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Rime of the Pleistocene Mariner (and Other Oddities in Cognitive Evolution)

By cyoungbull | Published: March 3, 2010
The patterns of social behavior are predicated upon biological patterns which are themselves driven by environmental and physical patterns. Sometimes though, Nature throws us for a loop and things are discovered which seem to defy our perceptions of evolution.  Examples of ideas, organisms and phenomena that stand out as temporal oddities are all around us. Many technologies [...]
Posted in AntiScience, Cognitive Evolution | 1 Comment

What a long strange trip it’s been: Paul Davies’ New Book and Hadronistry Coined

By cyoungbull | Published: March 2, 2010
Our recent post on the shadow biosphere attracted a lot of attention, including from Dr. Paul Davies himself.  We’ve been talking to Dr. Davies now and were happy to learn that he has just published a new book on the implications of shadow life for the search for extra-terrestrial beings. Here’s what Dr. Davies had [...]
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Alternate “life” styles: scientists predict the possibility of a Shadow Biosphere

By cyoungbull | Published: February 6, 2010
The possibility of strange forms of alien life seems to have just got a whole lot closer to home.  Astrobiologists from Arizona State University, Florida, UC Boulder, NASA, Harvard and Australia have recently theorized about a “shadow biosphere” – a biosphere within a biosphere where alternative biochemistry may be thriving in a way that we haven’t yet [...]
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