Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Wednesday, October 5, 2005

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Mind the Gaps - Intelligent design as an answer to all life's great conundrums: "The problem with science has always been that each new discovery unleashes thousands of new questions and ambiguities. So really, the more we discover new stuff, the stupider we get. Clearly, that isn't working. ID says we shouldn't bother ourselves with resolving scientific inconsistencies or untangling puzzles. We should recognize that what God really wants is for us just to stop learning."


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AntWeb on Google Earth: "Google Earth is a beautiful 3-dimensional interactive satellite-image globe of the Earth. Put all of AntWeb's ants on the globe by following these instructions..."


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Wary of Bioinformatics Bust, Biopharma Spends its IT Dollars More Wisely: 'Fuchs, who spoke at Cambridge Healthtech Institute's inaugural Bridging Discovery and IT conference here last week, said that he's "seeing a shift from lofty expectations" about what bioinformatics can accomplish "to more realistic, smaller projects with a better [return on investment]."'