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Expérience de mort imminente autrement appelé EMI
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Near-Death Experiences: Explaining vs. Explaining Away

The first rule of a scientific approach should be to take seriously what is happening before rushing in with a “science can explain this” hypothesis. Read More ›
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War Between Evolutionary Biologists May Be Looming

Nathan Lents says it doesn’t make a lot of sense” to think of sex in humans as binary. Colin Wright says, “Stop misleading the public.” Read More ›
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For Good or Evil: The Contradictory Legacy of James D. Watson

Let’s hope that whoever writes the future history of science will, like the bidder for that Nobel medal, be merciful to him. Read More ›
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Helping hands, care for the elderly concept
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As Evidence of a Soul, Charles Murray and Steven Pinker Debate Terminal Lucidity

Pinker himself is fresh from getting a book tour Canceled by a humanist group. He’s apparently not one of the atheist heroes any more. Read More ›
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A Fake Headline, and a Real One, About DNA

Did you get that? “Cake,” I believe, is supposed to mean life. So obviously on earth we have cake. Read More ›
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When Science Degenerates into a Spoils System

Chemistry professor Anna Krylov forces us to look at that in discouraging detail. Read More ›
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Illustration multiplication of cells in blue
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Researchers Find Memory Outside the Brain

It it is very difficult to look at the natural world seriously and not see a mind in there somewhere. Read More ›
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Centrioles Revealed as Part of a Large Signaling Network 

What molecular structure forms cartwheels, is architecturally beautiful, and is vital for cell division? Read More ›
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Ancient Eyes, Modern Design: The Remarkable Vision of Trilobites

Does this discovery suggest that the principles of compound vision emerged nearly half a billion years ago as the authors concluded? Read More ›
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Cave with cave drawings. Cartoon mountain scene background Primitive cave paintings. ancient petroglyphs.
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In Study of Human Psychology, the Power of “Maybe”

This is not science and is not a good look for a psychology that purports to have some relationship with science. Read More ›

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