Over at the Psychology Today blog, The Scientific Fundamentalist, Satoshi Kanazawa is getting a lot of attention for a really odd argument. The title basically sums it up, “If Barack Obama Is Christian, Michael Jackson Was White.”
Honestly, not much good can follow a title like that, but let’s move on. Kanazawa, an evolutionary [...]
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Synthetic life form accuses God of ‘playing science’
The world’s first artificially created life form has accused God of ‘playing science’ and ‘meddling with things He cannot possibly understand.’
The single celled organism, created by Dr Craig Venter and his team, was said to be ‘outraged’ when it discovered that a supernatural being, not subject to [...]
We thought we were winning the war on bugs, but it seems that perhaps it is the ants who have won:
A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered.
Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to [...]
Prof. Robert Sapolsky talks about the biological roots of religion through schizophrenia (hearing the voice of a god), OCD (ritual), and temporal lobe epilepsy (mystical experiences):
There’s a condensed version of some of these thoughts in Sapolsky’s essay “Belief and Biology.”
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It’s a baby pygmy marmoset, which is the smallest monkey in the world. Adorable!
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A reader sent in the following question:
Are there any economic implications from natural selection? If so, what are they?
I haven’t thought much about this. I assume Michael Shermer talked about this in The Mind of the Market: How Biology and Psychology Shape Our Economic Lives, but I haven’t gotten around to reading it yet.
So what do you think? Are [...]
Watch till the end:
I’m glad these things are small, otherwise we might be in trouble.
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