The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
He addresses the Behe diavlog . Sort of. McWhorter states that he did not find the rebuttals to the arguments in Michael Behe's Edge of Evolution persuasive. Fair enough, but I would be curious as to what other books on evolution he has read (I think he mentioned Sean Carroll'). The math in something like John Maynard Smith's Evolutionary Genetics is really not that hard (mostly...
Sciencebase Science Blog (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... right after all, eh? Clockwise from top left: Sir James Black, Sir Michael Atiyah, Michael Green, John Maynard-Smith. Green, a pioneer of string theory, this month succeeds Professor Stephen Hawking as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University and is one of just eleven eminent British scientists photographed by Somerset-based photographers Anita Corbin and John...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... characteristic is that it isn't one. In fact one of their interviewees was taught at Sussex by John Maynard Smith , an experience he describes as "a real privilege". Interviewees did not seem to be united in either a geographical or a political sense. They did not necessarily belong to or attend any creationist groups or organisations and, where they did, they belonged...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Karl Sigmund in American Scientist : Humans are social animals, and so were their ancestors, for millions of years before the first campfires lighted the night. But only recently have humans come to understand the mathematics of social interactions. The mathematician John von Neumann and the economist Oskar Morgenstern were the first to tackle the subject, in a book they were planning to call...
