Taking pictures of creatures in the world around you can contribute valuable data about what species live where.Read more…
Science in Review: Decision-Making A Long Time Ago and in a Future Not Far Away
Making decisions is challenging and risky. Why not let someone more intelligent with more information have that responsibility, even if that ‘someone’ is implemented in software.Read more…
Science in Review: On the Couch with Dr. Know
J. Nathan Matias and colleagues took up the possibility of using more sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) to predict mental health outcomes for individuals.Read more…
Science in Review: Meet the New Boss, v4.8.23 of the Old Boss
I commend the whole series [on AI and Christianity] to you; the articles are brief introductions to a variety of topics in artificial intelligence and how they intersect with traditional Christian thinking and concerns, along with resources for more details.Read more…
Science in Review: Reformation Comes to the Book of Nature
This week we observe the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s hammer stroke heard ’round the world.Read more…
Science Book Review: Jesus, Beginnings, and Science
Dave & Kate Vosburg bring us a discussion guide to help break the ice on conversations about science and creation.Read more…
Next Steps for ESN — Science Edition
I enjoyed reading along with you and being able to chat here in the comments and via video chats, so I want to see if we can make [the blog book club] a more regular feature.Read more…
Science Book Review: The War on Science
To the extent that there really is a war on science, I would preferred more of a peace proposal than marching orders for one side.Read more…
Science in Review: Taxi Cab Science
I would like to see my science communication focus more on conversation and discussion, rather than just monologuing.Read more…
Science in Review: Taking Science into the Streets
The walking [at the Pittsburgh March for Science] would also provide a good opportunity to reflect on science in the public sphere.Read more…
Science in Review: The Evolving Healthcare Market
How do we provide the best possible healthcare for the most people and how do we pay for it?Read more…
Science in Review: Pleistocene Park
Bringing back the mammoth is part of a larger program of “de-extinction” to explore the possibility of bringing back various extinct species, at least some of which we humans are responsible for eliminating.Read more…
Science in Review: The Linguistic Match Game
[W]e learn languages so easily because languages themselves have evolved to be easy to learn.Read more…
Science in Review: Looking Back at 2016
Here are some of the standout moments from the year 2016 in the realm of science and the intersection of science and faith.Read more…
Science in Review: Symbols and Symbiotes
I’m sympathetic to the desire for greater harmony, understanding, and cooperation, but I’m not convinced the metaphor of healing will actually get us there.Read more…
Science in Review: A Strange Prescription for Reconciling Faith & Science
If we are at the place where the natural and the supernatural meet, it is a place of fruitful collaboration, not strident conflict.Read more…
Is God Relevant in an Age of Science? (STEAM Grant Series November Question)
Folks who see faith and science as conflicted are at least still engaged, even if it’s to further prosecute that conflict. Engaging folks on a topic they find irrelevant is much trickier.Read more…
Science in Review: The Unknown is Great!
Science is looking closely at all sorts of things you probably don’t know about! — Lily GroshRead more…
Science in Review: It Ain’t Rocket Science
People who might otherwise be complaining about an extra 10 minutes added to their commute were suddenly contemplating a journey that would take longer than all of recorded human history.Read more…
Science in Review: The Open and Closed Case of Steve v Steve
Optimizing for sustainability, personal cost, global resource consumption, individual dietary needs, and overall nutrition and health in the presence of uncertainty about the relative and absolute merits of different foods and diets is a nontrivial problem. The space of possible foods over which to perform that optimization is expanding.Read more…
Science in Review: Have You Tried Turning Science Off And Turning It Back On Again?
[I]sn’t science supposed to be objective, not to mention correct? If [a] study really is that flawed, how did it get published in such a prestigious journal? If it is valid, why isn’t its validity objectively clear to all scientists?Read more…
Science in Review: God or Supergod?
On those long, dark Saturdays of the soul, we’ll have a choice. We can adjust our idea of God for a complete explanation now—that God either acted evilly or God was unable to act—or we can believe God is consistent and gain the hope of Resurrection Sunday.Read more…
Science in Review: Is God Outside of Time?
God starting outside of time and coming inside is a tricky notion. When did that transition take place? We can talk about a specific moment from our perspective on the inside, but how do you talk about “when” outside of time? It’s a little like asking which room of your house your backyard is in. Even the notion of a transition that doesn’t take place in time is mind-bendy.Read more…
Science in Review: “Prediction is hard, especially about the future”
Statistical models, like those used to predict the weather, deal with uncertainty. This runs counter to our expectations for mathematics. Factor in a reliance on probabilities, which are deeply unintuitive, and it’s no wonder we find these models hard to understand. Nevertheless, they can actually be quite useful.Read more…