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Though some critics refuse to go near anything associated with Templeton, others are forced by its ubiquity to make compromises. Sean Carroll, for one, will work only on scientific projects funded by Templeton (such as the FQXi) that aren't solely under the foundation's banner. "It represents a serious ethical dilemma," says A.C. Grayling, a British philosopher and former columnist for New Scientist magazine; he accuses the foundation of "borrowing respectability from science for religion."
Posted: 09.03.10 | 0 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Though very few of those who played Foldit had any significant background in biochemistry, the gamers tended to beat Rosetta when it came to solving structures. In a series of ten challenges, they outperformed the algorithms on five and drew even on another three.
Tags: Science, Video Games
Posted: 08.04.10 | 0 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
In this seamless translation, author and French biology professor Morange (The Misunderstood Gene) addresses the question "What is life?" by looking at answers from Aristotle to the atomic age and "bringing out the various points of agreement and contradiction hidden among them." After addressing definitions of life proposed by others, Morange outlines "three essential characteristics" of life: reproductive ability, complex molecular structures and the metabolic replication of those structures. From there, Morange discusses a range of current inquiries, among them astrobiology research, genome studies and adaptation in extreme conditions.
Tags: Philosophy, Science
Posted: 04.28.10 | 0 | BOOK | GO TO LINK
OpenSourceScience is a public space for managing controversial scientific experiments in a way that provides open access to of all phases of the research. We provide a centralized resource for scientific collaboration, and help underwrite scientifically rigorous experiments that may contribute to an improved understanding of human consciousness.
Posted: 04.16.10 | 0 | WEB SITE | GO TO LINK
This podcast is a leading source for intelligent, hard-nosed skeptic vs. believer debate on science and spirituality. Each episode features lively discussion with leading researchers, thinkers, and their critics.
Tags: Skepticism, Science
Posted: 04.16.10 | 0 | AUDIO | GO TO LINK
Supposedly, the proper use of statistics makes relying on scientific results a safe bet. But in practice, widespread misuse of statistical methods makes science more like a crapshoot.
Tags: Science, Statistics
Posted: 03.15.10 | 0 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday.
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Posted: 03.02.10 | 1 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Nerves in the beaks of birds may not only serve as a "sixth sense" compass but are also magnetometers capable of measuring the intensity and inclination of the Earth's magnetic field. Researchers at the Goethe University Frankfurt previously studied iron-containing nerve branches in the beaks of homing pigeons.
Posted: 03.02.10 | 0 | BLOG ENTRY | GO TO LINK
Needless to say, not everyone will be pleased by this argument. Those strong religionists who believe that the overweening claims of science (or scientism) must be denounced daily will not be pleased by an argument that says nothing about redemption, salvation and sin, and gives full marks to science’s achievements. (Smith, a pupil of B.F. Skinner’s, has been a sympathetic and knowledgeable student of science for many years.) And those materialist atheists who see religion as the source of many of the world’s evils and all of its ignorance will not be pleased by an argument that finds an honorable place for religious beliefs and practices.
Posted: 02.01.10 | 0 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reported Thursday they have taken a major step toward harnessing the forces that power the sun in an effort to create unlimited energy on Earth.
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Posted: 01.29.10 | 0 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Richard Feynman sharing his wisdom.
Posted: 01.27.10 | 1 | VIDEO | GO TO LINK
Arcadia is a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard concerning the relationship between past and present and between order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge.
Posted: 01.27.10 | 0 | WIKIPEDIA | GO TO LINK
Perhaps the biggest question of all is whether the process of inquiry that has revealed so much about the universe since the time of Galileo and Kepler is nearing the end of the line. "I worry whether we've come to the limits of empirical science," says Lawrence Krauss of Arizona State University.
Posted: 01.26.10 | 0 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
In this wide-ranging assortment of 150 brief essays, well-known figures from every conceivable field demonstrate why it's a prerogative of all thoughtful people to change their mind once in a while. Technologist Ray Kurzweil says he now shares Enrico Fermi's question: if other intelligent civilizations exist, then where are they? Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Black Swan) reveals that he has lost faith in probability as a guiding light for making decisions. Oliver Morton (Mapping Mars) confesses that he has lost his childlike faith in the value of manned space flight to distant worlds. J. Craig Venter, celebrated for his work on the human genome, has ceased to believe that nature can absorb any abuses that we subject it to, and that world governments must move quickly to prevent global disaster. Alan Alda says, So far, I've changed my mind twice about God, going from believer to atheist to agnostic. Brockman, editor of Edge.org and numerous anthologies, has pulled together a thought-provoking collection of focused and tightly argued pieces demonstrating the courage to change strongly held convictions.
