Elbein: "The monkeys — long-tailed macaques — seem to have made their artifacts by accident, not by design. But in many ways, that only makes the finding more disruptive." Read More ›
So it’s sort of like your great-uncle and aunt made the tools, not your great-grandparents. And that's supposed to make all the difference? Meanwhile, another "subhuman" candidate to scratch off the list. Read More ›
The science writers’ behavior around the origin of COVID raises the question: About what other, less immediate but more profound topics, are these professional non-skeptics obfuscating things? Read More ›
When science becomes scientism, people who call out the bad stuff become heretics, not just critics. We saw plenty of that during the COVID crazy. Read More ›
Has Frank just given away the store to theists? The situation is exactly what we would expect if the cosmos is designed by a supernatural intelligence. We can learn how it works but the inventor exists and works at a higher level. We get only scattered, partial insights as to that. Read More ›
And, as Ethan Seigel goes on to say at Big Think, “Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.” Read More ›
"A new study of violent behavior in more than 1,000 mammal species found the meerkat is the mammal most likely to be murdered by one of its own kind." Could someone please post the Meerkat Ten Commandments? Ten Suggestions even? Read More ›
Those "new species" that radiation would produce have always existed and always will exist — in the human imagination at least. Meanwhile, it is just the dogs. “Evolution” led them back to your basic dog. Read More ›
Requarth: "Russell’s conception of our species, along with every other living thing, as mere energy patterns, ultimately born of rogue fluctuations in the Universe’s infancy, might make us feel a little less special." Maybe that's the point of many origin of life theories... Read More ›
How long will it be before it’s pushed back to 10,000 years ago? It’s not that difficult a technology to grasp. Absent the internal combustion engine, horses are usually worth more to humans alive than dead. Read More ›