Month: November 2013
An Uneven Classic: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
It’s worth recalling, if just a mite belatedly with respect to the 50th anniversary of his death, Huxley’s well-known work of science fiction.
Evolutionary Science Never Rests
We laugh at speculation about natural selection for smaller breasts, but most of us don’t understand equally ridiculous speculation about remingtonocetids, ambulocetids, and protocetids.
Our Privileged Planet, Streaming Live
It’s hard not to see this, in some karmic sense, as a rebuke to the ongoing buzz about how many "Earth-like" planets people think are out there.
Shooting the Messenger: Elizabeth Pennisi
As a science journalist, Ms. Pennisi has more than once stuck her finger in the eye of evolution’s ancient r�gime.
"Adaptation" in Hearing: "We Have No Idea How It Works"
While research giveth understanding, it sometimes also taketh it away — revealing that what we thought we know ain’t really so.