If you are anything like me, you were transfixed by last week’s first-ever photographs of an actual black hole. If…
In the tedious task of differentiating self-help philosophy from the “real deal,” one might say that the…
Scientists long ago answered one of modern life’s enduring questions, “Where do humans come from?” Set aside the limitations taught by today’s scientists and the dogmas of your favorite church to consider another perspective. If we want to understand human origins, we must begin…
Where do animals at zoos and other institutions go when they die? The lucky ones will find their…
Danielle Bassett, Eduardo D. Glandt Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, grew up in central Pennsylvania where she and her 10 siblings were homeschooled. Back then, Bassett had aspirations to become a…
WHAT’S A BIGFOOT?
WHAT’S A BIGFOOT?In 1958, “big foot” was a term used to describe large, human-like, footprints. As in “Those are some big footprints.”…
In this blog post I, Ben Wolfe, will be writing about the flat Earth conspiracy theory. I will cover the…
Not to mention that there’s the whole physics and biology issue of how something can be “undead.”
Interestingly, we might already be zombies, when it comes to toxoplasmosis. Although the exact effects might be different for us. There’s indication that a lot of humans are infected and that it can cause some psychological…
Rick Robinson, thank you for your reading and feedback, and I appreciate them both. Speaking of going into why we love it so much, I've got a treat for you, check out The Psychology of Anal Sex for a few thousand words on theat exact subject: https://medium.com/moments-of-passion/the-psychology-of-anal-sex-ef3506f52dd1
ML is not an alternative to science, by any stretch. Indeed, while deep learning is nice, there are still questions about its validity. Moreover, there are limitations to what we can learn from deep learning, without additional tools. Deep learning can help is make some predictions (sort of), but it won’t, at the least, develop new treatments, and so…
Light waves to Schrödinger’s cat, it does not matter if a particular particle’s partiality parts from the…
I am a scientist, a molecular biologist, plant pathologist/physiologist and I really…
I’m surprised this hasn’t been done for years. It makes perfect sense — look at the peak wavelengths at which they will be radiating! Go Wein’s law!
My son received a heart transplant at 2 months old. There is a special place in my heart for transplant science. Thanks for writing this.
