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click beetle
Photo: A click beetle, by Sarefo, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

New Engineering Ideas from Biology

The 2023 Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, organized by the CSC's Engineering Research Group, is set for June 1-3 in Denton, Texas. Read More ›
baby
Photo credit: Christian Bowen, via Unsplash.

Pro-Abortion Absolutism and Its Consequences

Abortion absolutism is a radical departure from the once well-accepted idea that nascent human beings — at least at some level — deserve respect and protection. Read More ›
farmer Sri Lanka
Photo credit: Kannan Arunasalam, IWMI, via Flickr (cropped).

Stifling Food Production to “Save the Planet”

After Sri Lanka’s government restricted non-organic fertilizer use, the economy and government collapsed. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Kuebi = Armin Kübelbeck [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

Canadian Bill to Allow Euthanasia of Dementia Patients

If the patient resists, the killing is not supposed to take place. Right. As though the person would know what was happening. Read More ›
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Bioethicist: Let Doctors Kill the Healthy by Harvesting Organs

At first, this proposed killing license was supposed to be limited to patients on the verge of death or the permanently unconscious. Read More ›
March for Science
Photo: March for Science, by Vlad Tchompalov via Unsplash.

Don’t Forget Scientific Fraud

“I’ve done the research. I have the facts.” Thus said two people to me on successive days over the weekend, in almost identical words. Read More ›
gender
Photo credit: Delia Giandeini on Unsplash.

Delaying Puberty, or Destroying It?

For children with gender dysphoria, blocking puberty is not just buying time. It is more like a point of no return. Read More ›
pituitary gland
Photo: Pituitary gland, by Athikhun.suw, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

On Delaying Puberty

The pituitary gland produces hormones that stimulate the ovaries in girls and the testicles in boys. Read More ›
water lily
Photo: A water lily, Hyderabad, India, by Premalatha Kalagara / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

In Defiance of Evolution, Hierarchical Design Is Ubiquitous in Biology

Design with interdependent layers presents a challenge to neo-Darwinism. Natural selection is oblivious to anything but an immediate beneficial variation. Read More ›

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