The Denis Noble – Richard Dawkins debate is finally released. New Vanguard vs. Old Guard. It’s a marketing lesson par excellence. The debate is online here: https://evo2.org/denis-noble-debates-richard-dawkins-full-video/ Since I’m in the marketing profession I have a few comments about this. There is a marketing lesson that even a person who neither knows nor cares about…
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Denis Noble debates Richard Dawkins: Is it time to retire the Selfish Gene? High-level thinkers at Oxford University prodded Richard Dawkins to defend his Selfish Gene theory for years. He finally relented and debated Denis Noble in June 2022 at the UK’s How the Light Gets In festival.
Jon Perry of Stated Clearly and I do a discussion and debate about purpose in nature which philosophers call teleology. This is the real issue that people are arguing about: Is the hand at the end of your arm an accumulation of random accidents? Or is it purposeful? That is the question. Jon has a…
For years I just sort of assumed that cells were self-reproducing blobs of protein. Maybe you did too. Turns out they’re way smarter than that. You will be amazed at this video. Bonnie Basler from Princeton University gives a beautiful talk on how bacteria communicate with each other by making words out of molecules:
Have you ever thought about WHY you have to take the entire bottle of antibiotics every time you get a sinus infection? Because a regular ole’ bug can become a SUPERBUG in about 10 minutes. Unless you napalm the bacteria wreaking havoc on your immune system into oblivion, the tiny little bastards will come back…
Mother Nature has some pretty stunning capabilities. One of them is the ability of two species to combine and make a stronger hybrid. One such merger is the marriage of fungi and algae to make: Lichen. Lichen can make its own food by way of photosynthesis thanks to algae AND protection from the environment through…
Robert Full is a professor at the University of California-Berkeley. He studies cockroach legs and gecko feet. His research is helping build the perfect “distributed foot” for tomorrow’s robots, based on nature’s engineering.
In this video he describes the remarkable features of insect and animal legs, and shows you a robot built based on these same principles:
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