Posted: 01.17.10 | 0 | BOOK | GO TO LINK
Science and religion both make claims about the fundamental workings of the universe. Although these claims are not a priori incompatible (we could imagine being brought to religious belief through scientific investigation), I will argue that in practice they diverge. If we believe that the methods of science can be used to discriminate between fundamental pictures of reality, we are led to a strictly materialist conception of the universe. While the details of modern cosmology are not a necessary part of this argument, they provide interesting clues as to how an ultimate picture may be constructed.
Posted: 01.04.10 | 3 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
The news here is not that people are irrational, giving too much credence to the dramatic and the local and the short-term (that's not news), but that people have added a veneer of scientific rationality to their irrational decisions. Armed with Zagats or internet data or some rumor off Snopes, we act as though now we're supremely rational choicemakers.
Posted: 11.27.09 | 0 | BLOG ENTRY | GO TO LINK
Randi has debunked more than 100 psychics and faith healers in a quest to rid the world of hucksters. Now, however, Randi's work may be in jeopardy. His foundation has been hemorrhaging money, and Randi, who has spent his career challenging the notion of an afterlife, now faces his own mortality. He has intestinal cancer and may not have long to live. He has been a commanding presence for four decades, but it's unclear who could fill his role as the face of the skeptic community.
Posted: 08.31.09 | 0 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
We belong to a remarkably quirky species. Despite our best efforts, some of our strangest foibles still defy explanation But as science probes deeper into these eccentricities, it is becoming clear that behaviours and attributes that seem frivolous at first glance often go to the heart of what it means to be human.
Posted: 08.12.09 | 0 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
The relationship between religion and science has been a focus of the Demarcation problem. Statements about the world made by science and religion rely on different methodologies. Religions rely on revelation while science relies on observable, repeatable experiences.
Posted: 08.05.09 | 0 | WIKIPEDIA | GO TO LINK
By now, it is a familiar litany. Study after study suggests that alcohol in moderation may promote heart health and even ward off diabetes and dementia. The evidence is so plentiful that some experts consider moderate drinking about one drink a day for women, about two for men a central component of a healthy lifestyle. But what if its all a big mistake?
Posted: 07.30.09 | 0 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
The history of science is all around us, if you know where to look. With this unique traveler's guide, you'll learn about 128 destinations around the world where discoveries in science, mathematics, or technology occurred or is happening now.
Tags: Science
Posted: 06.10.09 | 23 | BOOK | GO TO LINK
Broadly, scientists think about how well a belief is supported by looking at its justifying evidence, whereas the antivaxxers decide on the conclusion often based on what they believe about their children and then bend or reject any evidence to fit the mould.
Posted: 05.29.09 | 4 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Why are some people more spiritual than others? Is there a God gene? Is there a God spot in the brain, a place where God communicates with us? Are we hard-wired to connect with God? Can we train ourselves to access another, spiritual realm? Is there life after death? And for that matter, is there any evidence for God at all?
Posted: 05.23.09 | 12 | WEB SITE | GO TO LINK
SkepticBlog is a collaboration among some of the most recognized names in promoting science, critical thinking, and skepticism. It also features the cast and producers of The Skeptologists, a pilot skeptical reality show.
Tags: Skepticism, Science
Posted: 05.18.09 | 16 | BLOG | GO TO LINK
It may look like one of Michael Bay's Transformers, but this mass of machinery could soon be the birthplace of a baby star right here on Earth.
Posted: 05.06.09 | 21 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
A look at some of the flawed thinking that prompts people who believe in certain non-scientific concepts to advise others who don't to be more open-minded.
Posted: 04.14.09 | 18 | VIDEO | GO TO LINK
Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, best-selling author, and popularizer of science. He’s the co-founder of string field theory (a branch of string theory), and continues Einstein’s search to unite the four fundamental forces of nature into one unified theory.
Tags: Science, Quantum Physics
Posted: 04.12.09 | 19 | WEB SITE | GO TO LINK
Perhaps most importantly, we as doctors and patients must be open to evidence. Pills and surgery are potent symbols of healing power, but our faith in these symbols has often blinded us to truths. Somewhere along the line, theory trumped reality. Administering a medicine or performing a surgery became more important than its effect.
