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Science is far too awesome to be entrusted to the unenthusiastic.
It always disappoints me when I attenda lecture about scientific topics that are actually endlesslyfascinating and full of depth and beauty, delivered as if they weredry and mechanical pebble-counting. This does a dee… -
Nature via Nurture
[JD 2455103.40] Proof we are not genetic automatons:I can speak English. I wasn't born speaking English, I had tolearn it. I could just as easily have learned Spanish or Arabic orMandarin, as indeed many people do. … -
What I learned from the Creation Museum
As we walked out of the CreationMuseum, we were asked, by one of the officers of the Secular StudentAlliance: What did you learn from the Creation Museum? I had difficulty answering thequestion—he acknowledged th… -
The theoretical limits of data compression
\documentclass{paper} \title{The theoretical limits of data compression} \subtitle{To hold a human in a gigabyte} \author{Patrick N.R. Julius} \newcommand{\foreign}[1]{\textit{#1}} \begin{document} \maketitle [This … -
Where eugenics went wrong
Eugenics was not fundamentally wrong;it was not entirely unfounded. Of course its excesses and itsmisguided applications were great—indeed, these formed an importantpart of some of the worst atrocities the human race … -
"Maybe I'm just hungry."
<!--@page { margin: 0.79in }P { margin-bottom: 0.08in }-->Some time ago, I read a post on anonline discussion forum—I think it was on Dawkins.netactually—which made this claim: Scientists have low emotion… -
An Axiomatic Approach to Cognitive Science
Intuitionist set theory ran intounresolvable paradoxes, so it was abandoned in favor of an axiomaticapproach.The result was the Zermelo-Frankel axioms.Intuitionist cognitive science issimilarly failing. Compare the … -
An open letter to the makers of Starcraft
t;!--@page { margin: 0.79in }P { margin-bottom: 0.08in }-->Dear Blizzard: My friend and I have been discussingand debating this for some time now, and have been unable to reach asatisfactory conclusion,… -
Just different enough.
t;!--@page { margin: 0.79in }P { margin-bottom: 0.08in }-->Men and women are just differentenough. Just enough, that is, tocause strife. Werewe extremely different,more different than, say, humans ver… -
Epigenetics
DNA is like the Bible: If you try to take it all at once, it doesn't work; but when you pick and choose particular parts, you can do whatever you want.
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Virulent Senioritis
This has not been a good semester for me. I suffer... -
CFI hosted a speaker tonight.
First, it proved that the local chapter of the Cen... -
A truly excellent analysis of theology
I couldn't have said it better myself, so read it ...
