May 18, 2011
Proposing a ‘Coast Guard’ for Space
James C. Bennett on what ails America’s space sector and how to fix it
Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/themes/thenewatlantis/taxonomy.php on line 24
Tag
394 Results
May 18, 2011
What Do Organisms Mean?
Biologists vehemently insist that life is nothing more than matter and mechanism. But they describe organisms as...
May 18, 2011
The Near Miracle of Male Infertility Treatment
Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill on creating infertile fathers
May 18, 2011
Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science
Hillel Ofek on the lost Golden Age and the rejection of reason
May 18, 2011
Locke, Darwin, and America’s Future
How the philosopher and scientist shape the way we think about dignity, rights, and human nature.
May 18, 2011
The Last Temptation of Science
There are those whose noses wrinkle whenever they catch a whiff of allegory in the air. Edgar Allan Poe, in his 1847...
January 21, 2011
What Neuroscience Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves
Debunking the tropes of neuromythology — by Raymond Tallis
January 21, 2011
The Unbearable Wholeness of Beings
The metaphor of machines pervades biological writing. But it is a profoundly misleading way of describing living...
January 21, 2011
Humanism and Transhumanism
The name of the movement known as “transhumanism” may suggest that it arises out of humanism. At the very...
January 21, 2011
The Trouble with Cyber Arms Control
Christopher A. Ford on why we should be wary of Russian and Chinese proposals