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Materialism’s Band-Aid, “Emergence” Is Bad Science

The idea is that some properties of systems emerge only after a certain level of complexity is reached. Read More ›
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Photo: Walter Bradley (center), by Nathan Jacobson.

Remembering Walter Bradley (1943–2025)

I’m going to describe some of my personal encounters with Walter that are not in his biography. These I hope will bring to light the man in a fresh way. Read More ›
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Europa Clipper: The Moon Mission Making Waves

Astrobiologists hope this mission will help answer a couple of big questions in astrobiology. Read More ›
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Embrace the Chaos: How Cells Harness Disorder for Function

In three classes of examples, cells are shown to manipulate chaotic forces toward functional purposes. Read More ›
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Sociovirologists Say Viruses Can Cheat, Cooperate

What does it mean to say that a defective string of genes’s behavior could be self-defeating? Or self-preserving? Where did the “self” come in? Read More ›
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Sleeping and Waking — A Designer’s Gift

Why is sleeping, in which the conscious mind/brain is asleep, categorically more restful and recuperative to the body than merely lying down? Read More ›
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Noise Cancellation: A Remarkable Design Solution in Biology

The principle behind this biological methodology can be extended to every case in biology where an organism needs to discriminate signals from self. Read More ›
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Maura: The Woman Whose Brain Was Stolen and Stored by the Smithsonian 

Maura was brought from the Philippines to the U.S. in 1904 to take part in one of the public displays of indigenous people at the St. Louis World’s Fair. Read More ›
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Does the Scientific Evidence Support Evolutionary Models of Human Origins?

The fossil record shows a break between the australopithecines, supposedly directly ancestral to our genus, and the first humanlike members of the genus. Read More ›
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Photo: Neanderthal Musuem, Germany, by Clemens Vasters, via Flickr (cropped).

Human Origins: All in the Family

If a Neanderthal walked down the street, appropriately dressed, you probably wouldn’t notice. Read More ›

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