Newly discovered water bear (tardigrade) even beats radiation
Now Nature endorses Joe Biden for US Prez—and doesn’t seem to realize what it is doing to itself
Robert J. Marks on the “Listen to science” mantra
Putting Richard Dawkins’s evolution claims to a computer science test
ID and space exploration: The Privileged Planet Hypothesis
Physicist Rob Sheldon checks out astrophysicist Ethan Siegel for ridiculing Nobelist Roger Penrose
Studies: Stars produce carbon faster than thought
Now the Journal of Theoretical Biology is publishing a rebuttal letter to the design-friendly paper
(Reformed) New Scientist 12: Evolution favors some outcomes, not others
Sabine Hossenfelder Promotes Determinism
Yesterday theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder became the latest in a long line of smart people to make the absurd claim of determinism, and that therefore there is no such thing as free will. This silliness traces at least as far back as Laplace and is based on the idea that any system evolves from time point 1 to time point 2 according to the laws of nature. As Hossenfelder puts it: (read more …)
Judge Amy Coney Barrett begins US Supreme Court nomination hearings
Judge Barrett has issued the text of her remarks ahead of the hearings. She is President Trump’s third nominee and the hearings are liable to be contentious, one hopes the sort of accusations raised against Mr Kavanaugh will not occur. It is to be noted that election year nominations to the Supreme Court have happened a significant number of times since the 1790’s. Over the past century and more, several times, nominees proposed by a president of one party with a Senate dominated by the other have failed, while same-party nominations have typically gone through. The US Constitution simply stipulates Presidential nomination and Senate “advice and consent.” In past decades, such were not contentious, but the Court has deteriorated into Read More ›