Posted: 04.09.09 | 20 | BLOG ENTRY | GO TO LINK
1. Robotics. This is probably the most well-known of these, since Isaac Asimov is famous for (among many other things) his three laws of robotics. Even so, I include it because it is one of the only actual sciences to have been first named in a science fiction story (”Liar!”, 1941). Asimov also named the related occupation (roboticist) and the adjective robotic.
Tags: Science Fiction, Science
Posted: 04.08.09 | 18 | BLOG ENTRY | GO TO LINK
Learn about the frontiers of human health from seven of Stanford's most innovative faculty members. Inspired by a format used at the TED Conference (http://www.ted.com), each speaker delivers a highly engaging talk in just 10-20 minutes about his or her research. Learn about Stanford's newest and most exciting discoveries in neuroscience, bioengineering, brain imaging, psychology, and more.
Posted: 04.01.09 | 19 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Science, ironically, is finding answers to the question of why evolution stands such a poor chance against religion. There is growing evidence that man, as a result of his brain, is wired to believe in higher powers, not just because of his fear of death.
Posted: 01.28.09 | 23 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
I think he is wrong: the evolution of the biosphere, the economy, our human culture and perhaps aspects of the abiotic world, stand partially free of physical law and are not entailed by fundamental physics. The universe is open.
Posted: 01.24.09 | 19 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
It should be obvious: Scientists are human beings and their scientific theories reflect normal human mechanisms of thought, called frames and metaphors by some cognitive scientists and models and analogies by others. James Clerk Maxwell was no exception. His laws of electromagnetism were structured by those forms of human cognition. In Creating Scientific Concepts, Nancy Nersessian demonstrates this beyond question. The book is a tour de force by a great cognitive scientist of science.
Posted: 10.28.08 | 60 | BOOK | GO TO LINK
A piece online in The Scientist is an example of silly handwringing by science educators. James Williams, who describes himself as a science educator who trains science graduates to become science teachers, despairs because most trainee teachers he teaches don't have a clue about what makes science "science."
Tags: Science
Posted: 10.17.08 | 31 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
An excellent list of books, compiled by Shermer, for younger minds and non-scientists.
Tags: Science, Michael Shermer
Posted: 10.04.08 | 52 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
John Grant's handsome little hardcover book "Corrupted Science: Fraud, Ideology, and Politics in Science," is an eye-popping tour through the history of bad (very, very bad) science, from eugenics to geocentrism to Lysenkoism. Grant -- whose stern historical tone is liberally relieved with bravura dry sarcasm -- approaches his topic from the general to the specific.
Tags: Science, BoingBoing
Posted: 09.22.08 | 51 | BLOG ENTRY | GO TO LINK
Epigenetics is the study of heritable traits that are not dependent on the primary sequence of DNA.
Posted: 08.26.08 | 50 | BLOG ENTRY | GO TO LINK
In the successor to his provocative bestseller The Mind of God, the cosmologist Paul Davies tackles another big question: Why does the universe seem so well suited for life? One popular explanation is the "multiverse theory," which sounds like it came straight from a science fiction plot. It posits that our universe is just one of an infinite number of universes--each slightly different. Only in those rare universes where things are accidentally "just right" for life could observers emerge to puzzle over the fact. In The Goldilocks Enigma, Davies ponders this and other seemingly bizarre answers to the grand question of existence. He offers lucid descriptions of the science behind these theories and delights in their philosophical implications. Once again, Davies invites us to think about the cosmos and our place within it in new and thrilling ways.
Tags: Philosophy, Science
Posted: 08.21.08 | 56 | BOOK | GO TO LINK
This time Davies (coauthor of The Matter Myth , LJ 3/1/92) takes on the big philosophical questions raised by our increasing understanding of how the universe works: How did it all start? Why is there a universe at all? Is there a God and, if so, has He/She any limitations? That is, could the laws of physics have been different? Who made the laws? Why are we here? Could there be a universe devoid of life? Many people feel that these issues fall into the realm of religion, not science. The message of Davies's book is that most of these questions are unanswerable but only people with an appreciation of modern science can understand how deep they really are. Davies is an excellent writer about science per se and its philosophical implications. A worthwhile acquisition for all science collections.
Tags: Philosophy, Science
Posted: 08.21.08 | 40 | BOOK | GO TO LINK
Crick's controversial message, "You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules" [2] has caused some controversy over the physiological approach.
