One of the most controversial and stimulating ideas to surface in scientific circles in the last twenty years has been…
After earning a Ph.D. from Caltech at age 20, Stephen Wolfram founded the corporation that produces Mathematica, the world’s leading…
In the early twentieth century — during the Scopes Trial, for instance — evolution was the new theory…
PBS is about to rebroadcast its eight-hour series, “Evolution.” When the series first aired last year, I told…
Do you think about microbes very much? — probably not. Most people pay attention to life’s smallest creatures only when…
There’s an old adage that says, “In a time of war, truth is the first casualty.” Well, there’s an…
What would Darwin have said about the growing intelligent design controversy in Ohio? We can’t ask him, of course. He’s…
Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century, loved to read detective stories. In fact, he told…
“I never think I have hit hard,” said the great 18th century English writer Samuel Johnson, “unless it rebounds.” Dr.…
