S o, having just returned from and now recuperating from coronary bypass surgery, I have to ask the 'complexity' question--a very pe...

I n what sense--what scientific sense--does the future resemble the past?  Or perhaps, to what extent does it?  Can we know?  If we can'...

W e often want our accounts in science to be consistent with the facts.  Even if we can't explain all  the current facts, we can always ...

W here did we get the idea that our entire nature, not just our embryological development, but everything else, was pre-programmed by our ge...

W e typically bandy the word probability  around, as if we actually understand it. The term, or a variant of it like probably , can be used ...

I n Samuel Beckett's cryptic play, Waiting for Godot , two men spend the entire play anticipating the arrival of someone, Godot, at whic...

" A s behavioral ecologists, we try to reveal rules of behavior as though we were discovering truths.  In reality, the word 'rule...

T here is hardly a trait, physical or behavioral, for which there is not at least some familial resemblance, especially among close relative...

S ome people feel that scientific issues should be kept separate from science politics.  But is that even possible?  The fear is often voic...

K en and I were visiting with a woman the other day whose elderly husband is dying.  In his 90's, he has long had seriously impaired vis...