Category / Science
The first ever photograph of light as both a particle and wave
Forty-six years of Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance from 1972 to 2018 | PNAS
Science and Non-Science in Liberal Education – The New Atlantis
Natural science, with its standards of experimental rigor, has come to dominate the university, leaving many non-scientific scholars confused about the place of the humanities or social sciences in the academy. But, as Harvey C. Mansfield argues, science remains dependent on non-science, and philosophy remains the cornerstone of any serious education.
Source: Science and Non-Science in Liberal Education – The New Atlantis
EPIC Earth one year time-lapse.m4v – YouTube
Sexuality and Gender — introduction to the New Atlantis report – YouTube
PLEASE Watch “Climate Change – The Facts (by Sir David Attenborough)” on YouTube
My Brain and I – The New Atlantis
Leading neuroscientists believe that we need to junk our everyday understanding of the mind, and that much of philosophy needs to go too. In this essay adapted from his new book ‘The Soul of the World’, Roger Scruton pokes holes in their confidence and proposes another way of understanding who and what we are.
“But suppose that the moral explanation is genuine and sufficient. It would follow that the genetic explanation is trivial. If rational beings are motivated to act in accordance with moral laws regardless of any genetic strategy, then that is sufficient to explain the fact that they do behave in this way.”
Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science – The New Atlantis
Hillel Ofek on the lost Golden Age and the rejection of reason
Source: Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science – The New Atlantis
St. John One: One 