Browsing: Philosophy

Henri Bergson’s debate with Albert Einstein reached and swayed the 1921 Nobel committee.

Science can’t tell us whether science explains everything.

Why ethical objections to interfering with nature are too late.

An argument for a new definition of color.

This classic Facts So Romantic post originally ran in July, 2013. On July 4, 1776, representatives of 13 colonies on the eastern shores of North America signed a Declaration of Independence from England. Winning independence was still a bloody war ahead, an unlikely outcome. Declaring independence was rashness, potentially carrying a death sentence for treason. Not, perhaps, what you […]

More than 90 percent of people err on this test. Will you?

How Julian Jaynes’ famous 1970s theory is faring in the neuroscience age.

Thinking of nucleobases as a long sequence of letters may contribute to the illusion that DNA is a language.Neil Palmer / CIAT via Flickr When we talk about genes, we often use expressions inherited from a few influential geneticists and evolutionary biologists, including Francis Crick, James Watson, and Richard Dawkins. These expressions depict DNA as […]

We can experience nothingness, but does it actually exist?

A child asks, and war answers.