The Robert Taft Club is hosting a panel discussion tonight on the society, politics, and the biological sciences with Charles Murray (co-author of The Bell Curve), Tom Bethell (author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science and a senior editor of the American Spectator), John Derbyshire (of National Review), Ron Bailey (Reason’s science correspondent).
The event [...]
Larry Arnhart’s blog is worth a link.
I’m probably not exactly a Darwinian conservative myself — my secret wish is to rehabilitate Lamarck — but plainly the assault on Darwin lately is ideological rather than scientific and must be resisted.
Addendum: Actually there’s quite a lot wrong with Arnhart’s specific ideas about Darwinian conservatism, including this, “Darwinian [...]
“Chinese, English Spakers Do Math Differently.” A vindication of polylogism? Not exactly, but interesting nonetheless.
Go ahead, let 'em eat your brain — you probably don't need it.
(The link takes you to a rather dubious looking website reporting the strange case of a man whose gray matter was almost entirely crowded out by cerebrospinal fluid — he was hydrocephalic — yet who not only was still able to function normal, [...]
Apparently, DDT is good with gin.
Nicholas Wade's NYT piece today on regeneration tells me something — well, more than one thing — I didn't know, including this: "Mammals, too, can renew damaged parts of their body. All can regenerate the liver."
I'm delighted to hear it, and so is my bartender.
Write your own joke to go along with that headline from today’s New York Times.
The article itself isn’t such a laughing matter, though. It’s about evolutionary competition between pregnant women and their in utero children.