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“Have humans evolved beyond nature – and do we even need it?” asked a recent article on a popular portal. The real-life answer arrived few weeks later, in the form of the global Covid-19 pandemic. […]
“Have humans evolved beyond nature – and do we even need it?” asked a recent article on a popular portal. The real-life answer arrived few weeks later, in the form of the global Covid-19 pandemic. […]
An interview with Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe Conducted by Dr Predrag Slijepcevic, Brunel University London Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe is best known for his work on the modern version of the panspermia theory – life in the […]
Published in the December 2019/January 2020 issue of Philosophy Now A little-known magazine, Bioastronomic News, published, in one of its 1995 issues, a memorable debate between two famous scientists. The echo of the debate still […]
Published in the August/September 2019 issue of the Philosophy Now magazine The boundaries between the parts and the whole are almost non-existent on the canvases of the Renaissance painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593). Arcimboldo composed portraits […]
In the philosophy of science there is a segment, not so familiar, but with sufficient identity that it deserves the name: evolutionary epistemology (EE). One of the goals of EE is to explain how biological […]
We suffer from the feeling of cosmic loneliness. Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, summed up our geeky nature by asking a simple question: Where is everybody? All predictions […]
Dedicated to Lynn Margulis (1938-2011) an epitome of a rebel Lynn at Boston University c. 1980; Boston University Archives (courtesy of Dorion Sagan) The exuberant rebellion of youth against all sorts of conformity, ordinarily […]
Is the man technically the most intelligent species on the planet? Judging by our technologies, from the Internet through building skills to the military industry, medicine and artificial intelligence, there is no doubt that Homo […]
Originally published on The Conversation 4th August 2017. Republished on: IFL Science Phys.org Netzpiloten Inkl InnerSelf News Republic Highlighted and commented on: Usbek & Rica French magazine that explores future: “An original and dizzy view of […]
Originally published on The Conversation 7th November 2016. Republished on: Phys.org Enca.com If you put all humans living on the planet into an imaginary tin like sardines, the tin would be 2km long, wide and […]
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