To Find the Principles

"In fiction, the principles are given, to find
the facts: in history, the facts are given,
to find the principles; and the writer
who does not explain the phenomena
as well as state them performs
only one half of his office."

Thomas Babington Macaulay,
"History," Edinburgh Review, 1828

Showing posts with label Genetics and History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Genetics and History. Show all posts
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Amelia Earhart's Fate: Bone of Contention

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Just a brief update on a post from this summer regarding the mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance. The team that claimed to have...
Saturday, August 7, 2010

Coming Attractions: this Sunday, on National Geographic, "and Man created Dog"

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 Just a heads-up on a new program about the human role in the evolution of the dog. Here, an excerpt: It runs Sunday evening at 9 p....
Tuesday, June 8, 2010

New Clues as to Amelia Earhart's Fate?

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Discovery News reports: Tantalizing new clues are surfacing in the Amelia Earhart mystery, according to researchers scouring a remote South...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Practical Things You Can Learn from Studying Science. Lessons from history

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A recent article by John Malone and Brian Oliver, " The genomic 'inner fish' and a regulatory enigma in the vertebrates ,"...
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Evolving and Thinking: Hampshire College Launches Darwin Anniversary Celebration

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Darwin Day Arrives: It’s a shame in more ways than one that today's publicity stunt by the Hampshire Students for Justice in Palestine ...
Sunday, August 26, 2007

Who's Your Daddy?

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It's an intriguing question, and not just because this is the Red Sox nation and we are locked in another struggle for the pennant with...
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