1. Put a Little Science in Your Life
(Science/General)

...t, a book I'd written had become a kind of lifeline. As the book is about science — one that traces physicists' search for nature's deepest laws — the soldier's letter migh...

2. Scientists Know Better Than You--Even When They're Wrong
(Science/General)

...ll living among the chimps, Collins, a professor at Cardiff University in Wales, has spent 30 years observing physicists who study gravitational wave detection—the search for faint ripples in th...

3. The Great Afterlife Debate: Michael Shermer v. Deepak Chopra
(Religion/General)

...mise that each of us is imbedded in the field. An intriguing proof of this was provided by a machine built by physicists at Stanford called a SQUID, or superconducting quantum interference device. It&...

4. Why (Almost All) Cosmologists are Atheists
(Religion/Atheism)

... actually didn't exist, or whether we just hadn't yet been clever enough to discover it. For example, physicists have tried for most of the last century to invent a theory which described grav...

5. Devolution
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

..., he focussed on so-called No Free Lunch, or N.F.L., theorems, which were derived in the late nineties by the physicists David H. Wolpert and William G. Macready. These theorems relate to the efficien...