Thursday, November 21, 2024

Scientific productivity is declining

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String Theory A team of Chinese and American researchers published on arXiv an article in September 2024 summarizing their study of the de...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Was Teilhard de Chardin persecuted for defending evolution?

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin In a previous post I have mentioned some myths related to the persecution of scientists as a result of their...
Thursday, November 7, 2024

Successes and failures in biological and environmental conservation

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Usually, when the media talk about environmental conservation and endangered species, the news they give is almost always negative: Everyth...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Boethius, time and eternity

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Medieval manuscript of Consolation of Philosophy 1,500 years have passed since the death of Boethius, but the event has gone unnoticed. A c...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Truth versus usefulness

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Alvin Plantinga As I said in a previous post , natural selection is the statistical observation that, in general, individuals better adapte...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Is research on LLM AI slowing down?

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John McCarthy It looks like the fate of the field of computer technology, wrongly called artificial intelligence , is to alternate between ...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

The kingdom of lies

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Abraham Lincoln   Abraham Lincoln is credited with having said this: You can deceive some people all the time. You can deceive everybody ...