How to Tie AI into a Pretzel
August 28, 2025
A philosopher teaches a dogmatic AI engine how to think about science. Entertaining!
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Lunar Tales: What’s Going on Here?
June 29, 2025
The church teaches one thing, but school teaches another. What's a parent to do?
A Tale of Two Worms: (R)Evolution on Trial in the Age of Genomics
June 27, 2025
Through two studies about worms, we see a conceptual crisis in evolutionary biology.
Archive: Membrane Channels, Molecular Machines, Censorship, Cave Art, More
January 17, 2025
Breakthroughs, controversies, and scientists acting badly: these are other reports recovered from January 2002.
Not All Critical Thinking Is Equal
March 1, 2020
Educators believe in teaching critical thinking skills except for subjects they don't want to critique.
Why Darwin Is Like Yoda, and Darwinism Like Marxism
February 4, 2004
Homage for the master is palpable in John Vandermeer’s review (Science, Jan. 23)1 of a thick new book entitled Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution by Odling-Smee, Laland and Feldman (Princeton, 2004). Vandermeer seems almost worshipful in his opening lines: The nascent germ of many novel ideas in biology can be traced directly or […]