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  Free Will and “Free Will” : How my view differs from Daniel Dennett's : Sam Harris

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• Bookmark Q&A;: The Anthropology of Searching for Aliens

  Before we can understand an alien civilization, it might be useful to understand our own. To help in this task, anthropologist Kathryn Denning of York University in Toronto, Canada studies the…

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  Should we clone Neanderthals?

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  Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

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  The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Everywhere we look, it appears that the world…

  April 2 2012, 2:38pm | Comments

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  Written jointly by philosopher of religion Charles Taliaferro and visual artist Jil Evans, The Image in Mind takes up a suggestion of Suzanne Langer that religious thought operates primarily with images…

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• Bookmark What is the biological equivalent of discovering the Higgs Boson?

  We put the question to experts in various fields. Biology is no stranger to large, international collaborations with lofty goals, they pointed out — the race to sequence the human genome…

  March 29 2012, 8:44am | Comments

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  Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions

  March 27 2012, 2:06pm | Comments

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  Does It Matter Whether God Exists?

  March 23 2012, 1:51am | Comments

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  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Culturomics: Have physicists discovered the evolutionary laws of language in Google's library?

  Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing…

  March 20 2012, 11:04am | Comments

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  Borges: The Task of Art

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

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  God and the New Physics by Paul Davies

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

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  March 18 2012, 5:17pm | Comments

• Findings Mat of microbes the size of Greece discovered on seafloor

  Gargantuan whales and hefty cephalopods are typically thought of as the classic marine mammoths, but they might have to make way for the mighty microbes, which constitute 50 to 90 percent of the oceans’ total biomass, according to newly released data. These tiny creatures…

  March 16 2012, 8:02am | Comments

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  Anatomy of Norbiton: labyrinthine

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  When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

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  elsewhere in the solar system life of a very different kind was seeking, in its own strange manner, ends incomprehensible to mankind

  February 26 2012, 2:42pm | Comments

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  An Arthropod Version of Morlocks?

  February 22 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

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  “The Shannon and Weaver Model”

  February 20 2012, 6:51am | Comments

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  Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

  February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments

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  No secularism please, we're British

  February 15 2012, 3:20am | Comments

• Bookmark We live in a "more-than-human" universe

  The new political ecology is thus emerging from a call for greater humility toward the world and all the life forms it may hold, both literally and figuratively. Rather than contrasting…

  February 13 2012, 2:09am | Comments

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  Freud: The last great Enlightenment thinker

  January 22 2012, 11:07am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark What happens to a caterpillar's brain during metamorphosis?

  Basically, three things can happen to any given neuron in the central nervous system. It's a really complex proccess! A) some neurons are born very early in the caterpillar's life (embryonically)…

  November 30 2011, 11:50am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Any attempt to decipher nature and reveal its order requires certainty that the grid will not change..."

  “Any attempt to decipher nature and reveal its order requires certainty that the grid will not change in the course of the operation. There must be an assurance of regularity in the phenomena of nature… Otherwise there is no science. … [I]f a man…

  November 9 2011, 2:01am | Comments

• Tumblr I knew that sequence in The Tree of Life was missing something

  November 2 2011, 7:23am | Comments

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  On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'

  October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments

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  Free Will and “Free Will” : How my view differs from Daniel Dennett's : Sam Harris

  April 7 2012, 4:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark Q&A;: The Anthropology of Searching for Aliens

  Before we can understand an alien civilization, it might be useful to understand our own. To help in this task, anthropologist Kathryn Denning of York University in Toronto, Canada studies the…

  April 6 2012, 2:07am | Comments

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  Should we clone Neanderthals?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

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  Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark A universe without purpose

  The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Everywhere we look, it appears that the world…

  April 2 2012, 2:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Image in Mind: Theism, Naturalism, and the Imagination

  Written jointly by philosopher of religion Charles Taliaferro and visual artist Jil Evans, The Image in Mind takes up a suggestion of Suzanne Langer that religious thought operates primarily with images…

  April 2 2012, 2:34pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 1 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark What is the biological equivalent of discovering the Higgs Boson?

  We put the question to experts in various fields. Biology is no stranger to large, international collaborations with lofty goals, they pointed out — the race to sequence the human genome…

  March 29 2012, 8:44am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Bacteria Use ‘Chemical Twitter’ and ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ to Make Decisions

  March 27 2012, 2:06pm | Comments

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  Does It Matter Whether God Exists?

  March 23 2012, 1:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

  March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Culturomics: Have physicists discovered the evolutionary laws of language in Google's library?

  Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing…

  March 20 2012, 11:04am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Borges: The Task of Art

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

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  God and the New Physics by Paul Davies

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Tumblr “God,” Eldritch said, “promises eternal life....

  March 18 2012, 5:17pm | Comments

• Findings Mat of microbes the size of Greece discovered on seafloor

  Gargantuan whales and hefty cephalopods are typically thought of as the classic marine mammoths, but they might have to make way for the mighty microbes, which constitute 50 to 90 percent of the oceans’ total biomass, according to newly released data. These tiny creatures…

  March 16 2012, 8:02am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Anatomy of Norbiton: labyrinthine

  March 11 2012, 4:12am | Comments

• Bookmark The Exegete

  When Philip K. Dick died in 1982 of a series of strokes brought on by years of overwork and amphetamine abuse, he was seen within the science fiction genre as a…

  March 4 2012, 5:22am | Comments

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  elsewhere in the solar system life of a very different kind was seeking, in its own strange manner, ends incomprehensible to mankind

  February 26 2012, 2:42pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  An Arthropod Version of Morlocks?

  February 22 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  “The Shannon and Weaver Model”

  February 20 2012, 6:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

  February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  No secularism please, we're British

  February 15 2012, 3:20am | Comments

• Bookmark We live in a "more-than-human" universe

  The new political ecology is thus emerging from a call for greater humility toward the world and all the life forms it may hold, both literally and figuratively. Rather than contrasting…

  February 13 2012, 2:09am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 9 2012, 3:41am | Comments

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  February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Freud: The last great Enlightenment thinker

  January 22 2012, 11:07am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark What happens to a caterpillar's brain during metamorphosis?

  Basically, three things can happen to any given neuron in the central nervous system. It's a really complex proccess! A) some neurons are born very early in the caterpillar's life (embryonically)…

  November 30 2011, 11:50am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Any attempt to decipher nature and reveal its order requires certainty that the grid will not change..."

  “Any attempt to decipher nature and reveal its order requires certainty that the grid will not change in the course of the operation. There must be an assurance of regularity in the phenomena of nature… Otherwise there is no science. … [I]f a man…

  November 9 2011, 2:01am | Comments

• Tumblr I knew that sequence in The Tree of Life was missing something

  November 2 2011, 7:23am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'

  October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments

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