Neuroscientist Patricia Churchland cites Prairie Voles to illustrate how chemical processes inform morality. Prairie Voles with a greater number of oxytocin receptors were monogamous while those with fewer such receptors were not.
Read More ›
It is more than a passing irony that the very book -- the Origin of Species -- widely supposed to have eliminated "the supernatural" from biology, in fact keeps theology and the supernatural alive by employing theological assumptions in its key arguments.
Read More ›
The skill to contrive a computer that sits comfortably on your lap overshadows the skill it once took to build one, of lesser computing power, that took up an entire room's worth of space.
Read More ›
