Category: Evolution
Will This Proposal “Fix Science”?
There are many, many ways that science has stopped functioning. Certainly, one of them is that it incentivizes the wrong things.
Science After Babel: An Exercise in Self-Criticism
Until the day before yesterday, the imperial architects of the scientific revolution were well satisfied and sleek as seals.
New! Philosopher and Mathematician David Berlinski on “Science After Babel”
“Many will read this book for the close, elegant reasoning, the astonishing erudition, or the mordant analysis. I confess I read it for the prose.”
Engineering and Evolution in the Microbial World
This year’s Conference on Engineering in Living Systems (CELS) is going on right now, exploring design principles at work in living things.
The Phosphorus Cycle: Cause or Effect?
Phosphorus, oxygen, and microbes cooperate in a delicate balance that sustains our productive biosphere. How did they come to interact?