There is a widespread belief that, given enough time, chance, or randomness, can produce a very wide range of different possible outcomes, including those, such
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The Selfish Gene Does Not Exist
Early in The Selfish Gene, the book’s author, Richard Dawkins, declares, “I might say to you ‘Darwin was the greatest man who has ever lived’,
Why do Honeybees have Barbed Stingers? The Law of Balance
Besides the many other interesting things about them, an interesting fact about honeybees is that they belong to the only bee species to possess barbed
The Science Myth: The Humanity Experiment
At the beginning of the essay “The Capitalism Myth,” I considered the question of whether science can be considered as a sort of myth. Most
The Fallacy of the Prisoners’ Dilemma
The prisoners’ dilemma, based on a paper written by Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher in 1950, has become the paradigmatic example of game theory, which
Homo Stupidus 