stupid—and that yours is, too. Siri and Google’s voice searches may be able...
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Steven Pinker embraces scientism. Bad move, I think
Steven Pinker has written a long essay in The New Republic embracing scientism. That's really too bad, because this...
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Science Is Not Your Enemy
The great thinkers of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment were scientists. Not only did many of them...
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Hunting Down the First Americans
James Adovasio stood on a platform on an overcast day last week, about forty feet up the side of...
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Warning Label: Big Pharma meets Big History
Why should Big Pharma invest in Big History? My answer is in the form of a warning label I...
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A Black Hole Mystery Wrapped in a Firewall Paradox
This time, they say, Einstein might really be wrong. A high-octane debate has broken out among the world’s physicists...
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The Real Meaning of the Exoplanet Revolution
Until quite recently we knew of only one life-harbouring planet in a single planetary system — adrift within a...
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The Nature Of Consciousness: A Question Without An Answer?
Today I’d like to go back to a topic that leaves most people perplexed, me included: the nature of...