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CYKIAE (Christ You Know It Ain't Easy)CYKIAE Season 15 Part 11. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – Stephen Jay Gould declared neo-Darwinism "effectively dead, despite its persistence as textbook orthodoxy" .Evolutionary biologists. Did you know that sometimes even Homer nods? That’s an expression my amazing high school teacher used to say. I don’t think it’s a common expression today. So let me explain it to you.Tag words: Darwinism; Theory of Evolution; The Return of the God Hypothesis; Stephen Myer; DNA; RNA; proteins; Neo-Darwinists; John Lennox; God’s Undertaker; Bill Gates; Stephen Jay Gould; Jonathon Wells; Zombie Science; Icons of Evolution; Massimo Pigliucci; the Altenberg 16; Richard Lewontin; Jerry Fodor; Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini; Intelligent Design; Creationism; James Shapiro; Richard Dawkins; The Blind Watchmaker; God; Denis Noble; Raju Pookottil; The Thir...
2025-11-1731 min
Byoblu 24 SpecialeLa scienza come “Instrumentum Regni”: Dalla nuova Atlantide al Cts – Enzo Pennetta, Massimo Piattelli Palmarini #Sapiens³Byoblu presenta in esclusiva il convegno culturale “Sapiens³. Superare un'antropologia disumana”, ideato e promosso da Enzo Pennetta, biologo, saggista e insegnante, e Paolo Scapellato, docente di Psicologia Clinica all’Università Europea di Roma, tenutosi a Nemi, in provincia di Roma, nel Centro Ad Gentes lo scorso 3 e 4 luglio.Enzo Pennetta, in questo intervento, mette a tema la Scienza in relazione al Potere. Partendo dal concetto pessimistico che afferma “chiunque governi vorrebbe avere un modo infallibile per mantenere il potere” pone l’attenzione su come l’Italia sia sempre stata il laboratorio per qualsiasi percorso di cambiamento, sia positivo che negativo. L’...
2021-07-291h 06
Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant DharThe Nature of IntelligenceTrying to build artificial intelligence can teach us so much about intelligence itself. AI pioneer Yann LeCun, a winner of the Turing Award, joins Vasant Dhar in episode 7 of Brave New World to discuss how the field of AI has evolved and where it is heading. Points of discussion: How machines that perceive the world have turbocharged AI. How one of the biggest challenges in deep learning is common sense. The interface between industry and the academy. And how consciousness may not be a superpower but a reflection of our limitations. Useful resources: 1. Yann LeCun's homepage.
2021-03-041h 06
Not Related! A Big-Braned PodcastWhen You're Too Rational to Be Rational!This episode...Download – TorrentAre humans rational? What would that even mean? Does it mean we follow the laws of formal logic, or does it mean we only care about getting a positive end result? Some modern psychologists, often in the vein of the Heuristics and Biases Program (à la Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky) often implicitly assume that these are the same thing, that humans are often gravely miscalibrated in our sense of reason. We are logically broken. Some, proponents of Libertarian Paternalism, propose that this illogicalness should be actively mitigated by governmental policy and Nud...
2018-11-161h 05
VirologyM. Palmarini - Pathogenesis of arbovirus infections: the key role of follicular dendritic cellsMassimo Palmarini, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, UK speaks on "Pathogenesis of arbovirus infections: the key role of follicular dendritic cells". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste.
2017-02-2038 min
The CVR Presents Research Goes ViralArchitectural Antagonism by an Acute ArbovirusIn this episode, Connor chats with two CVR scientists, principal investigator and director of the institute, Professor Massimo Palmarini, and PhD student and vet, Eleonora Melzi. Eleonora and Massimo explain to us a bit about their work, which has recently been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Their paper provides new insights into how bluetongue virus evades the immune response of its host by drastically altering the workings of the lymph node, a critical organ of the immune response. Bluetongue is a very serious infection in sheep and other livestock animals and is an arbovirus...
2016-09-2726 min