Month: December 2014
Court Declares Orangutan "Non-Human Person"!
Indifference is the enemy of maintaining a righteous society and there is nothing funny about erasing human exceptionalism.
Paper Suggests Catch 22: Neo-Darwinism Faces Either a Massive Molecular Clock Misfire, or a Major Biogeographical Conundrum
Molecular clocks are notoriously unreliable indicators of a lineage’s evolutionary age.
Steven Novella Doesn’t Trust His Computer One Bit
A Yale clinical neurologist drinks the Artificial Intelligence Kool-Aid.
How Sex Is Like Fireworks
When sperm meets egg, something wonderful happens: "It is beautiful to see, orchestrated much like a symphony."
Leading Evolutionary Scientists Admit We Have No Evolutionary Explanation of Human Language
It’s difficult to imagine much stronger words from a more prestigious collection of experts.