3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (556+ words) Panpsychism has often appeared to be a strategy for rescuing materialism: We have minds, but so what? So do electrons! What about it? While Calvo now runs the Minimal Intelligence Lab at the University of Murcia in Spain, he started…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (898+ words) The solution to last week’s Microsofty involves a bit of math, so this week we offer a puzzle that challenges you to think outside the box instead: Landscaper Lou was given 10 apple trees and told to plant them in five…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (428+ words) At Epoch Times, Makai Elías Calles discusses recent findings about plants’ complex ability to perceive and react to their environments: Plants lack neurons, but they still readily communicate, including by relaying danger cues. When a caterpillar bites a plant, it…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (554+ words) At Science and Culture Today, a news item last week focused on a strange state of affairs in evolution studies today: Now along comes a new video from New Scientist instructing us that “The Human Family Tree Has No Beginning....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (589+ words) This article by Wesley J. Smith is republished from Science and Culture Today. Originally crossposted from National Review. The nature rights movement continues to advance into respectability against woefully insufficient resistance. Too many people don’t take the threat seriously because they…...