Darwiniana

New York will swallow the East River before the East River swallows New York.

Source: Why New York is expanding into the East River.

The problem with neurointerventions is not the loss of control, since we’re not fully in control anyway

Source: We aren’t really in control so why worry about neurointerventions? | Aeon Ideas

The Brown University biologist is still out there, reassuring the world that unguided “evolutionary mechanisms” comfortably explain the wonders of biology.

Source: With Kenneth Miller, Behe’s Would-Be Nemesis, History Repeats Itself | Evolution News

You should be suspicious of any science claim that could have been thought up as a sheer work of the imagination. The multiverse is just such a concept: Somewhere, everything and its opposite happens or doesn’t, in an infinity of infinities. No math needed.

Source: An astrophysicist makes clear why a multiverse MUST exist | Uncommon Descent

Source: NIH and top scientists call for moratorium on gene-edited babies | Richard Dawkins Foundation

The artwork accompanying a recent essay makes them look positively human. Just where Ooga! Ooga! has got himself to now, we are not sure.

Source: The Neanderthals are undergoing a renaissance | Uncommon Descent