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Small Wonders: Scientists Reveal the Secrets of Amazing Little Insects and Crustaceans

It often seems that the closer you need to look, the greater the wonder. It’s as if someone set it there to hide, waiting for us. Read More ›
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Photo: A bus for transporting “patients,” Hartheim Euthanasia Centre, where Nazis gassed 30,000 victims, via Wikimedia Commons.

Were Nazis More Tolerant of Down Syndrome than Some European Countries Today?

Richard Dawkins lashed out at Pope Francis for the latter’s comparing modern eugenic efforts to Nazi precedents that sought to “create a pure race.” Read More ›
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Image: Thomas Jefferson, by Rembrandt Peale [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

At the Foundations of Science: Respect and Seeking to Understand

I've been reading the correspondence of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams — with its interesting argument by Jefferson for design in nature as a scientific inference. Read More ›

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