Tag: Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 2, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Engineering
Technology
Tagged
, __featured1, A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, compact discs, computers, Delft University of Technology, DNA, electronic storage, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, George Gaylord Simpson, gigabytes, Gordon Moore, hard drives, heat-assisted magnetic recording, IBM, information, Kryder’s law, Macintosh, Mark Kryder, megabytes, Michael Denton, Microsoft, molecular calculation, Moore’s law, nanometers, Pan Am, physics, printing, quantum holography, RAMAC, Richard Feynman, Stanford University, terabyte, Thomas Newman, University of Washington, volumetric density}

How Small Became Beautiful: A Brief History of Information Storage

_{William A. Dembski
November 2, 2026

Computational Sciences, Engineering, Technology

18}

For readers whose eyes may be glazing over with all these large exponentials for measuring DNA storage, let me offer an observation from Michael Denton. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 1, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Psychology
Tagged
, Agner Fog, Barbra Streisand, bunny ears, Darwinism, Encyclopaedia Britannica, evolution, Glenn Reynolds, grumpy cat, H. Allen Orr, Journal of Memetics, lawyers, memeplex, memes, memetics, Nature (journal), neurons, New York Post, psychology, Richard Dawkins, Scientific American, Simon Bennett, Stephen Jay Gould, Streisand effect, Susan Blackmore, Technical University of Denmark, The Meme Machine, The Selfish Gene, West Midlands Police}

Decline and Fall of Dawkins’s Meme Concept

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 1, 2026

Evolution, Psychology

5}

The term eventually became a general handle for the manipulation and transmission of images on the internet. Read More ›

A 1940s style American kitchen, green. Generative AI

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Date
November 25, 2025

Categories
Geology
Historical Sciences
Tagged
, climate, earth, Encyclopaedia Britannica, geologists, geology, history, humankind, humans, sediments, Stone Age}

As an Idea, the “Anthropocene” Era Is Dead

_{Science & Culture
November 25, 2025

Geology, Historical Sciences

3}

In a world where pundits regularly accuse us all of being too anthropocentric, the naming of a new geological epoch would enshrine that view forever in science. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 19, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Carl Sagan, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Francis Crick, groupthink, Imperial College London, Leslie Orgel, Live Science, Lynn Margulis, Medium, National Geographic, Occam’s razor, origin of life, protocell, Star Trek, Star Wars, terraforming, Universe Today}

At Present, the Origin of Life Isn’t a Scientific Question; It’s a Political One

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 19, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

Some answers are Correct Groupthink but others will get you Canceled. It’s not clear that the current approach will enable many more insights. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, chicken, Claude Shannon, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Essays on Life Itself, genome, information, intelligent design, James Clerk Maxwell, junk DNA, Levinthal paradox, Life Itself, logos, Michael Levin, nature, Neoplatonism, Peter Tompa, physical world, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, snails, Walter Elsasser, yeast}

A Diffident Revolutionary

_{David Klinghoffer
June 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

6}

In a meeting with colleagues at Discovery Institute in 2024, Richard Sternberg was sketching his thoughts on a whiteboard. Read More ›