Posted: 08.21.08 | 42 | WIKIPEDIA | GO TO LINK
Lisi believed that he had discovered what physicists call a Theory of Everythinga unifying idea that aims to incorporate all the universes forces in a single mathematical framework. Within four months, Lee Smolin, one of the founders of loop quantum gravity, said that Lisi had one of the most compelling unification models he had seen in years. Discusses the persistent legend of the hermit genius in physics, from David Deutsch to Albert Einstein. Lisi got his Ph.D from the University of California at San Diego and, at thirty-one, dropped out of academia.
Posted: 07.20.08 | 67 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
A list of unsolved problems may refer to several conjectures or open problems in various fields.
Posted: 07.18.08 | 41 | WIKIPEDIA | GO TO LINK
Seed (subtitled Beneath the Surface, then Science Is Culture) is a science magazine published bimonthly by Seed Media Group and distributed internationally. Each issue looks at big ideas in science, important issues at the intersection of science and society, and the people driving global science culture.
Posted: 06.03.08 | 49 | WEB SITE | GO TO LINK
The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA's Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent whistlers' produced by fleeting electrons .
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Posted: 06.03.08 | 36 | VIDEO | GO TO LINK
Physicists have come up with a way to explain how information could escape from a black hole, an idea that's been debated since the 1970s.
Tags: Science, Black Holes
Posted: 05.19.08 | 61 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
A few weeks ago, devoted listeners of National Public Radio member stations* were treated to an episode of the award-winning radio series The Infinite Mind called "Prozac Nation: Revisited." The segment featured four prestigious medical experts discussing the controversial link between antidepressants and suicide. In their considered opinions, all four said that worries about the drugs have been overblown.
Posted: 05.07.08 | 65 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
One in five Nature readers -- mostly scientists -- say they up their mental performance with drugs such as Ritalin, Provigil, and Inderal.
Posted: 04.10.08 | 64 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
The new study suggests that the universe that came before our own universe was its identical twin.
Posted: 04.09.08 | 38 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
WHEN IS A person dead -- or dead enough? The question has long influenced decisions about when it's appropriate to end medical treatment for people who are hopelessly ill. However, a quieter debate has simmered for years about how the concept of death informs the practice of organ transplantation.
Posted: 03.21.08 | 42 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
The scientific method makes one assumption, and one assumption only: the Universe obeys a set of rules. That’s it. There is one corollary, and that is that if the Universe follows these rules, then those rules can be deduced by observing the way Universe behaves. This follows naturally; if it obeys the rules, then the rules must be revealed by that behavior.
Posted: 02.20.08 | 49 | BLOG ENTRY | GO TO LINK
But these signals are more ambiguous than those he spotted in newborn babies and far more controversial in their implications. Even as some research suggests that fetuses can feel pain as preterm babies do, other evidence indicates that they are anatomically, biochemically and psychologically distinct from babies in ways that make the experience of pain unlikely. The truth about fetal pain can seem as murky as an image on an ultrasound screen, a glimpse of a creature at once recognizably human and uncomfortably strange.
Posted: 02.11.08 | 95 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Today we live in a less barbaric age, but an otherwise comparable disjunction between science and religion still roils the public mind. Why does such intense and pervasive resistance to evolution continue 150 years after the publication of On The Origin of Species, and in the teeth of the overwhelming accumulated evidence favouring it? The answer is simply that the Darwinian revolution, even more than the Copernican revolution, challenges the prehistoric and still-regnant self-image of humanity. Evolution by natural selection, to be as concise as possible, has changed everything.
Posted: 12.10.07 | 79 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
A former senior writer at Scientific American investigates the physics of mystical experiences like prayer, fasting, and trances.
Tags: Meditation, Science
Posted: 11.27.07 | 96 | BOOK | GO TO LINK
Most people in Hindu and Buddhist countries, Dr. Silver says, have a root tradition in which there is no single creator God. Instead, there may be no gods or many gods, and there is no master plan for the universe. Instead, spirits are eternal and individual virtue karma determines what happens to your spirit in your next life. With some exceptions, this view generally allows the acceptance of both embryo research to support life and genetically modified crops. By contrast, in the Judeo-Christian tradition, God is the master creator who gives out new souls to each individual human being and gives humans dominion over soul-less plants and animals. To traditional Christians who consider an embryo to be a human being with a soul, it is wrong for scientists to use cloning to create human embryos or to destroy embryos in the course of research.
Posted: 11.21.07 | 75 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews from scientists.
