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  It's time for science to move on from materialism

  January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments

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  Rereading Darwin

  January 17 2012, 5:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Era of Networked Science

  The Internet may well have its downsides, but it also has the potential to make us collectively smarter, according to open-science advocate Michael Nielsen. In Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of…

  January 13 2012, 2:41am | Comments

• Bookmark The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith

  The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and…

  December 22 2011, 12:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark Trials and Errors: The limits of reductionism & why science fails us

  This mental approach to causality is often effective, which is why it’s so deeply embedded in the brain. However, those same shortcuts get us into serious trouble in the modern world…

  December 20 2011, 4:31am | Comments

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  How the internet transforms scientific discovery

  December 18 2011, 2:05am | Comments

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  The science of poetry, the poetry of science

  December 9 2011, 4:35pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Birth of Physics (Philosophy of science) by Michel Serres

  December 8 2011, 7:31am | Comments

• Bibliography Genesis (Studies in Literature & Science) by Michel Serres

  December 8 2011, 7:31am | Comments

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

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Neuroscience Challenges Old Ideas about Free Will: "Human knowledge can’t help itself…

  Do we have free will? It is an age-old question which has attracted the attention of philosophers, theologians, lawyers and political theorists. Now it is attracting the attention of neuroscience, explains…

  November 23 2011, 2:53am | Comments

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  As scientists began to build a database of human DNA in the 1990s, it became possible to test these ideas with genes. In his talk, Paabo described how he and his…

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  “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

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  Threshold science

  November 2 2011, 6:51am | Comments

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  Explaining the Neuroscience of the Zombie Epidemic

  October 23 2011, 3:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Roots of Religion: Myth, Play and Human Evolution

  Robert Bellah, one of America's most distinguished sociologists, caps off his luminous academic career with "Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age" , a near 800-page magnum…

  October 19 2011, 3:17am | Comments

• Bookmark The case for reconciling the scientific with the divine -- and against…

  As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious…

  October 8 2011, 10:01am | Comments

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  John Gray: "Science may be the cumulative elimination of error, but the human fondness for toxic ideas is remarkably constant."

  October 6 2011, 5:23am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or..."

  “Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.” - J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition…

  September 30 2011, 5:16am | Comments

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  “Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

  September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Can religion tell us more than science?

  In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and against…

  September 20 2011, 3:12am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…

  “What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

  September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments

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  August 31 2011, 6:40am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

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  Shock: Adam and Eve NEVER existed! (If it wasn't for you pesky biochemists...) http://t.co/hjiA8lK #religion #faith #belief #science #x

  August 18 2011, 1:37am | Comments

• Tumblr The Science of Nothing; The Philosophy of Everything

  August 17 2011, 5:34am | Comments

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  Is Craig Venter going to save the planet? Or, is this more hype from one of America’s most controversial scientists? - The Washington Post

  August 15 2011, 2:23am | Comments

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  How to write faster. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine

  August 12 2011, 9:11am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Bookmark On Discovering Life

  There is an aspect of life sciences that has been largely absent: the confrontation of fundamental questions of biology much as particle accelerators grapple with fundamental questions of physics. The roll…

  July 27 2011, 3:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark What's human? What's animal? And what of the biology in between?

  Friday's report by the Academy of Medical Sciences on the increasingly fuzzy boundaries between the human and the animal is the latest in a long series of policy reflections on how…

  July 25 2011, 3:20pm | Comments

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  July 22 2011, 1:47am | Comments

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  It's time for science to move on from materialism

  January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Rereading Darwin

  January 17 2012, 5:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Era of Networked Science

  The Internet may well have its downsides, but it also has the potential to make us collectively smarter, according to open-science advocate Michael Nielsen. In Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of…

  January 13 2012, 2:41am | Comments

• Bookmark The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith

  The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and…

  December 22 2011, 12:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark Trials and Errors: The limits of reductionism & why science fails us

  This mental approach to causality is often effective, which is why it’s so deeply embedded in the brain. However, those same shortcuts get us into serious trouble in the modern world…

  December 20 2011, 4:31am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How the internet transforms scientific discovery

  December 18 2011, 2:05am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The science of poetry, the poetry of science

  December 9 2011, 4:35pm | Comments

• Bibliography The Birth of Physics (Philosophy of science) by Michel Serres

  December 8 2011, 7:31am | Comments

• Bibliography Genesis (Studies in Literature & Science) by Michel Serres

  December 8 2011, 7:31am | Comments

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

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Neuroscience Challenges Old Ideas about Free Will: "Human knowledge can’t help itself…

  Do we have free will? It is an age-old question which has attracted the attention of philosophers, theologians, lawyers and political theorists. Now it is attracting the attention of neuroscience, explains…

  November 23 2011, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Neanderthal Neuroscience

  As scientists began to build a database of human DNA in the 1990s, it became possible to test these ideas with genes. In his talk, Paabo described how he and his…

  November 21 2011, 2:09am | 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

• Twitter Favourites

  Threshold science

  November 2 2011, 6:51am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Explaining the Neuroscience of the Zombie Epidemic

  October 23 2011, 3:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Roots of Religion: Myth, Play and Human Evolution

  Robert Bellah, one of America's most distinguished sociologists, caps off his luminous academic career with "Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age" , a near 800-page magnum…

  October 19 2011, 3:17am | Comments

• Bookmark The case for reconciling the scientific with the divine -- and against…

  As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious…

  October 8 2011, 10:01am | Comments

• Twitter

  John Gray: "Science may be the cumulative elimination of error, but the human fondness for toxic ideas is remarkably constant."

  October 6 2011, 5:23am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or..."

  “Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.” - J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition…

  September 30 2011, 5:16am | Comments

• Bookmark On Science Transfer

  “Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

  September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Can religion tell us more than science?

  In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and against…

  September 20 2011, 3:12am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…

  “What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

  September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments

• Vimeo

  August 31 2011, 6:40am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Shock: Adam and Eve NEVER existed! (If it wasn't for you pesky biochemists...) http://t.co/hjiA8lK #religion #faith #belief #science #x

  August 18 2011, 1:37am | Comments

• Tumblr The Science of Nothing; The Philosophy of Everything

  August 17 2011, 5:34am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Is Craig Venter going to save the planet? Or, is this more hype from one of America’s most controversial scientists? - The Washington Post

  August 15 2011, 2:23am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How to write faster. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine

  August 12 2011, 9:11am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Bookmark On Discovering Life

  There is an aspect of life sciences that has been largely absent: the confrontation of fundamental questions of biology much as particle accelerators grapple with fundamental questions of physics. The roll…

  July 27 2011, 3:05pm | Comments

• Bookmark What's human? What's animal? And what of the biology in between?

  Friday's report by the Academy of Medical Sciences on the increasingly fuzzy boundaries between the human and the animal is the latest in a long series of policy reflections on how…

  July 25 2011, 3:20pm | Comments

• Tumblr The Objectuals

  July 22 2011, 1:47am | Comments

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