What's New? Archive

    Added December 1, 2000:

  • Added an interview excerpt from Stephen Jay Gould's appearance on Timothy Ferris's film Life Beyond Earth (1999) to the Stephen Jay Gould page (download file here).

    • Added November 21, 2000:

  • MC Hawking Raps "F— the Creationists" In MP3 Format.

    …To the humor section of the Audio Page.

    • Added November 20, 2000:

  • Appended a Quotation Section and added Gould's essay "Shades of Lamarck."

    …To the Stephen Jay Gould Page.

    • Added October 26, 2000:

  • Added an audio excerpt from Stephen Jay Gould's guest appearance on "The Simpsons," to the Stephen Jay Gould page (download here).

    • Added September 13, 2000:

  • All Things Considered: "Consilience" March 11, 1998.
    Robert speaks with Edward O. Wilson, Research Professor and Honorary Curator of Entomology at Harvard University. Professor Wilson makes his case for the notion that "a fundamental unity" is "underlying all forms of knowledge." Robert and Professor Wilson discuss the meaning and implications of this concept, which Wilson calls "consilience." In his new book, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (Published by Knopf) and an article in the March issue of The Atlantic developed from the book, Wilson makes the case for a more holistic approach to classifying knowledge, and for the rejection of postmodern ideas about the fragmentation of reality and understanding. (HTML)

  • Talk of the Nation: Science Friday: "Edward O. Wilson" November 15, 1996.
    E.O. Wilson's contributions to science, and especially to evolutionary biology, are invaluable. Join Ira Flatow with the man who, in his own words, has "served as a close witness to fundamental changes in nature." (HTML)

    …To the Audio Page.

    • Added September 1, 2000:

  • Appended an excerpt from Douglas Futuyma's Evolutionary Biology (1998) to Stephen Jay Gould's essay "Hooking Leviathan by Its Past" (1997).

    • Added August 28, 2000:

  • "Evolution as Fact and Theory" by Stephen Jay Gould

    • Added August 16, 2000:

  • Talk of the Nation: "God, Belief, and Reason" October 4, 1999.
    Revolutions in science and industry, and wars on a massive scale this century led many in the West to question their faith. But despite continuing scientific advances and the persistence of man's inhumanity, recent polls indicate that belief in God is surprisingly prevalent — and that for most people, belief in God has more to do with reason than with faith. Join Melinda Penkava and guests, Michael Shermer and Fuz Rana, for a look at God, belief, and the scientific mind. (HTML)

    …To the Audio Page.

    • Added August 16, 2000:

  • "Darwin's Precursors and Influences" by John Wilkins
  • "The Demon-Haunted World: The Fine Art of Baloney Detection" by Carl Sagan
  • "Where do we come from? We still have few clues to the origin of life" by Massimo Pigliucci
  • "The Case Against God: Science and the Falsifiability Question in…" by Massimo Pigliucci

    …To the Library.

    • Added August 15, 2000:

  • Stephen Jay Gould's Epilogue to his essay "Hooking Leviathan by Its Past."

  • "The Theoretical Value of Punctuated Equilibrium" by Robyn C. Broyle

    • Added August 1, 2000:

  • Talk of the Nation: Science Friday: "How and Why Species Form" October 4, 1996.
    What does it take to make a new species? From finches in the Galapagos Islands or fish in African lakes to fruit flies closer to home, we'll talk to evolutionary biologists about how new species develop, and how advances in molecular biology are helping scientists trace evolutionary pathways. It's the origins of species, in this hour of Science Friday with guest Jerry Coyne, Professor of Ecology and Evolution at theUniversity of Chicago, and Axel Meyer Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. (HTML)

    …To the Audio Page.

    • Added July 26, 2000:

  • Talk of the Nation: Science Friday: "The Cambrian Explosion" March 7, 1997.
    Guest Dr. Doug Erwin, a research paleobiologist and Curator of the Burgess Shale Fossils at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, and Dr. David Jablonski, Professor of Paleobiology at the University of Chicago, talk to Ira Flatow and callers about the Cambrian Explosion, the most significant biological event in the history of multicellular life, a short period in evolutionary history when all the basic body plans of living animals initially appeared. (HTML)

  • Talk of the Nation: "Scientists and Faith" April 16, 1997.
    Join host Melinda Penkava and guest Edward J. Larson, William B. Provine, and Lawrence R. Doyle for a look at the sometimes harmonious, often tumultuous relationship between Western science and religion. Despite 80 years of progress in science a recent University of Georgia survey indicates that as many scientists believe in God today as did earlier this century. Melinda talks with guests about why science and religion have been deemed incompatible throughout history and how some scientists have managed to reconcile work and faith. (HTML)

    …To the Audio Page.