Tags: Science, Mathematics
Posted: 11.15.07 | 82 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
What would it feel like if your spaceship were to venture too close to the black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way? According to astrophysicist Tyson, director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium, size does matter when it comes to black holes, although the chances of your surviving the encounter aren't good in any case. Tyson takes readers on an exciting journey from Earth's hot springs, where extremophiles flourish in hellish conditions, to the frozen, desolate stretches of the Oort Cloud and the universe's farthest reaches, in both space and time.
Tags: Science, Black Holes
Posted: 11.13.07 | 102 | BOOK | GO TO LINK
This review does a great job, in my opinion, of summing up what Science knows and doesn't know. "Science proved that the Universe does NOT revolve around the Earth. Well, it has also proven that it does NOT revolve around humans either. And since scientifically, we Humans are nothing special, how can we entertain the notion that Real is ONLY whatever we can grasp? That concept is pure theology at best - if not superstitious. "
Posted: 11.13.07 | 76 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
The Big Bang theory of the origin of our universe is widely accepted by the physics community. The idea that our universe started out as some infinitesimally small point, which expanded out to what we see today, makes a lot of sense. Except for one small thing. That initial point, called a singularity by physicists, is a physical impossibility.
Posted: 11.13.07 | 58 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
The ultimate fate of the universe is a topic in physical cosmology. Many possible fates are predicted by rival scientific theories, including futures of both finite and infinite duration. Once the notion that the universe started with a Big Bang became popular among scientists, the ultimate fate of the universe became a valid cosmological question, one depending upon the physical properties of the mass/energy in the universe, its average density, and the rate of expansion.
Tags: Science
Posted: 11.12.07 | 48 | WIKIPEDIA | GO TO LINK
The cosmic egg is a concept developed in the 1930s and explored by theoreticians during the following two decades. The idea comes from a perceived need to reconcile Edwin Hubble's observation of an expanding universe (which is also predicted by Einstein's equations of general relativity) with the notion that the universe must be eternally old.
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Posted: 11.06.07 | 34 | WIKIPEDIA | GO TO LINK
Professor Hanson said yesterday: "They are metabolically similar to Lance Armstrong biking up the Pyrenees. They utilise mainly fatty acids for energy and produce very little lactic acid. They are not eating or drinking and yet they can run for four or five hours. They are 10 times more active than ordinary mice in their home cage. They also live longer up to three years of age and are reproductively active for almost three years. In short, they are remarkable animals. "On the downside, they eat twice as much as control mice, but they are half the weight, and are very aggressive. Why this is the case, we are not really sure."
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Posted: 11.02.07 | 57 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Emergent structures are patterns not created by a single event or rule. Nothing commands the system to form a pattern. Instead, the interaction of each part with its immediate surroundings causes a complex chain of processes leading to some order. One might conclude that emergent structures are more than the sum of their parts because the emergent order will not arise if the various parts are simply coexisting; the interaction of these parts is central.
Tags: Technology, Science
Posted: 10.28.07 | 60 | WIKIPEDIA | GO TO LINK
For truly solid-gold, well-established science, let's stop using the word theory entirely. Instead, let's revive much more venerable language and refer to such knowledge as "law." As with Newton's law of gravity, people intuitively understand that a law is a rule that holds true and must be obeyed. The word law conveys precisely the same sense of authority with the public as theory does with scientists, but without the linguistic baggage.
Posted: 10.25.07 | 81 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
With impressively clear prose, Lehrer explores the oft-overlooked places in literary history where novelists, poets and the occasional cookbook writer predicted scientific breakthroughs with their artistic insights.
Posted: 10.25.07 | 98 | BOOK | GO TO LINK
Maybe my next book will be Kanye West Was a Neuroscientist. He's making use of the same musical principles as Beethoven, the same idea of building toward a pattern but then denying the listener that pattern by injecting randomness, because that unexpectedness is what your auditory cortex really craves.
Posted: 10.25.07 | 102 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
"Einstein keeps talking about God: what are we to make of that? It is extremely difficult to imagine that a scientist like Einstein should have such strong ties with a religious tradition." "Not so much Einstein as Max Planck, from some of Planck's utterances it would seem that he sees no contradiction between religion and science, indeed that he believes the two are perfectly compatible."
Posted: 10.19.07 | 54 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
In Gods Mechanics, Brother Guy tells the stories of those who identify with the scientific mindsetso-called techieswhile practicing religion. A full fledged techie himself, he relates some classic philosophical reflections, his interviews with dozens of fellow techies, and his own personal take on his Catholic beliefs to provide, like a set of worked out sample problems, the hard data on the challenges and joys of embracing a life of faith as a techie. And he also gives a roadmap of the traps that can befall an unwary techie believer.
