I am so sensitive, I cry frequently. I am so soft, I cannot kill a cockroach. But very few things boil my blood like hoaxes and harmful conspiracy theories. It can take days to write all the points to refute one, yet the burden of proof is not on the one spreading such claims, but…
Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life. What Could Go Wrong? – The New York Times
In experiments on pig organs, scientists at Yale made a discovery that could someday challenge our understanding of what it means to die. — Read on http://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/magazine/dead-pig-brains-reanimation.html
Melting glacier reveals astonishingly resilient frozen moss – The Washington Post
In Earth’s icy fringes, bacteria, moss and nematodes are bearing life anew. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/science/ancient-life-awakens-amid-thawing-ice-caps-and-permafrost/2019/07/05/335281f8-7108-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html
Drink a Pint, Waste Less Food – The New York Times
A brewery in Manchester, England, has been using discarded breakfast cereal to make beer in a project intended to address the issue of waste. — Read on http://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/business/media/beer-cereal-food-waste.html
The biggest Arctic expedition ever will spend a year in sea ice studying climate change – Washington Post
Hundreds of researchers will spend a year in the fastest-warming place on the planet to understand the consequences of climate change. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/science/arctic-sea-ice-expedition-to-study-climate-change/
The Eclipse That Made Einstein Famous – The New York Times
Before 1919, cosmology was as subjective as art history. A solar eclipse, and a patent clerk’s equations, changed everything. — Read on http://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/science/solar-eclipse-einstein-physics.html
A Billion-Year-Old Fungus May Hold Clues to Life’s Arrival on Land – The New York Times
A cache of microscopic fossils from the Arctic hints that fungi evolved long before plants. — Read on http://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/science/fungi-fossils-plants.html
The Importance of Sleep
A while back my brother was mentioning that one of his friends slept for only a few hours a night, and she didn’t understand the importance of sleep or how our body’s cellular clock works. Around that time I was doing some readings on the circadian rhythm, so figured to write a blog about the…
Cambridge Analytica and the Hacking of Free Will
Stephen Hawking had written in his book The Grand Design that if you give him enough time and enough computer speed (both physically impossible), he can predict all of human behavior based on our molecular information. I think we have some free will, and many things that will happen defend on chance which cannot be…
Standing up for Science
Science doesn't have a liberal or conservative bias. Standing up for science means standing up for the scientific method and rationality in all spheres of life.
The Philosopher-Scientist 