The extreme improbability of the “very perfectly precise” conditions needed for a sustainable universe capable of sustaining life within it was calculated by Oxford mathematician-physicist Roger Penrose in 1989. The number that Penrose calculated with respect to the conditions necessary for sustaining life is astronomical. At the beginning of his book, Science at the Doorstep […]
We recently looked at the amazing power of global warming to alter time itself. That rather dubious claim raised a number of eyebrows among our readers for obvious reasons. Now the subject of time is making headlines again for a different reason. It’s being claimed that time passes differently on the moon, with a day […]
There was a time, not so long ago, when science was perceived to be the enemy of religion or, to put the matter the other way round, that religion was perceived to be the enemy of science. The popular perception was that a choice had to be made. Those who “followed the science” must refuse […]
In this line of work, we frequently have occasion to make use of articles from a variety of scientific journals when researching topics of interest. One of my favorite sources over the years has been the journal Nature, which covers a wide variety of science topics. Science journals can be of value, at least in […]
When the James Webb Space Telescope was first launched, the scientific community knew that it was going to be a Very Big Deal. The instrument would allow us to peer further than ever across the depths of space (and backward in time) and do so across multiple bands of light. The JWST has delivered on […]
Like the Greek tragic heroes of Oedipus and Prometheus, Oppenheimer used his almost superhuman intellect and ability to achieve something that led not only to his own suffering, but also to the suffering of others. Americans today would do well to heed the lessons passed down from the Greek tragedians about the reckless and stubborn […]
Note: Republished from February 21. I’ve written before that Woke Will Eat Itself, but I didn’t mean it literally. Now it appears that progressives at the New Scientist have decided to promote the idea of becoming fine young cannibals* as a way to deconstruct Western civilization and counter colonialism. What this argument has to do […]
I’ve written before that Woke Will Eat Itself, but I didn’t mean it literally. Now it appears that progressives at the New Scientist have decided to promote the idea of becoming fine young cannibals* as a way to deconstruct Western civilization and counter colonialism. What this argument has to do with science is anyone’s guess […]
By the early decades of the twentieth century, at the very moment when physicists were dismantling formerly irrefutable truths about nature and the universe, science had become the foundation of the American faith in stability, order, and progress. Darwinian science had confirmed that the advent of the United States marked the apex of human evolution. […]
If you read the title of this article and found yourself scratching your head and wondering what “racial chemistry” might be, don’t worry. You’re not alone. It makes about as much sense as “beef-based veganism.” (And even that’s closer to reality because people have been making “vegan beef” out of plants for a while now.) […]
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