Tag: books

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 2, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Political Science
Technology
Tagged
, adults, americans, books, government, Harvard Gazette, humans, Jill Sonke, Nation’s Report Card, National Endowment for the Arts, reading, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rose Horowitch, Sam Leith, Sarah Kuta, Sebastian Faulks, Smithsonian Magazine, The AI Delusion, The Atlantic, The Spectator, thinking, twentysomethings, University of Florida, young people}

Abandonment of Books Would Have Devastating Consequences

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 2, 2026

Computational Sciences, Political Science, Technology

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If we reach the point where most people cannot muster that level of sustained attention, changes unwelcome to many of us are inevitable. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 1, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, books, certainty, chatbots, Christianity, courage, creativity, Creativity and Its Cultivation, curiosity, Erich Fromm, faith, Germans, Google, Harold H. Anderson, Hebrew Scriptures, Henri Poincaré, Martin Buber, Nicolai Berdyaev, Old Testament, philosophers, psychology, Russians, surprise, technology, wonder}

Cultivating Creativity in the Chatbot Age

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 1, 2026

Computational Sciences, Technology

9}

if we reach for the Google search or the AI chatbot too quickly, we cede our superpower to a machine. Read More ›

Close Up Vintage Royal Standard Typewriter with Paper and Books Still Life

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 20, 2026

Categories
Arts
Ethics
Technology
Tagged
, artificial inteligence, books, chatbots, Claude, community, computers, Counterpoint Press, dependence, ecological health, economic justice, electricity, Energy, energy consumption, environment, family, Harper’s Magazine, land, machines, natural resources, nature, peace, political honesty, pollution, prosocial intentions, relationships, Tanya Berry, technology, thinking, typewriter, water usage, Wendell Berry, work}

Learning about Technology, and Relationships, from Wendell Berry

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 20, 2026

Arts, Ethics, Technology

10}

Berry describes the beautiful working relationship he had with his wife, Tanya. She typed his work on a Royal standard typewriter. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 30, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academic publishers, books, C. W. Howell, creationism, Designer Science, Designer Science (series), Discovery Institute, Douglas Groothuis, Dover School District, evolution, intelligent design, John West, Michael Behe, New York University Press, Ronald Numbers}

Positive and Near-Positive Aspects of Designer Science

_{Casey Luskin
August 30, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

In C. W. Howell’s mind, intelligent design is still recovering from the Dover trial, and if there’s evidence to the contrary, he doesn’t want to see it. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, books, Brian Miller, C. W. Howell, conservatism, Delphic oracle, Designer Science, Designer Science (series), evolution, God and Evolution, history, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Jay Richards, journalists, lockdowns, Logan Gage, Michael Behe, Michael Chabarek, news angle, news hook, NYU Press, opinions writers, scientism, skepticism, Thomism, thought crime, Tom Bethell, vaccine mandates, William Dembski}

Is Intelligent Design the Root of All Science Skepticism?

_{Casey Luskin
August 28, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

As author C. W. Howell puts it, various ID proponents have sometimes committed the thought crime of “doubting the science consensus outside evolution." Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 26, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, ACLU, Big Bang, biochemists, Biology and Philosophy, books, C. W. Howell, David E. Levin, Del Ratzsch, Designer Science, Designer Science (series), EWTN, First Amendment Law Review, inaccuracies, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, Jerry Coyne, John Maddox, Judge John E. Jones, judges, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Mary Katherine Hackney, media, Michael Behe, National Catholic Reporter, New York University Press, North Carolina Law Review, plagiarism, publishers, quotations, Reports of the National Center for Science Education, Roman Catholicism, Skeptical Inquirer, Steve Fuller, The Design Inference, University of Warwick, Wikipedia, William Dembski}

NYU Press Book Makes Fake Behe Quote a Linchpin of Its Case Against Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
August 26, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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It’s quite a chain of errors, from the ACLU to Judge Jones to C. W. Howell. Each makes it worse than the one before. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 31, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, Amazon, Anthropic, artificial inteligence, Ben Mann, Big Tech, books, booksellers, chatbots, ChatGPT, Claude, copyright, ISBNdb, Kindle, knowledge, large language models, licensing, LLMs, Peter Biles, Project Panama, technicians, techno-utopianism, technological view, technology, wisdom}

It’s Time to Buy Old Books Before AI Destroys Them

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 31, 2026

Computational Sciences, Technology

5}

This scheme is the brain child of technicians, people who lead tech companies and tech labs who are wholly committed to a technological view of the world. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
July 31, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Linguistics
Tagged
, 404 Media, AI slop, Anthropic, artificial intelligence, books, bots, creativity, Frank Landymore, Futurism, ISBNdb, language, large language models, lawsuits, literature, pirating, rare books, technology, Ted Gioia, writing}

Gutting Old Books to Feed AI: What Could Go Wrong?

_{Peter Biles
July 31, 2026

Computational Sciences, Linguistics

2}

The question is: Who wins? Maybe we should start buying up all the old books before the bots get to them. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 18, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, act of nature, atheist scientists, books, brains, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, free will, free will deniers, human dignity, human soul, humor, Jerry Coyne, meatware, Michael Egnor, morality, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, Robert Sapolsky, royalty checks, Sam Harris, The Atheist Press}

Michael Egnor: Three Atheist Scientists Walk into a Book

_{David Klinghoffer
June 18, 2026

Ethics, Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

2}

In the absence of free will, “morality” can make no claims about anything. It's only an illusion projected by the meatware of our brains. Read More ›

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Author
George Montañez

Date
June 1, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, alphabet, books, bookshelves, Claude, fair coin, fiction, Hebrew, hexagons, implausible, implossibility, implossible, impossible, intelligent design, Jorge Luis Borges, letters, library, Monty Python, peer-reviewed literature, probability, punctuation, spaces, The Library of Babel, universe, Vindications, World Cup, zero}

On Implossibility (No, Spell-Check Didn’t Fail Me)

_{George Montañez
June 1, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Origin of Life

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What is the probability of forming a book with at least one hundred words in a row, if we are sampling from the Hebrew alphabet? Read More ›