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The Problem With Richard Dawkins

How should we view the politics of The Selfish Gene 50 years on?

Apr 22, 2023 • 

Emmy Brown

March 2023

Could There Be Laws Of Biology?

Physics has such nice equations and universal laws. Could we ever expect the same for biology?

Mar 10, 2023 • 

Emmy Brown

January 2023

You've Been Lied To About Genetics

Should we give (Mendel's) peas a chance? Nah, we've moved on.

Jan 20, 2023 • 

Emmy Brown

November 2022

Why Biology BREAKS Physics

"Physics is the most fundamental and all-inclusive of the sciences." Or is it?

Nov 12, 2022 • 

Emmy Brown

October 2022

How NOT To Think About Cells

Scientific animations can mislead us.

Oct 14, 2022 • 

Emmy Brown

September 2022

How A Single Metaphor Transformed Biology

Is Life Just Clockwork?

Sep 16, 2022 • 

Emmy Brown

July 2022

When Does Life Begin?

Pro-life advocates often make the claim: "Science proves that life begins at conception." But how much truth is there really behind this argument?

Jul 19, 2022 • 

Emmy Brown

May 2022

Why We Can't Define Life (and we shouldn't try to)

NASA might have found life on Mars in the 70s.

May 4, 2022 • 

Emmy Brown

March 2022

Why Natural Selection Doesn't Explain Everything

The dangers of the Adaptationist Fallacy is a cautionary tale known well by biologists, but I feel like it hasn't distilled down well to the general…

Mar 18, 2022 • 

Emmy Brown

February 2022

Organisms Are Not Made Of Atoms

“What am I?” is one of the oldest questions in philosophy but we may have been asking the wrong question this whole time.

Feb 11, 2022 • 

Emmy Brown