    • Added July 23, 2000:

  • Talk of the Nation: Science Friday: "Scopes Trial 75th Anniversary" July 21, 2000.
    In 1925, John Scopes was tried for teaching the theory of evolution in a Tennessee public school. Join Ira Flatow and Pulitzer Prize winning author Edward Larson in this hour for a look back at the trial on its 75th anniversary, and at the ongoing battle over teaching evolution in the public schools. Plus, a talk with Kenneth Miller, author of the recent book Finding Darwin's God (1999), and Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box (1996), as they debate the issue of Darwinism and the theory of "intelligent design." (HTML)

    …To the Audio Page.

    • Added July 16, 2000:

  • "A Review of Stephen Jay Gould's Dinosaur in a Haystack," by Kathryn Denning
  • "Feast on a Diet of Worms: A Naturalist's Work is Food for Thought," by John Skow
  • "Who's the Fittest Evolutionary Thinker of Them All?," by James Schwartz
  • "The Survival of the Fittest: Stephen Jay Gould in London," by Robyn Williams

  • Nonoverlapping Magisteria: by Stephen Jay Gould
  • The Pattern of Life's History: by Stephen Jay Gould
  • The Evolution of Life On Earth: by Stephen Jay Gould

    …To the Stephen Jay Gould Page.

    • Added July 15, 2000:

  • The Connection: with Christopher Lydon: "Darwin's God" January 6, 2000.
    Kenneth Miller teaches the hard biological science of evolution to university students at Brown. At a moment when school boards in Kansas and elsewhere want to get evolution out of the curriculum and would love to get God back in, Kenneth Miller makes no bones about having it both ways: biology gives a much fuller account of God's methods and means than the Book of Genesis did, he says; yet the God behind his Science, Ken Miller says, is every bit as creative in the present as He was in the past. (HTML)

  • The Connection: with Christopher Lydon: "The God Problem" July 2000.

    …To the Audio Page.

    • Added July 9, 2000:

  • Talk of the Nation: Science Friday: "A Conversation with James D. Watson" June 2, 2000.
    In April of 1953, the journal Nature published a very short paper by two scientists, Francis Crick and James Watson. In that paper, the pair suggested a structure for the DNA molecule — which, they pointed out, "has novel features which are of considerable biological interest." and the world hasn't been the same since. (HTML)

    …To the Audio Page.

    • Added July 7, 2000:

  • Talk of the Nation: Science Friday: "Media and Misinformation" June 21, 1996.
    Switch on the TV and you're more likely to find a program on ESP than on astronomy. Why the media obsession with pseudoscience? Misinformation and the media in this hour of Science Friday, live from the first World Skeptics Congress in Buffalo, New York. Join guests Paul Kurtz (Chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal), John Paulos (Professor of Mathematics at Temple University), Milton Rosenberg (Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Chicago), and broadcast journalist Phillip Adams as they discusses skepticism and misinformation in popular media. (HTML)

  • Talk of the Nation: Science Friday: "The Role of the Skeptic" June 21, 1996.
    What does it mean to be a skeptic? Find out as Science Friday broadcasts live from the first World Skeptics Congress in Buffalo, New York. We'll discuss the challenge of thinking critically in a world awash in faulty facts and misinformation with noted guests Eugenie Scott, Executive Director National Center for Science Education, Kendrick Frazier, Editor of the Skeptical Inquirer, Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow of The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, and Ray Hyman, Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon. (HTML)

    …To the Audio Page.

    • Added July 2, 2000:

    Added the following material to the Stephen Jay Gould Page:

    • Life Beyond Earth audio excerpt
    • Life Beyond Earth Interview Archive
    • Supernatural Selection: Gould on Science and Religion
    • Size and Shape: The Immutable Laws of Design
    • Book of the Times: Asking Big Questions On Science and Meaning
    • Review of Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
    • When Religion Steps on Science's Turf

    Added July 1, 2000:

  • "Darwin's New Critics on Trial: Irreducible Complexity" by Michael Ruse.


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