What would it take to preserve all vertebrate life, and to what end?Read more…
Science Corner: The Word for ‘Gene’
I think it’s worth remembering that roughly 100 years ago, no language had a word for ‘gene.’Read more…
Science Corner: Throw Open the Gates of Science
The quality of our science will increase proportionately with and as a direct consequence of the diversity of our scientists.Read more…
Science Corner: Summer Science News Round-Up
We’ve had a busy summer–traveling, going to the movies, releasing a book–leaving less time to talk about current research. And there have been several recent stories making the rounds in Christian circles. They touch on questions many of us haveRead more…
Science Corner: Giving Thanks for 6 Years of ESN Science Blogging
Next month will be 6 years that I’ve been blogging about science and related topics for the Emerging Scholars Network. Which means that just about exactly 6 years ago, Tom Grosh called me up and invited me to write forRead more…
I Found a Postdoc in the Sciences: Now What? (Pt 2)
We figured it was time for a follow-up on what to do once you’ve found the postdoc you were looking for.Read more…
I Found a Postdoc in the Sciences: Now What? (Pt 1)
Postdocs occupy a weird, liminal space in the path of the scholar.Read more…
Sciences at ESN This Fall: What Are You Looking For?
Here’s your chance to let us know what you’d like to read about this fall from ESN’s science coverage!Read more…
Science Corner: Fruit Flies Like a Banana… And We’re Closer to Knowing Why
With the American Scientific Affiliation meeting coming up this week, I’ve got connecting on the brain. And now after catching up with the science news, I’m also thinking about the connections in the fruit fly brain.Read more…
Science Corner: Where to find me at the ASA Meeting
Getting a chance to chat face-to-face is a big reason I’m making the trip to Massachusetts. To make those meetings easier, here is my schedule.Read more…
Science Corner: To Infinitesimal and Beyond!
And so we have a hero who saw the vast gulf of experience and communication between himself and other living creatures and decided to build a bridge.Read more…
Science Corner: Science, Ho!
This story about citizen scientists contributing their time at sea to science caught my eye.Read more…
Science Corner: Ashes to Ashes, But What of Synthetic Dinosaurs?
This reflection on the themes of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom avoids spoilers, but as always feel free to wait until you’ve seen the movie if you want to know nothing about it when watching. It is widely reported that anRead more…
Science Corner: Lightning in a Novel
In essence, modern biology has grown up alongside Frankenstein and the science fiction genre.Read more…
Summer Book Suggestion: Strange Survivors by Oné Pagán
You are all but guaranteed to learn something new about God’s creativity as expressed through nature’s endless forms and to enjoy a chuckle in the process.Read more…
Science in Review: A Droid in Every Garage
What it does with ships, Solo also does for droids, taking a ubiquitous feature of the setting and giving them their day in the twin suns.Read more…
Science in Review: Just Gotta Get Right Outta Here
For Han Solo, spaceships mean the freedom to go anywhere but here.Read more…
Science Corner: What Even Is Real?!?
Can science help with our uncertainty about scientific questions?Read more…
Science Corner: We Can Remember It for You Wholesnail
By receiving RNA from the brain of another sea hare, recipients apparently acquired learned behavior from the donors.Read more…
Science Corner: Sympathy for the Bedeviled
If not knowing is a form of freedom, how can it be that the truth will set us free?Read more…
Science in Review: Thor, Thanos and Theology
Not only does this theology equate divinity with supernatural power to the exclusion of power manifest as nature, it also seems to only consider power.Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 12
Are there laws that prescribe how the world behaves, or are what we call the laws of nature simply our descriptions of the behavior we observe?Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 11
If politics applies truth to arrive at policies, and if science is a way of discovering truth, then the two will inevitably be intertwined.Read more…
Science Book Club: When Science & Christianity Meet Ch 10
It makes sense to me that the mind is not fully reducible to the brain and its activity, and that mental states are causally meaningful. At the same time, it makes sense that the mind is mediated by the brain, arising from the numerous interactions of nerve cells and other biological entities, possibly as an outgrowth of sensory perception turned inward.Read more…