wafflesatnoon.com
The Top Ten Weirdest Things People Believe
16+ min · · Michael Shermer counts down his list of "The Top Ten Weirdest Things People Believe." · Shared by 6, including Mihai Badita
curiosity.com
Is Math a Feature of the Universe or a Feature of ...
· Shared by 5, including Mihai Badita
The New York Times
The Dangers of Pseudoscience
6 min · · The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. Philosophers of science have been preoccupied for a while with what they call the “demarcation… · Shared by 5, including Mihai Badita
Quillette
The Ideological Refusal to Acknowledge Evolved Sex Differences
13+ min · · Boys and girls are not infinitely malleable, socially constructed products of the patriarchy. · Shared by 216, including Steven Pinker, Mihai Badita
environmentalprogress.org
With Nuclear Instead of Renewables, California & Germany Would Already Have 100% Clean Electricity
4 min · · California and Germany could have mostly or completely decarbonized their electricity sectors had their investments in renewables been diverted entirely to new nuclear instead, a new Environmental… · Shared by 6, including Mihai Badita
youtube.com
Richard Dawkins - Science works bitches!
· Richard Dawkins responds to a christian who is critical of the scientific method: "it (science) works... bitches!". Filmed at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford,... · Shared by 13, including Martin Kägi, Mihai Badita
The Economist
Lessons from a fight between economists and historians
4 min · · What the dismal science gets right, and what it misses, about American slavery · Shared by 6, including Mihai Badita
Scientific American
Should We Chill Out about Global Warming?
5 min · · Two “ecomodernists” argue that continued progress in science and other realms will help us overcome environmental problems · Shared by 7, including Mihai Badita
The New Republic
Science Is Not About Certainty
17+ min · · The separation of science and the humanities is relatively new—and detrimental to both. · Shared by 10, including Mihai Badita
The Guardian
'As long as we study life, it will be read': the Selfish Gene turns 40
10 min · · In 1976 Richard Dawkins’s study of evolutionary theory became the first popular science bestseller. How do its ideas stand up today? · Shared by 12, including Mihai Badita, Dr Adam Rutherford
NBC News
Is the Universe Conscious?
7 min · · Some of the world's most renowned scientists are questioning whether the cosmos has an inner life similar to our own. · Shared by 28, including Mihai Badita, Massimiliano Aroffo
Nautilus Magazine
Is Matter Conscious?
13+ min · · The nature of consciousness seems to be unique among scientific puzzles. Not only do neuroscientists have no fundamental explanation… · Shared by 472, including Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Jennifer Hurst, Liv 😷, Jansnet, Tauno, Faik Ersoy, Howard Getson, Peter Sixsmith, Ward Plunet, sircharlsxavier, Miguel Angel Escotet, Mihai Badita, Luminous Kaleidoscope
Aeon+Psyche
How consciousness works. And why we believe in ghosts
14+ min · · Consciousness is the ‘hard problem’, the one that confounds science and philosophy. Has a new theory cracked it? · Shared by 19, including Mihai Badita
Aeon+Psyche
Build-a-brain
13+ min · · We could build an artificial brain that believes itself to be conscious. Does that mean we have solved the hard problem? · Shared by 14, including Mihai Badita, jérémie Flück