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Photo: Reagan and Buckley, by Series: Reagan White House Photographs, 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989Collection: White House Photographic Collection, 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Three Memories of William F. Buckley

For Buckley on evolution, see here. I’m enjoying the new bio of him very so far, but am prepared to start joining the critics as I read further. Read More ›
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Photo: RMS Titanic, by Francis Godolphin Osbourne Stuart, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Shades of Titanic — Probing the Wreck of the Unsinkable Enlightenment

Science and reason were supposed to transform the world for the good instead of soaking it in gore. Read More ›
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Blood Viscosity and Freezing Temperatures — A Titanic Problem

Blood viscosity is the technical reason why Jack froze in less than 23 minutes, but icefish can survive for 15 years in water of a freezing temperature. Read More ›
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Without Hemoglobin, How Do Icefish Survive the Cold? By Design

Icefish, aka the family Channichthydiae, survive at 0oC in the Southern Ocean by maintaining blood viscosity at the set point of 3.27 centipoise. Read More ›
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Image source: "Secrets of the Cell," via Discovery Institute.

“Bacteria Are Incredible” — Here Are More Illustrations

Much of our plastic debris accumulates in the oceans where it collects in huge revolving garbage patches on the surface called gyres. Read More ›
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Wesley Smith on Transhumanism — A New Tower of Babel

Wesley has been fighting this fight almost single-handedly, as the media looks on in admiration at attempts to control evolution and usher in a secular New Jerusalem. Read More ›
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In a TED Talk, Here’s the Question You May Not Ask

Riccardo Sabatini is charming. He has the TED style down (who teaches them all to talk that way?), and he deploys some memorable images. Read More ›

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