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Cultivating Creativity in the Chatbot Age

if we reach for the Google search or the AI chatbot too quickly, we cede our superpower to a machine. Read More ›
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The Information Enigma and Gratuitous Beauty: In Theaters on April 30

It's intelligent design as you've never seen it before. Find inspiration, and share it with friends and family. Read More ›
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Nature’s Wonder — A Tale of Two Scientists

Charles Darwin described an atrophied sensitivity to “grandeur” that he noted in himself. Read More ›
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Photo: “Tree of Life,” a cave painting from Borneo, Indonesia, by Lhfage at English Wikipedia [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.

There Is No Such Thing as a Fossil Mind

We are free to accept ad hoc evo psych explanations if we wish. Like astrology and palm reading, they make good conversation pieces. Read More ›
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Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, in the Cambridge University Library, by LegesRomanorum via Wikimedia Commons.

Learning Wonder from Denton’s Latest

Around 50 BC Titus Lucretius Carus wrote a long treatise against finding purpose in nature. Read More ›
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Photo: Humpback whale, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation — An Obsession that Smothers Wonder

Perhaps it is awe-inspiring to evolutionary biologists to try to work a puzzle, trying to find how everything is connected by common ancestry.  Read More ›
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Awe at Echolocation? Nah, Convergence Again

The passionate focus on evolutionary relationships in biology papers tends to obscure awe at the wonders in life. Read More ›

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