Philosophy & Ethics
- What Is Life- Part 1
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Before embarking on this discussion it is important to try and resolve some language and definition issues that will likely occur in this post. One of the main difficulties in addressing this problem stems from the limitations of language. Language exists ...
Article - Gerhard Adam - Jul 29 2011 - 8:21pm
- A Tale of Two (Wrong) Theories
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Two theories that have been making the biological rounds have been group selection which argued for evolution and selection operating "for the good of the group" and the "selfish gene" which argued that everything (including cooperation ...
Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Aug 1 2011 - 12:08am
- Do You Own Your Brand? Contrarian Law Professor Says Not So Much
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Because it is substantially easier, in a globally connected Internet world, to leverage someone else's names, likenesses and trademarks, American courts have expanded the legal rights regarded their uses. University at Buffalo Law School professor Ma ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2011 - 7:44pm
- Scientists Need To Be Less Objective, Says Ecologist, And More Political
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If you look at the most politicized aspects of science, it is areas where scientists and science journalists became advocates and stopped being trusted guides for the public. Result: the collapse of science journalism and increased distrust of scientists i ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2011 - 3:46pm
- How I wish to be a believer...
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Recently, by looking the faith of many people, I thought I wish to have their conviction. I would like to experience the sense of the knowledge without evidence taking for sure what I´m telling to others, the reliability of a life after this, the calmness ...
Blog Post - Arturo Pèrez-Arteaga - Aug 15 2011 - 10:55pm
- The Earth as Healer: A Holistic Perspective
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Turn off all of your electronic devices and gaze out the window for a few minutes. Reflect on the changes taking place on the earth. What do you see? What do you experience? ...
Blog Post - Catrina Walker - Aug 15 2011 - 10:29pm
- Controversy- Minorities Less Likely To Get NIH Grants?
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What constitutes racism? If you have a pool of applicants for a research grant and a pplications with good scores were likely to be funded, regardless of race or ethnicity, can there be racism? A recent survey of NIH R01 applications found that applica ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 17 2011 - 10:16am
- Stephen Law's Intellectual Black Holes, Or How Not To Win Friends
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Warning: Snark Attack Ahead So you've been in the skeptic movement for a bit, dipped your toes in the waters, so to speak, and gone looking for the woonuts so as to have a blast pointing out their every fallacy and poorly thought out idea. Now what? Y ...
Article - Kim Wombles - Aug 22 2011 - 6:04am
- Wormholes Possible? Yes, And Using String Theory, I Am Also The Pope
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Science 2.0 fave Dan Vergano at USA Today wrote an article based on the arXiv preprint written by Panagiota Kanti, Burkhard Kleihaus and Jutta Kunz called " Wormholes in Dilatonic Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Theory". ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 23 2011 - 2:15pm
- Science, Faith, And Belief Systems
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Belief systems are the stories we tell ourselves to define our personal sense of "reality". Every human being has a belief system that they utilize, and it is through this mechanism that we individually, "make sense" of the world aroun ...
Article - Gerhard Adam - Sep 3 2011 - 1:36pm
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