Fisticuffs have broken out in The Guardian, a British newspaper, between two intellectual big shots, philosopher John Gray and psychologist Steven Pinker.
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Philosopher Daniel Dennett once asked: Would you rather be remembered for being right about something, or for being “original and provocative?”
Years ago I was blathering to a science-writing class at Columbia Journalism School about the complexities of covering psychiatric drugs when a student raised his hand.
Edward Wilson has earned the right to title his latest book The Meaning of Human Existence, which coming from almost any other author would sound laughably grandiose.
My last column outlined points I made in a February 18 debate at Stevens about religion and science. My “opponent,” Oxford mathematician John Lennox, a Christian, sent me the following response, which was originally published on my Scientific American blog, “Cross-check,” in a slightly longer form.
Last week I “debated” the question above in a Stevens event sponsored by the Christian group Veritas. My “opponent” was John Lennox, a mathematician and Christian.
Americans are flocking to a film that celebrates a soldier who killed lots of people during the U.S. war in Iraq.
U.S. coalition forces killed at least 1,201 children In Iraq between 2003 and 2011. And that brings me to American Sniper, whose real-life “hero,” Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, was a child killer.
I’ve been pondering my profession a lot lately, because of the launch of a science communication programhere at Stevens, which is closely allied with a program in science, technology and society (STS).
On Martin Luther King Day, I searched online for commentary by King on science and discovered his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, in which he dwelled on the gap between our scientific and moral progress.