Why Should Darwinism be Capitalistic?

Darwinian and neo-Darwinian ideas of natural selection, differential extinction and adaptive evolution have traditionally been linked to capitalistic views of “survival of the fittest”. As decades passed by, people including the scientific community at large began seeing Darwinian Laws of evolution (its not just a theory any more) as a justification for the greed, consumerism, [...]

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T-rex : Is the king-lizard of Jurassic Park losing its stand?

 
Ever since its discovery, Tyrannosaurusrex, paleontologists and laypeople have been mesmerized by the sheer enormity of this giant carnivore. Every time a new discovery or debate concerning T-rex pops up, it attracts fans from every field; very few historical things have enjoyed such phenomenal popularity – the Titanic, the Pyramids etc are a few on [...]

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Déjà vu : Is it your past that is replayed?

The sudden feeling of vague familiarity about certain scenes or things of life is a common phenomenon we might all have experienced one time or the other. Many of them were dream-like experiences, while some were so vivid; we almost thought it was a replay of the past.
The term “déjà vu” is believed to have [...]

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Gigantoraptor : The New Bird on the Block!

A new bird from the family of Oviraptors (the egg-stealers among dinos) has been discovered by paleontologist Xing Xu and team of the Beijing’s Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in the Gobi Desert in north-central China.
 
Initially thought have belonged to the T-rex family (see artists scale- drawing), this giant “bird of prey” is [...]

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Consciousness: How sure are you on that?

One of the fundamental problems of studying the phenomenon of Consciousness is in defining it objectively. To define it, one has to make a replicable model of consciousness, using some universal aspect of animal behavior that can be measured independent of the internal state of the individual’s brain in a lab setting.
Neuroscientists have, long ago, [...]

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