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Thanks to Our Screens, Heading Toward a Post-Literate Culture?

Whatever one’s opinions regarding solutions for declining literacy rates, people can always start to brew change in their own lives and communities. Read More ›
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For Suicide, Disguised “Public Health” Policies Aren’t the Solution

The authors even suggest regulations controlling the manufacture of ceiling fans because some people have used the mechanisms to hang themselves. Read More ›
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Is the Panda’s Thumb Suboptimal?

The basic argument is that “[o]dd arrangements and funny solutions” point to evolution whereas “ideal design” points to a “sensible God.” Read More ›
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Science for Insight or Science for Power?

What are the core purposes of science and math? Evaluating the idea of "knowledge as power" in the computer age. Read More ›
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Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology

Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia. Read More ›
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John Lennox: What (Not) to Expect of Artificial Intelligence in 2084

A key question as we move toward this future, says Lennox, is what does it mean to be human? Read More ›
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Robert J. Marks: Coronavirus and the “Primacy of Information”

This is the kind of insight that halts you in your tracks: “Human biology is so finely tuned that less than a kilobyte of information can stop the world.” Read More ›
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Herd Immunity, Not Herd Mentality

The “field of public health” is complicit in the worst episode of scientific malfeasance in the 21st century. Read More ›

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