Charles Robert Darwin

Reblogged from Earthpages.ca:

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-82) was an English naturalist whose The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection of 1859 proposed a view of evolution in which "natural selection" determines which species survive and which perish.

In opposition to Larmarck, Darwin believed that evolutionary changes were the result of mutations.¹ New species that happened to survive in physical environments (which also changed) replaced those species that did not.

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During the early 90s I remember getting some Christian fundamentalist junk mail with the tag... "Don't Let Darwin Make a Monkey Out Of You!" As silly and harmful as any kind of fundamentalism can be, these people did have a point. Science has become the new religion, and few realize how the unavoidably biased interpretation of experimental results can shape our worldview.

Video – Two teenagers put lego man into space

Latest incarnation of Asimo

Is it just me, or is there something mildly unsettling about this?

How best to contact me about Dr. Spencer Wells’ theory

My latest #BubbleTweet –> How to contact me about Dr. Spencer Wells and his theory… (see previous bubbletweet) http://bbltwt.com/f90yg—
Michael Clark, Ph.D (@earthpages) January 11, 2011

See me, hear me… talking about Dr. Spencer Wells’ evolutionary theory

My latest #BubbleTweet –> Calling on scientists to help me out with Dr. Spencer Wells\' theory of evolution http://bbltwt.com/8sw5m—
Michael Clark, Ph.D (@earthpages) January 11, 2011

brain-universe-parallel

brain-universe-parallel, originally uploaded by Cecilia Fletcher.

I thought this was sort of interesting.

and the brainscan says…

and the brainscan says…, originally uploaded by earthpages.

Are we being mislead by color enhanced images just as advertisers distort graph results with an unrepresentative scale? This should settle the score, once and for all!

The invisible man?

Invisible Man Living Statue, Thames South Bank, London by Jim Linwood

Remember H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man?

No?

Well how about Star Trek‘s Romulan cloaking device?

The key here is i-n-v-i-s-i-b-i-l-i-t-y and scientists are now saying it may become fact instead of fiction in the not too distant future.

It all has something to do with bending light waves around objects.

Don’t believe me?

Check out this article in Discover:

http://tr.im/iTbh

(from a tweet by JayOatway)

Is an iPod part of your mind?

If you had an iPod, would it be part of your mind? That’s one of the odder, but surprisingly most relevant, questions being discussed here in Seoul at the World Congress of Philosophy.

» http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/03/philosophy.ipod?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews

That’s from an interesting article that I stumbled upon at another equally interesting blog » http://milindasquestions.com/

Asimo – Honda’s answer to the Cylon monopoly…