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Category Archives: Science & Nature

Innovative Technology Will Enhance Ghana’s Agriculture

September 14, 2016by Humanist Service Corps 1 Comment

By Lukeman Adams Humanist Service Corps Volunteer It is lovely seeing seven different people from different social, racial, and geographical backgrounds working collectively for a common purpose. People across Ghana and the […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Science & Nature

Lifeguard Lollygagging Pt 1: The Brain as Mind

November 6, 2015by Leo Kozachkov 1 Comment

I’ve been working as a lifeguard every summer for the last five summers. It gives me a lot of idle time to think about things. It also gives the sun […]

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Ethics & Philosophy, Science & Nature

When We Shouldn’t – And Should – Argue from Authority

July 17, 2015by Paul Chiariello 1 Comment

I love taking common platitudes from rationality and pointing out the exceptions.  Why?  Because I hate when a short catchy maxim is used incorrectly to belittle others’ rational arguments.  The irony […]

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Ethics & Philosophy, Science & Nature

How Correlation Does and Doesn’t Imply Causation

February 13, 2015by Paul Chiariello 5 Comments

In my last article I discussed the popular rule “absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence,” often associated with the argument from ignorance.   However, this popular mantra, and almost every […]

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Science & Nature

On Mathematical Intelligence and How It Grows

February 10, 2015by Leo Kozachkov 5 Comments

TL;DR: There is no Royal Road. In his three recent and awesome posts on intelligence, Scott Alexander describes what it’s like to grow up intellectually lopsided (high verbal IQ and […]

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Science & Nature

Tending to the Demise: Book Review of ‘Being Mortal’

February 3, 2015by Meghan Guidry Leave a comment

In America, and indeed worldwide, death is an abstract that lingers at the periphery of waking life until its reality comes crashing down. Though many of us see depictions of […]

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Did Interstellar Live Up to its Hard Sci-Fi Hype? Review of Nolan’s Space Opera

November 11, 2014by Leo Kozachkov 5 Comments

WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE INTERSTELLAR. I just got back from watching Christopher Nolan’s new movie Interstellar in glorious, eye-popping IMAX. I’m really torn right now. I’ve written and […]

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Book & Movie Reviews, Science & Nature

The Importance of Hard Science Fiction

October 14, 2014by Leo Kozachkov 12 Comments

For the last eighty or so years, science fiction writers have been the doormen to a strange and exciting universe replete with extra dimensions, elementary particles, time-travel, intergalactic wars, speculative […]

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Art & Literature, Science & Nature

Humans Are Weird, & Other Lessons From Animal Behavior: Interview w Dr. Laurie Santos

September 30, 2014by Wendy Webber 1 Comment

Two weeks ago was the Yale Humanist Community’s first ever Humanist Haven, a monthly nonreligious community gathering. The first speaker at the first meeting was Dr. Laurie Santos, a professor […]

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Religion & Secularism, Science & Nature

The Soul Fallacy: An Interview w Psychology Prof Julien Musolino

August 26, 2014by Leo Kozachkov 5 Comments

It’s not everyday you get to meet someone like Rutgers professor Julien Musolino. In our age of specialization, Julien is part of a small (but growing!) cadre of thinkers whose […]

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Book & Movie Reviews, Religion & Secularism, Science & Nature

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