Charles Darwin’s Birthday; Obama’s Age of Reason; The Tunnel at the End of the Light

Consider this a more substantive follow-up to my previous post. There is much self-congratulation going on in the scientific community these days. Just after CNN dealt a potential death blow to the field, Obama’s eerily populist inaugural speech proclaimed the coming omnipotence of “science,” using the positively monarchical language of putting it in its “rightful [...]

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Three Portraits of Evolution; or, Who Says Evolution Doesn’t Lead to Nihilism?

The evolution of the American economy: The evolution of the temperature of the Earth: The evolution of Charles Darwin’s body:

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