Category: Science
Tour-Cronin Debate: Does Charisma Carry the Day?
Was Tour overly aggressive at the roundtable? Having watched and then re-watched the event, I don’t think that was at all the case.
Fossil Friday: Update on Cambrian Bryozoans
The authors emphasize that “the origin of the bryozoans remains a mystery” but explicitly confirm the reality of the Cambrian Explosion.
Anti-Hate Group, Canary Mission, Exposes “Science Educator” Professor Dave
The idea that Jews, alone among indigenous peoples, have no right to defend themselves on their land, is at once anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.
Another War of Words: Jim Tour and Lee Cronin at Harvard
Tour didn’t shout. He didn’t call anyone an “idiot.” He never called Cronin a “bad chemist.” And Tour’s scientific challenges were entirely reasonable.
Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature
Jonathan Witt describes four characteristics common in all works of human genius and provides examples, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Euclid’s geometry.