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Web War Erupts Over What Children Should Be Taught
A Christian geneticist has posted an online rebuttal to Bill Nye the Science Guy, who says in a web video that America is being held back by parents who teach their children to disbelieve in evolution. On the Big Think website, Nye says adults can deny evolution, but he pleads, “Don’t make your kids do…
Did Lucy Walk, Climb, or Both?
Much has been made of our ancestors “coming down out of the trees,” and many researchers view terrestrial bipedalism as the hallmark of “humanness.” After all, most of our living primate relatives—the great apes, specifically—still spend their time in the trees. Humans are the only member of the family devoted to the ground, living terrestrial…
The Latest Effort to Smear Evolution By Natural Selection
As a biographical sketch, Darwin: Portrait of a Genius is brisk and sufficient. But as an exploration of Darwin’s theory and its effect on the world, the book feels like Paul Johnson’s weird, bitter vendetta against a scientist who was always more interested in mollusks than men. Johnson attributes to Darwin a startling majority of…
Obama and Romney on Climate Change Science
With the race to the White House heating up, it raises the question: where do the presidential candidates stand on global warming? In short, Obama is a global warming “believer” but has provided little substance to back his conviction and seldom talks about it. Romney, on the other hand, presents a wavering, sometimes mocking assessment…
Technology Close to Cracking Oldest Undeciphered Writing System
Scientists from the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton have created a technique called reflectance transformation imaging that may help crack an ancient undeciphered writing system. The aim is to decipher manuscripts written in the so-called proto-Elamite writing system used in ancient Iran from 3,200 to 3,000 B.C. British researchers say new technology…
H+: Bringing Arts/Sciences and Design Into the Discussion of Transhumanism
ByEditorThe central issue now is the actuality of altering the human form is practicable, duplicating the mind is probable, and extending life is feasible.