Hemant asks, Dawkins and Dennett say “yes.” I personally think this is kind of unfortunate. Evolution isn’t as fundamental to the scientific picture of the world as the idea of fundamental physics: that a small combination of principles, like Newton’s Laws + Maxwell’s Field Theory + Quantum Mechanics, could explain everything that happens on Earth. [...]
Category Archives: Science Sunday
Focusing brain activity
Posted by Chris Hallquist on August 4, 2008
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If were ten years older, i.e. old enough to be self-supporting with a little left over to invest, I’d be buying biotech. Computers seem to have reached a plateau for most practical purposes–oh, they’ll continue to get a lot shinier in a general way, and increased processing power could help with a few things like [...]
Computer day in chemistry class
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 28, 2008
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This is a Science Sunday post, and a follow up to last week’s. But, after thinking awhile about how to talk about what I wanted to talk about, I decided a somewhat different approach than I’d normally use for writing about science. Here it goes. Been nearly a year since I’ve taken any chemistry class. [...]
Sunday on a Monday: the hydrogen molecule
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 21, 2008
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>>>This is a Science Sunday post, delayed for a day due to unforseen circumstances. I found myself a little short of time Sunday, and decided to delay for a day rather than hastily whipping up something crappy.<<< Probably, at some point in your life you’ve seen someone take a long stick with a flame on [...]
Science Sunday: treatment and enhancement
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 13, 2008
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Last spring, I took a one-credit seminar in which each week, a different faculty member working on a neuroscience-related topic would come in and give a presentation on their research. One of the ones that stuck in my mind most was that of Louis Populin, who talked about the effects of Ritalin. Specifically, he talked [...]