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| Alan Turing Summer Institute on consciousness |
| Yesterday was my last day of lectures in Leipzig (this week was on the genetics of cancer, sex determination and learning/memory in mice) and now I’m in Montréal attending lectures myself. I’m now at the Turing Centenary...[more] |
| evolution consciousness free will summer school montreal turing |
| Posted on Saturday 30 June 2012 - 12:54:00 |
| EvolutionGems@Nature |
| Nature magazine has a nice little collection of evolution gems up on their website, freely accessible without subscription. What's it all about? Read yourself (PDF):...[more] |
| evolution Nature |
| Posted on Thursday 01 January 2009 - 18:26:18 |
| Discovery Institute: Intelligent Design no theory, no content, no explanation |
| Talk show host and recent senior Discovery Institute fellow Michael Medved (apparently, November last year is so recent he's not even listed on the DI website, yet) has publicly announced what everybody already knew: In...[more] |
| evolution Discovery Institute intelligent design gilder medved creationism |
| Posted on Monday 11 August 2008 - 10:15:08 |
| Presentation videos for Alan Turing Summer Institute on consciousness |
| At this great meeting in Montreal I won't have to blog a lot about each presentation, as most presentations will be videotaped and made available soon after. The first presentation (by Daniel Dennett) is already up can c...[more] |
| evolution consciousness free will summer school montreal turing video |
| Posted on Saturday 30 June 2012 - 21:13:17 |
| Evidence for punctuated equilibria |
| In evolution, there has been a hot debate going on for the last 35 years: is evolution happening at a steady pace and gradually or is it jumping around widely with short spurts of rapid evolution spaced by long stretches...[more] |
| evolution punctuated equilibrium Gould science |
| Posted on Friday 06 October 2006 - 18:54:47 |
| In which the Institute for Creation Research gets something right |
But they won't like it. Not one bit.  In a recent blog post, the Institute for Creation Research (I wonder what it is they research: they already have all their answers in their book based on the tales of bronze-age goat...[more] |
| evolution creationism phylogeny taxonomy |
| Posted on Thursday 16 September 2010 - 06:22:10 |
| From consciousness to biogenic amines in insects |
| After an 11 hour odyssey at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, France, I'm finally back in Berlin. Unfortunately, I missed the first day of the symposium organized by our research unit on biogenic amines in insects due ...[more] |
| evolution consciousness free will summer school montreal turing video insects biogenic amines symposium |
| Posted on Saturday 07 July 2012 - 11:18:35 |
| What would change your mind about evolution? |
| There are several hallmarks of science. One of them is that scientific theories make predictions about future observations. Another is that if these observations cannot be explained by the theory, a new theory has to be ...[more] |
| evolution creationism |
| Posted on Friday 06 March 2009 - 11:08:11 |
| Taking intelligent falling to a whole new level |
Science blogger PZ Myers takes the theory of intelligent falling to a whole new level when he chastizes Newtonianism on Pharyngula. Fantastic read  ...[more] |
| evolution creationism fun |
| Posted on Monday 31 March 2008 - 10:49:56 |
| Presentation on behavioral freedom in Drosophila with panel discussion on YouTube |
| As promised, find below the video of my talk at the Montreal Summer Institute on Consciousness. The abstract and some discussion can be found on the conference blog. There is also a video of the subsequent panel discuss...[more] |
| evolution consciousness free will summer school montreal turing video |
| Posted on Sunday 08 July 2012 - 12:05:59 |