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tritonstation.com
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| | | | | Given recent developments in the long-running hunt for dark matter and the difficulty interpreting what this means, it seems like a good juncture to re-up* this: The history of science is a decision tree. Vertices appear where we must take one or another branching. Sometimes, we take the wrong road for the right reasons. A... | |
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scottaaronson.blog
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| | | | | My good friend Sean Carroll took a lot of flak recently for answering this year's Edge question, "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?," with "Falsifiability", and for using string theory and the multiverse as examples of why science needs to break out of its narrow Popperian cage. For more, seethis blog post of Sean's,... | |
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guscost.com
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| | | | | Here we are part-way through 2020, the year humanity started a war against the common cold, and lost. "How DARE you, it's much worse than the flu!" someone howls. Yes, sure, maybe in a certain context. It's more contagious than a flu, it's new so there is no vaccine, and it will lead to a... | |
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imotiv8.uk
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| | | Philosophy of Biology Philosophy of Biology The growth of philosophical interest in biology over the past fifty years reflects the increasing prominence of the biological sciences in the same period. There is now an extensive literature on many different biological topics, and it would be impossible to summarize this body of work in this single [...] | ||
