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If you were searching for a parable about the dangers of tactical absolutism (you know, my-way-or-the-highway type thinking), the rise and fall of cap-and-trade legislation would be a good place to start.

In the months leading up to the passage…

Here is a Cretaceous mystery.

Three different species of dinosaur are found in one filled-in pit. They are well preserved, although the method by which it happened is unknown. It’s not a “whodunit”, but a “what-dunit.”  There are clues as to the case, though. And they can be…

Arrested Development since the Arrest of Socrates

In the 4^th Century BCE, soldier and scholar Xenophon of Athens put to papyrus his arguments contesting charges by the Athenian court that his esteemed mentor had been corrupting the City’s youth with inappropriate religious teachings and an…

Manchester’s industrial economy was growing. The city’s population continued to rise, having more than tripled in the first half of the nineteenth century. Standards of hygiene had  also begun to improve with better understandings of the roots of disease and demands of public health. However,…

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Having ‘proved’ that fossils predating the Cambrian radiation are non-existent, and that all modern animal phyla appeared out of nowhere - in what the narrator describes as a “burst of creativity” - Darwin’s Dilemma the movie, then proceeds to ridicule…

The truth is, we all like to watch dinosaurs fight. That’s a major, if not the primary part of their appeal. Countless films and novels have built on the idea of ferocious primordial combat, and why not? Of all the animals, living or extinct, dinosaurs offer the most spectacular mix of weaponry…

As a result of their recently filed lawsuit against a science education center in California, the creationist organization known as the Discovery Institute made the news this week.  The legal action was undertaken in retaliation to the education center’s refusal to show one of…

The human race has been enslaved by evolutionarily superior organisms. 

In the beginning there was but inorganic matter.  From these lifeless substances came the organics which later gave rise to legion-minded protobionts.  The protobionts in time beget prokaryotic cells, and with this…