I’ve been reading the animal behavior literature for a few decades now. There is some excellent work by dozens of researchers exploring how animals behave and learn and remember and Continue Reading →
If you wiki the term “concept”, you can read for 1/2 hour on the different attempts at definitions of what a concept is: an idea, a mental representation, an abstraction… Continue Reading →
Kids explore, Kids build, Kids figure out how stuff “works”. It’s built-in, innate. Nobody teaches them to zoom across the living room floor to get into…everything. And then start touching, Continue Reading →
Wounded Bull and Ice Age hunter with atl-atl (spear-thrower). From nearly 40,000 years ago to almost 10,000 BC, all across southern Europe in over 400 caves and rockshelters, Paleolithic Cave Continue Reading →
We are a recalcitrant species. Stubbornness, when manifested as stick-to-it-iveness, is a hallmark of our very human tenacity and cleverness to adapt to almost any environment on earth. In the Continue Reading →
Bill Nye on evolution, DNA, science investigation, volcanoes, extraordinary claims, precision measurement, lunar eclipses…you name it. I NEVER saw an episode of Bill Nye the Science Guy when it aired Continue Reading →
Here’s two recent TED talks from scientists who demonstrate the daily use of evolutionary theory, the likes of which goes on all over the world, undertaken by millions of scientists Continue Reading →
Discover Magazine’s Top 100 Science Stories of 2015 include 19 advances in evolutionary discoveries in the fields of paleoanthropology, paleontology, comparative genomics and another 20 stories which build upon and Continue Reading →
Dinosaurs and humans coexisted, the earth can’t be more than 6-10,000 years old. You must believe in an extreme, wholly absurd interpretation of the Genesis account in the Bible. How Continue Reading →
In the late 1800’s some philosophers were absolutely certain we would never know the composition of the stars, we could never go there and sample them so it was utterly Continue Reading →
