Occam’s Razor in the Age of String Theory: When Simplicity Fails in Theoretical Physics
Abstract Occam’s Razor — the principle that entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity —…
Gould’s Spandrels vs. Collins’s Genome: The Hidden Long Island Thread in Evolution’s Most Consequential Modern Debate
Stephen Jay Gould argued much of biological form is architectural accident. Francis Collins argued the genome sings of a moral lawgiver. Cold Spring Harbor’s DNA runs through both.
The Confession of Light: What Gravitational Waves Force Us to Admit About the Fabric of Reality
On September 14, 2015, LIGO detected a chirp lasting a fifth of a second. A century of theorizing became unbearable certainty. What did it cost the people who heard it?
Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett — The Book That Gave Darwin the Last Word on Free Will
Daniel Dennett’s Freedom Evolves argues that free will didn’t fall apart under Darwin — it was built by him. A review of one of the most important philosophy books of the last 25 years.
Francis Collins Builds the Human Genome; Francis Collins Builds an Altar: The Debate His Own Colleagues Refused to Have in Public and What Happened When Jerry Coyne Finally Did
Francis Collins sequenced the human genome and then said it pointed to God. Jerry Coyne spent years publicly dismantling that claim. Here’s what the debate actually showed — and didn’t.
New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind — Noam Chomsky
Every decade or so, a book arrives that doesn’t just add to a conversation —…
