Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason.

Simon  – I was at a lecture by Christof Koch yesterday on the future of consciousness. I will post more on his ideas later but here is a video you might like.

See also the link for Consciousness Redux.

Here’s an interesting Facebook post from just now by Steve Taylor, “transpersonal psychologist” (and psychology professor at Manchester University).  You may or may not find him slightly out there: I prefer the term “speculative”.

I’ve been doing a lot of reading about evolution over the last few days (for an article I’m writing) and have learned…

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Ah, the People of Science videos. Thanks, Robert. I have seen and enjoyed several of them.

Flavivirus implications are more “frightening” to theists than to atheists; we accept natural selection and its consequences.

Think MMO, means, motives, opportunities. The current crop of theists in America’s government seem determined to reduce the means and opportunities to cope with the consequences.

Science requires both deduction and induction.

One without the other — such as Albert Einstein’s thought experiments, or mathematics only, or theoretical physics — can and has resulted in flawed science and vast waste of taxpayers’ money.

Nice video on Darwin’s work. Inspired me to look up “gemmule” (which is defined differently today), which in turn led me to the similar topic “endospore“… developmental biology concepts not known yet in Darwin’s times.

I simply adore this video and it really is all about how science works and would also inspire anyone who is not afraid to think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yEX_OI0xbQ

Flavivirus research (including Zika), from mid-2016.

Tom, I don’t even see hardball here. Not even a swing, when you’re asked a specific question wrt your view on evidence (e.g. blue-shift).

I think Tom does make a valid point that cosmology has become very dependent on mathematical models and we do have to remember that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I have seen ample empirical evidence in my own working fields of GPS navigation and weather RADAR that supports relativistic and doppler effects but after reading…[Read more]