Word: evolutionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This summer's environmental assaults, the author believes, have made an Ecotopian world a little more likely. "We have been messing about with the atmosphere in a truly Faustian way. That and the garbage on the shores have put people in a rotten humor." But what will really "be the...
Glashow, whose expertise lies in elementary particle physics--the study of both the basic elements of matter and the forces which hold them together--encounters a problem which other popularizers of biology, astronomy and evolution have not: the inherent abstractness of particle physics. Whereas most people wonder at the changing...
This week we mark one more step in that evolution. in recent months, you may have noticed, we have been experimenting with new ways to organize our stories and present them on our pages. we are now applying a number of these approaches throughout the magazine. we're also adding...
All three have spent many years searching for unifying principles in the patterns of information that surround us. For Fredkin, the lifelong rationalist, the universe itself is the vast expression of many iterations of simple but powerful ordering rules. Wilson, filled since childhood with a love for the natural world...
The scientific world view gives our lives no objective value or intrinsic purpose. We cannot blindly follow our biological imperatives, for if we did, something of our humanity would be lost. We are evolution's orphans. Our intellectual integrity does not allow us to abandon science, yet Wright wishes that...