Daily Archives: December 27, 2015

Deep Insights

From the penetrating mind of actor Samuel Jackson: Jackson says he empathizes with innocent Muslim-Americans who have fallen under the veil of suspicion because a few other people who share their religion have committed atrocities against their countrymen: “When that … Continue reading

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A Fight for the Soul of Science

In “A Fight for the Soul of Science“, Natalie Wolchover provides an overview of contemporary debates in modern physics (aka cosmology): Nowadays, as several philosophers at the workshop said, Popperian falsificationism has been supplanted by Bayesian confirmation theory, or Bayesianism, … Continue reading

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