Science & Society

It's Friday and time for a coffee break. Looking for more Darwin reading? (If you're already sick of the Darwin Bicentennial, you're in for a loooong year.) Michael Shermer takes on common misunderstandings of evolution in Scientific America ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 30 2009 - 2:11pm

Great Thinkers Who Met Tragicomically Gruesome Ends

Tycho Brahe was a sixteenth-century Danish, astronomer, astrologer and alchemist, most famous as the mentor of Johannes Kepler. In 1566 after a rousing night of drinking, Tycho lost a good part of his nose in a duel. Tycho was also the patron of whom ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Jan 31 2009 - 4:15pm

Kelley Winters, Gender Madness in American Psychiatry: A disappointing read.

I had high hopes for "Gender Madness in American Psychiatry: Essays from the Struggle for Dignity", Kelley Winters. (ISBN-10: 1-4392-2388-2, ISBN-13: 9781439223888) I write for Wikipedia on the issues related to Blanchard's theory. I was l ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Feb 4 2009 - 11:20pm

Addressing The Growing Creationism Problem In Europe

Creationism, the rejection of the scientific basis of evolutionary theory, is experiencing a resurgence among Europeans. The Department of Biology and Didactics of Biology at the TU Dortmund has organized an international conference addressing the issue, ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 31 2009 - 10:26pm

30 Days Of Evolution Blogging: What Tiktaalik Roseae Means To You And Me

In 2004 a University of Chicago researcher discovered something every evolutionary biologist knew had to exist- a missing link between land animals and fishes. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 3 2009 - 1:42am

Forget Darwin?

This morning I woke up to read this in the Daily Telegraph: Can we please forget about Charles Darwin? As we celebrate Charles Darwin's anniversary, a leading geneticist argues that our understanding of evolution would be much improved if we removed D ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Feb 2 2009 - 7:25am

Cool Thought Experiments I: Maxwell's Demon

Throughout history, scientists, philosophers, mathematicians and Phd students lacking funding for actual research have turned to the thought experiment in hopes of discovering something publishable, thereby retaining tenure and/or attracting the admiration ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Feb 2 2009 - 3:38pm

Cool Thought Experiments III: Schrodinger's Cat

Article - Garth Sundem - Feb 4 2009 - 11:09am

Cool Thought Experiments IV: The Chinese Room

Throughout history, scientists, philosophers, mathematicians and PhD students lacking funding for actual research have turned to the thought experiment in hopes of discovering something publishable, thereby retaining tenure and/or attracting the admiration ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Feb 5 2009 - 11:03am

Sorry Cupid: The Behavioral Economics Of The Human Mating System

What do men want? Biology’s simple answer is that men want to survive to pass on their genes. But when you throw this goal into a complex society of competing men, discerning women and morality, biology gets confused. For better or for worse, behavioral ec ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Feb 11 2009 - 10:00pm