Brave words, but all these ‘big histories’ are obsolete now given the discovery of the eonic effect….they would get fired if they challenged the darwin paradigm…so much for …
Month: November 2018
Colbert: Trump Describes Earth’s Climate As ‘Record Clean’ – YouTube
Intelligent Design and the Logic of Hume’s Skepticism
Many remember David Hume as a pioneering freethinker who saw through the superstition and sectarian dogmatism of religion.
Source: Intelligent Design and the Logic of Hume’s Skepticism | Evolution News
Genetically Engineered Babies Are Born: Life as Potter’s Clay
The birth of gene-edited children — which I discussed here just yesterday — has been confirmed.
Source: Genetically Engineered Babies Are Born: Life as Potter’s Clay | Evolution News
Rewriting Human Origins, Ongoing in East Asia | Evolution News
The reason all these new discoveries are so noteworthy is not because they represent the usual progress of science.
Source: Rewriting Human Origins, Ongoing in East Asia | Evolution News
Evolutionary psychology: The cat among the pigeons! | Uncommon Descent
Confession: Some of us never took evolutionary psychology (a discipline whose subject died a very long time ago but allegedly lives on in all of us) seriously enough to wonder if it could actually create controversies in psychology. Apparently so:In terms of the political bias among social psychol
Source: Evolutionary psychology: The cat among the pigeons! | Uncommon Descent
Evolution Is Still True, but… | Richard Dawkins Foundation
Cannibalistic tadpoles and matricidal worms point to a powerful new helper for evolution | Science | AAAS
In a fast-changing environment, evolution can be too slow. “Plasticity” can give it a chance to catch up
It is unethical to teach evolution without confronting racism and sexism | PLOS SciComm
On November 19, 2018, Holly Dunsworth wrote the essay below and posted it on her blog, The Mermaid’s Tale. This piece was reposted with her consent by the Evolution Institute (along with an interview, which you can watch here), and again here at PLOS SciComm. In the meantime, Dr. Dunsworth received an overwhelming amount of feedback and we asked her to provide additional commentary and context at the end of her essay as a response to the feedback, both positive and negative.–JMO By Holly Dunsworth, PhD, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Rhode Island People say we’re the storytelling ape. I hear that. Though conjuring fiction is beyond me, and I only remember the worst punchlines, I love trading stories and so do you. Storytelling is a definitively human trait. But if stories make us human, what went wrong with the mother of them all? Human origins should be universally cherished but it’s not even universally known. It just doesn’t appeal to most people.
Source: It is unethical to teach evolution without confronting racism and sexism | PLOS SciComm
Scientists achieve direct electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide, raising hopes for smart carbon capture — ScienceDaily
Chemists propose an innovative way to achieve carbon capture using a rhenium-based electrocatalytic system that is capable of reducing low-concentration carbon dioxide (even 1 percent) with high selectivity and durability, which is a new potential technology to enable direct utilization of carbon dioxide in exhaust gases from heavy industries.