Posted: 10.19.07 | 98 | BOOK | GO TO LINK
God's Mechanics is a relgionist's explanation of his faith, in terms aimed at showing techies how one of their own can simultaneously believe in supernatural phenomena and practice rigorous, materialistic science.
Posted: 10.19.07 | 69 | BLOG ENTRY | GO TO LINK
"There isn't just one dimension of time," Itzhak Bars of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles tells New Scientist. "There are two. One whole dimension of time and another of space have until now gone entirely unnoticed by us."
Posted: 10.12.07 | 75 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Scientists already suspected birds' eyes contain molecules that are thought to sense Earth's magnetic field. In a new study, German researchers found that these molecules are linked to an area of the brain known to process visual information.
Tags: Neuroscience, Science
Posted: 10.09.07 | 55 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
The Dana Foundation Important Books on the Brain An Annotated Bibliography of Fiction and NonFiction
A very comprehensive list of books about the brain.
Tags: Neuroscience, Science
Posted: 09.19.07 | 39 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
According to the Blakeslees, body maps are created by the brain, using touch, to spell out the brain's experience of the body and the space around it.
Posted: 09.13.07 | 75 | BOOK | GO TO LINK
A nice overview of his life and philosophies.
Tags: Consciousness, Science
Posted: 08.31.07 | 46 | WIKIPEDIA | GO TO LINK
Focus on the brain at Scientific American.
Tags: Neuroscience, Science
Posted: 08.31.07 | 45 | WEB SITE | GO TO LINK
Randi and other magicians discuss there art and how it relates to human fallibility.
Posted: 08.23.07 | 65 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Nice overview from Discover magazine on ten big mysteries.
Tags: Neuroscience, Science
Posted: 08.23.07 | 55 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Two scientists claim to have move a microwave photon of light 'instantly'.
Tags: Science
Posted: 08.16.07 | 43 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
The mysterious cosmic presence called dark energy, which is accelerating the expansion of the universe, might be lurking in hidden dimensions of space.
Tags: Science
Posted: 07.26.07 | 44 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
aim is to help people like him, who rejected stale school textbooks and dry explanations, to appreciate how we have used science to understand the smallest particles and the unimaginably vast expanses of space.
Tags: Science
Posted: 07.26.07 | 39 | BOOK | GO TO LINK
Highly rated book. Randall, a professor of physics at Harvard, offers a tour of current questions in particle physics, string theory, and cosmology, paying particular attention to the thesis that more physical dimensions exist than are usually acknowledged.
Tags: Science, Quantum Physics
Posted: 07.26.07 | 84 | BOOK | GO TO LINK
An article from the NYTimes reprinted in Dawkin's web site about how science is putting to rest the idea of a soul (in other words, dualism).
Posted: 07.02.07 | 58 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Discusess the decline of scientific knowledge in our culture and also how John Brockman is developiong the 'third culture' . Natalie Angier's book 'A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science' is cited as the minimum amount of information a person should know about science.
Tags: Science, John Brockman
Posted: 07.02.07 | 106 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Using the Quantum Loop Theory, a scientist attempts to model what came before the Big Bang.
Posted: 07.02.07 | 37 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Angier distills everything you've forgotten from your high school science classes and more into one enjoyable book, a guide for the scientifically perplexed adult who wants to understand what those guys in lab coats on the news are babbling about, in the realms of physics, chemistry, biology, geology or astronomy.
Tags: Science
Posted: 07.02.07 | 61 | BOOK | GO TO LINK
Classic video showing, as Dennett also shows in his video, that human perception is fallible.
Tags: Science
Posted: 06.27.07 | 38 | VIDEO | GO TO LINK
In earlier work, Raymond Tallis defends the distinctive nature of human consciousness against the misrepresentations of many philosophers and cognitive scientists who aimed to reduce it to a set of functions understood in evolutionary, neurobiological, and computational terms. This book continues to investigate these implications of human nature advanced in his earlier works for our understanding of the nature of truth, of language, of the mind, and of the self.
Posted: 06.19.07 | 110 | BOOK | GO TO LINK
Excellent resource for all sorts of Science related ramblings.
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Posted: 06.12.07 | 26 | ARTICLE | GO TO LINK
Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends--and their amazing links to recent discoveries.
Tags: Consciousness, Science
Posted: 05.29.07 | 63 | BOOK | GO TO LINK
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