What’s the Password

What’s the Password

What’s the Password If you wanted an alcoholic drink one hundred years, you were out of luck. You either waited until 1933, when the constitutional ban on liquor was lifted, or you found your way to an underground establishment known as a “speakeasy”. It was...
The Evolution of Consciousness?

The Evolution of Consciousness?

The Evolution of Consciousness? “… the laws of organic development have been occasionally used for a special end, just as man uses them for his special ends; and, I do not see that the law of “natural selection” can be said to be disproved, if it can be shown that man...
The Joy of Mutation

The Joy of Mutation

The Joy of Mutation Imagine a world without mutants. I don’t mean those super-powered heroes that populate the comics and movies from Marvel. I’m talking about you, me, and everyone else we know. It doesn’t stop there. It extends to the grass at our feet, the trees...

A Bit of Astrobiology

How do we find life in a galaxy, or galaxies, far far away while sitting here on Earth? It’s not just by looking through telescopes or sending probes.  Those will tell us a few things, but not everything.  We need a multi-disciplinary approach.  One that combines...
Never Say That… !

Never Say That… !

Never Say That… ! “The idea, then, which I form of the progress of organic life upon the globe—and the hypothesis is applicable to all similar theatres of vital being—is, that the simplest and most primitive type, under a law to which that of like-production is...