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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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| | Here is a working list of species concepts presently in play. I quote "Concepts" above because, for philosophical reasons, I think there is only one concept - "species", and all the rest are conceptions, or definitions, of that concept. I have christened this the Synapormorphic Concept of Species in (Wilkins 2003). More under the fold: A Summary of 26 species concepts
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| | Why most supplements fail: IQ improvement skepticism, Yudkowsky & Bostrom's heuristics, nootropics
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| Matt Strassler [April 12, 2012] It is common that, when reading about the universe or about particle physics, one will come across a phrase that somehow refers to ``matter and energy'', as though they are opposites, or partners, or two sides of a coin, or the two classes out of which everything is made. This