Category: Science
Listen: The Innovative Cellular Engineering That Keeps Us Alive
When left to their own devices, the laws of nature tend toward death, not life. So what does it take for life to exist?
Asking Questions Demonstrates Human Exceptionalism
This human trait of question-asking begins almost as soon as we learn to talk. Young children can confound their parents with their rapid-fire questions.
Understanding the Mind: A Neuroscientist and a Psychiatrist Walk into a…
What’s most interesting about this discussion is how well the life of the intellect, engaged by science, gets on without guidance from eliminative materialism.
Douglas Axe: We Have an Eye For Detecting Design
“Either you’re with us and on board on these issues or you are anti-science. That is a very unhelpful position for scientists to be taking.”
Self-Referential Absurdity in a Theory of Consciousness
Leonhard Euler was known to work out complex derivations in his head while blind. Of what possible use was this ability for survival?