Using Unnatural Selection to Save Coral Reefs
By Elizabeth Kolbert The New Yorker In 2013, a foundation run by Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen announced a contest called the Ocean Challenge. Researchers were asked for plans to counter […]
Tag Archives: Evolution
Super-Intelligent Humans are Coming
By Stephen Hsu Nautilus In Daniel Keyes’ novel Flowers for Algernon, a mentally challenged adult called Charlie Gordon receives an experimental treatment to raise his IQ from 60 to somewhere […]
Our Cognitive Dissonance in Understanding Gender
By Robert Sapolsky Nautilus Somewhere in the middle of the night in a Central African rainforest, a chimpanzee gives birth. Soon after, as the sun rises, mother and newborn sit […]
Teaching Doubt in Schools
By Lawrence M. Krauss The New Yorker Last month, Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin and a presumed Presidential candidate, delivered an address at Chatham House, an international-affairs think tank […]
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