Archive for February, 2006
18th Dynasty Tomb in Luxor
This has been in the news for several weeks now and isn’t new by any means, but I thought it would be nice to collect some information and links about the new discovery in Luxor, Egypt just 5 meters from the tomb of Tutankhamen. It’ll probably be years before any scholarly reports will be [...]
Does Scientism Exist?
The topic of “scientism” keeps coming up in conversations with both those who criticize the rigorous demands of the scientific method as well as through a short monograph on the internet (Menton 1991) with the title, Carl Sagan: Prophet of Scientism.
Interestingly enough, the term scientism exists among scholarly references and refers to the notion that [...]
Science in Action: Sonic Hedgehog and Down Syndrome
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have made great strides in dealing restoring the the growth of nerve cells in mice that are afflicted with trisomy 21.
In mouse models, the researchers (Roper et al 2006) found that a protein could restore normal growth of specific nerve cells in the cerebellum. The protein’s name is Sonic Hedgehog [...]
