18Oct 2026 by Post

Choose Your Own Doomsday: Select from These Alarming Options, Scientists Say

Annihilation, Antarctica, apocalypses, Artificial Intelligence, Big Tech, cloning, Computational Sciences, computer simulations, COSM 2026, Daily Mail, doomsday, Elon Musk, Geology, humans, Kevin Hunt, longtermism, Michael Marshall, minds, Mouth of Hell, Nicaragua, Nick Bostrom, Nottingham Trent University, planets, Skeptic Magazine, space, sun, Technology, The Conversation, The Shimmer, thought experiment, Volcán Masaya, Wiliam Hunter
In one scenario based on a sci-fi movie, something called "The Shimmer is interfering with the fundamental patterns of life, redefining evolutionary code." Source
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09Jul 2026 by Post

Re-evaluating Lamarck’s Contribution to Evolutionary Thought

adaptations, biology, conscious purposiveness, determinism, Edmund Ware Sinnott, environment, epigenetics, Eva Jablonka, Evolution, Evolution: The History of an Idea, freedom, George Levine, Georges Cuvier, history, history of science, homeostasis, inheritance, instinctive regulation, J. Scott Turner, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jerry Coyne, Jessica Riskin, Lamarckism, Laurent Larson, Marion Lamb, Motivation, neo-Darwinian synthesis, personality, Peter J. Bowler, Purpose and Desire, regeneration, Skeptic Magazine, teleology, The Power of Life, Yale University
The rehabilitation of Lamarck and the important work of scholars of the past (i.e., Sinnott) and present (i.e., Turner) suggest an interesting conclusion. Source
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20Feb 2025 by Post

Faith, Reason, and the Search for Truth: Stephen Meyer and Michael Shermer

Brian Keating, Bryan Callen, complex life, consciousness, Energy, Faith & Science, faith and science, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, mathematics, matter, Michael Shermer, mind, origin of life, Podcast, Skeptic Magazine, skepticism, Stephen Meyer, The Bryan Callen Show, truth, UC San Diego, universe
Dr. Meyer calls math mind-independent. We discover it, we don’t invent it. And it’s conceptual, not a physical material thing. Why is that Important? Source
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