Dawkins: Science Has Ways of Shutting that Whole Thing Down
A TV interview with Richard Dawkins and Lawence Krauss about a new documentary about them called The Unbelievers. At 3:00 one of the interviewers references a piece from this Sunday’s New York Times...
View ArticleWhy We Ought to Worry about Personal Analytics
Stephen Wolfram, creator of the underrated WolframAlpha, was recently interviewed about his work on personal analytics, that is, gathering data from your daily life and using algorithms to analyze it....
View ArticleWhy Not Everyone Will Become Cyborgs in the Future (And Why You Will)
When futurists talk about the current and coming revolutions in technology they often begin their sentences: “In the future everyone will…” Within that little phrase we find both our hopes and fears...
View ArticlePoythress in World Mag: Last Gasp of Historical Adam?
World Magazine recently posted this article by Vern Poythress regarding the “Historical Adam” controversy of recent years. The structure of the piece is baffling to me. Poythress begins by discussing...
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Science Journalism: You’re Doing It Wrong!
This month I’ve been following a little trickle of a trend in science news which does not get the attention it really deserves. Science research culture is broken, and it seems to have a lot to do with...
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Metrics, Algorithms, and the Promise of Pure Meritocracy
Metrics, analytics, and algorithms hold out hope for a future in which people are no longer judged by their race or gender, but rather by their performance, their “stats.” But what would that kind of...
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Pinker on Scientism: The Two Towers
In this post I respond to Steven Pinker’s latest essay in The New Republic, “Science Is Not Your Enemy.” Pinker appeals to disaffected humanities folk who are defensive about the dominance of science...
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