October 2011
Paul Greenberg offers some reflections on how a science community copes with discordant data … or doesn’t
Did eyesight really touch off Cambrian explosion?
Intelligent design theory in Germany – spotted on radar
Here’s neuroscientist Russ Poldrack (U Texas Austin) on neuroscience as neurotrash (in media)
One hundred and one unsolved puzzles in evolutionary development (evo-devo)?
Apparently, many neuroscientists are tired of the neurotrash littering the media
New atheist Sam Harris has some interesting things to say about the new media
Skeptical mathematician Peter Woit on the faster-than-light neutrinos …
String theory, not supported by evidence, posits extra dimensions … and therefore demonstrates them?
Are you someone, or do you know anyone, who needs to justify the money you spend going to school?
Look at this. Most school money is a waste. Sure. But not all. You have to fit you to the program. If people spent a bit of time buying an education, a house, or a car, they’d save themselves a bill.