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Straipnsiai:
The Ethical Dog
Looking for the roots of human morality in the animal kingdom? Focus on canines, who know how to play fair
First Direct Recording Made of Mirror Neurons in Human Brain
Mirror neurons, many say, are what make us human. They are the cells in the brain that fire not only when we perform a particular action but also when we watch someone else perform that same action.
Our Universe at Home Within a Larger Universe? So Suggests Physicist’s Wormhole Research
Could our universe be located within the interior of a wormhole which itself is part of a black hole that lies within a much larger universe?
Who shot the president?
According to Dr Leman, „When there is a major event, people search for an explanation. There appears to be a general psychological tendency for people to think that a major or significant event must have been caused by something similarly major, significant or powerful. <…>“
Geneticist creates first artificial life
„This is the first synthetic cell that’s been made and we call it synthetic because the cell is totally derived from a synthetic (gene-bearing) chromosome, made with four bottles of chemicals on a chemical synthesiser, starting with information in a computer,“ Dr Venter said.
Liberalism, atheism, male sexual exclusivity linked to IQ
Participants who said they were atheists had an average IQ of 103 in adolescence, while adults who said they were religious averaged 97, the study found. Atheism „allows someone to move forward and speculate on life without any concern for the dogmatic structure of a religion,“ Bailey said.
Why atheism will replace religion
Anthropologist James Fraser proposed that scientific prediction and control of nature supplants religion as a means of controlling uncertainty in our lives. This hunch is supported by data showing that the more educated countries have higher levels of non belief and there are strong correlations between atheism and intelligence.
Knygos:
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. Richard Dawkins, 2009
Why Evolution Is True. Jerry A. Coyne, 2009
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Christopher Hitchens, 2007
God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist. Victor Stenger, 2007
The God Delusion. Richard Dawkins, 2006
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason. Sam Harris, 2005
The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution. Richard Dawkins, 2004
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. Carl Sagan, 1997