Evolution

God and Evolution Walk Into a Bar

My God: It’s Evolution! | Do the Math (ucsd.edu) A Religion of Life | Do the Math (ucsd.edu)

The Gods Must be Crazy, Tales of Hollywood

A Religion of Life | Do the Math (ucsd.edu) We are a story telling species. Stories about “god s” gave selective advantage to groups, who developed greater internal altruism. It rolled the dice in their favor in out group…

The Slow Sinking of HMS Beagle

Motivated science skeptics will say, because it is sporadically colder than normal, and it still occasionally snows in some areas, that by definition there is a massive climate change hoax It is elicited and spread by the conspiracy of a…

Socioeconomic Background and Reward Valence.

How the brain responds to reward is linked to socioeconomic background (medicalxpress.com)

Major Changes or a Bleak Future for Homo sapiens

Mental Health. Coping with the future: notes from Jackson & Jensen’s “An Inconvenient Apocalypse” | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse (energyskeptic.com)

Science and Awe

Wonder at work: the joy of discovery helps scientists flourish (nature.com)

Fungal Communication or the Inference of Information Caused by the Evolved Mammalian Pattern Seeking Propensity?

Mushrooms may ‘talk’ to one another with up to 50 words | Science | AAAS

Deep Time

50 years ago, scientists thought they had found Earth’s oldest rocks (sciencenews.org) Single cell life, on Earth has been in existence for 3.7 billion years 17,000 times longer than the recent faith that creation was 6000 years ago. The…

A Timeline of History

Neo Darwin, an Updated Quote

“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its dissipative powers, having been originally induced into many forms of far from equilibrium dissipative systems; and that, whilst irreversible processes on this planet have produced entropy…