I want to follow-up on the conversation about ideology and empiricism with Russ Roberts, Noah Smith, and Paul Krugman. Here is my previous entry, and here is Noah's with some updates and links.

The company is bringing AI-generated care plans to its users, which are based on individual user data from its Apple Watch app. Empirical Health’s online doctor uses the Apple Watch to enable people ...

A fitness landscape relates the genotype of an organism to its reproductive capacity and therefore has a central role in evolutionary biology. Introduced in the 1930s, the fitness landscape concept ...

About a decade ago, I talked with my niece and shared this conundrum: “How do you know that the red I see is the red you see?” To this day, I remember her reaction. Her eyes widened, and she said, ...

I am often asked by psychologists and other scientists if there is “empirical support” for the Tree of Knowledge System. My first response is: “Absolutely. Look around. Material objects behave in ...

Mike Sandiford receives funding from the Australian Research Council to investigate the thermal structure of the Australian crust. In an entertaining and somewhat chaotic episode of ABC’s Q&A (Monday ...