Should a scientist have "faith"?

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Scientists like to think that they are objective and unbiased, driven by hard facts and evidence-based inquiry. They are proud of saying tha...

Man as a "machine-tickling aphid"

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On the playground in the park today, my daughter and I played with some carpenter ants and the aphids they were farming. The phenomenon neve...
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Philip Morrison on challenges with AI

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Philip Morrison who was a top-notch physicist and polymath with an incredible knowledge of things beyond his immediate field was also a spee...

Consciousness and the Physical World, edited by V. S. Ramachandran and Brian Josephson

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Consciousness and the Physical World: Proceedings of the Conference on Consciousness Held at the University of Cambridge, 9Th-10th January, ...
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Rutherford on tools and theories (and machine learning)

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Ernest Rutherford was the consummate master of experiment, disdaining theoreticians for playing around with their symbols while he and his f...
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Has Carl Sagan's "Contact" aged well?

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I have watched "Contact" several times and was watching it again the other day. Carl Sagan got a lot of things right in it, includ...

When it comes to science, the practical is the moral and the moral the practical

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Ignaz Semmelweis We seem to live in a time when skepticism of science and its experts runs deep and where political mandarins of all persuas...
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Complementarity And The World: Niels Bohr’s Message In A Bottle

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Werner Heisenberg was on a boat with Niels Bohr and a few friends, shortly after he discovered his famous uncertainty principle in 1927. A b...
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Steven Weinberg (1933-2021)

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I was quite saddened to hear about the passing of Steven Weinberg, perhaps the dominant living figure from the golden age of particle physic...