Nature correspondence on evolution and ID

This week’s Nature features a nice battle between creationists and evolutionists in the correspondence section.
The debate contains the following parts:

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The omnipotency of binding

Is binding the single most important concept in neuroscience? I think it is, even without making the concept too general or vague. On the contrary, binding seems to be a general concept to understand the workings of the brain. No more need for modules of perception, cognition, memory and action. Binding is the solution.
More specifically, [...]

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Religion & science brick book

I just received the Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science. It’s nothing short of a mammoth book on this topic — and I didn’t even know it was such a big topic. Basically, the book’s aim is to provide a comprehensive introduction and review of the field. The book also attempts to provide a discussion [...]

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SfN reflections II — a few headlines

It’s really a slow digestion period, getting back from SfN in Atlanta. Other than an aching back and jet-lag the conference experience has been tremendous. But at the same time it was rather confusing. Those talks and lectures that I expected to be good turned out to be boring or far too complex (or ill [...]

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Studying the brain-web pathways with MRI

It’s been a while, and whoah! have we been drowning in work or what? The media here in Denmark have caught on both our stories about teenage brains and stem cells in mother’s brains.
Here is a nice demo of how MRI can be used to study not only the brain per se, but also how [...]

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