Irreducible complexity cut down to size
Explaining how complexity can arise through gradual evolution and debunking anti-evolutionist arguments.
Category Archives: Science
Five Big Black Hole Puzzles Solved
How do we know black holes exist? Would you like to know what it would be like to fall into one? Recent simulations and cutting-edge visuals are giving new insight into these strange objects and have helped us answer five big questions about them.
Pigeons Fancy a Flutter
If you’ve got a weakness for gambling, you might try to explain your vice away by saying “I’m only human.” But it turns out that chancing your luck is something other species do. According to researchers from the University of Kentucky, pigeons also like to gamble, even when the odds are against them. Professor Thomas […]
Science Fail Followed by Science Win [Pic]
[Picture via JavaLSU on Reddit]
Chimpanzees Stick to Gender Stereotypes
The nature vs nurture debate is one of science’s longer-running questions, and it doesn’t seem likely it will be settled any time soon. But a newly-published study shows the issue isn’t confined to the human race. Sonya Kahlenberg of Bates College, Maine, and Richard Wrangham of Harvard University have published an article in Current Biology […]
Why the other line is likely to move faster [Video]
In the following video, Bill Hammack of engineerguy.com reveals how “queueing theory” – originally developed by engineers to route phone calls – can be used to design efficient check out lines, and why, in stores with non optimized lines, the other lines always seem to move faster. Previously on [GaS]: How Quartz Watches Work: The […]
How Quartz Watches Work: The Piezoelectric Effect in Action [Video]
This is amazing. For all you geeks who do not know how quartz watches work, you really need to watch this video.
Earth History in C Major
Richard Dawkins uses the piano to illustrate the timeline of life on Earth.