Larry Moran discusses Carl Zimmer’s latest piece for Science on the origin of eukaryotes: This is well-timed since it appears just when I’ve returned from a meeting on this very topic. [Go here if you can’t see the article on the Science website.] One of the things we learned at the meeting is that the… Continue reading
Author: John Farrell
Writer and producer working in Boston.
“Google waits in watch of dishonesty…” I don’t read the Huffington Post, but Barrett Brown’s takedown of William Dembski is one of the best: * In conjunction with his friends at the pro-ID Discovery Institute, Dembski decided to commission a Flash animation ridiculing Judge John Jones, the Bush-appointed churchgoer who, despite being a Bush-appointed churchgoer,… Continue reading
Dan Rayburn says things will get worse before they get better for CDNs. With Limelight reporting earnings last night, it’s now clear that the major players in the CDN space, the vendors that control the vast majority of the market share for video delivery, are all experiencing no growth. Akamai’s M&E business was down and… Continue reading
Thony C. has a great post on whether it even makes sense to ask what role Christians of the Middle Ages had to play in the rise of science: As I wrote in my very first internet blog post on the ideas of Rodney Stark when every single member of society in supposedly a Christian… Continue reading
Sean Carroll makes a lot of sense: My own goal is not really changing people’s minds; it’s understanding the world, getting things right, and having productive conversations. My real concern in the engagement/mockery debate is that people who should be academic/scholarly/intellectual are letting themselves be seduced by the cheap thrills of making fun of people.… Continue reading