Were Dinosaurs Warm Blooded?
During the 1990’s there was a lot of discussion (yelling?) over the question of whether or not Dinosaurs were endothermic, that is, warm blooded. In the regular media there is still a pretty solid...
View ArticleDon't Call Me Rational!
The ultimate cause of human behavior is the mind. The mind, an emergent property from the workings of collections of neurons, hormones, proteins, and other biochemical agents, controls everything every...
View ArticleSlime-Bag Dinosaur: What Science Is, What It Isn’t
Carl Zimmer discusses his piece in Science. It’s about the 2005 discovery of potential blood vessels from none other than T-Rex. The trouble is that now there are a few scientists who aren’t all that...
View ArticleAltruism Is The Best Defense
This is a review of a recent article, cooperation in Defense against a predator, in the Journal of Theoretical Biology by Jozsef Garay of the Research Group of Theoretical Biology and Ecology of...
View ArticleDid Jared Diamond Lie?
Two New Guinea men, Henep Isum Mandingo and Hup Daniel Wemp, have filed a $10 million defamation suit against the New Yorker and Jared Diamond for a story the New Yorker printed called “Annals of...
View ArticleThe Return Of Karl Popper: Is Social Science Really Different Than Natural...
Social Scientist have contended for much of the last century that we cannot approach the study of human behavior with the same tools that we would use to study the natural world. This is hogwash. And...
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