Category archives: Humanities & Social Sciences

Markets for water

Markets for water

Economics

By José Luis Ferreira

This is the English version of a section in Ferreira (2014) , a paper dedicated to overview the experiments in Industrial Organization, to appear in Revista de Economía Industrial, and is reproduced here with the permission of the journal. The great majority of water collection and distribution in the world rely on a central authority […]

MI weekly selection #96

MI weekly selection #96

Humanities & Social SciencesScienceTechnologyWeekly Selection

By César Tomé

Ancient Antikythera wreckage holds treasure trove of artifacts Researchers excavating the 2,000-year-old wreckage of the Antikythera in Greece have found a treasure trove ancient goods. “The evidence shows this is the largest ancient shipwreck ever discovered,” said marine archaeologist Brendan Foley. The wreckage was discovered more than a century ago but the current excavation has […]

MI weekly selection #95

MI weekly selection #95

Humanities & Social SciencesScienceTechnologyWeekly Selection

By César Tomé

Giant lava plain on moon likely due to tectonic stretching, not impact The massive plain of solidified lava on the moon, known as Oceanus Procellarum, wasn’t caused by an asteroid impact as previously thought, according to a study published in Nature. Instead, researchers say, the volcanic basalt was formed by tectonic stretching, according to data […]

MI weekly selection #94

MI weekly selection #94

Humanities & Social SciencesScienceTechnologyWeekly Selection

By César Tomé

Amazon warriors’ names found on ancient Greek pottery Strange inscriptions on ancient Greek pottery appear to name Amazon warrior women, according to a study in Hesperia. Linguists deciphered the inscriptions on 12 vases dating from between 550 B.C. to 450 B.C. into phonetic sounds and sent them, without explanation, to McMaster University’s John Colarusso, an […]

Deconstructing intelligent design (1): On Dembski’s wrong “explanatory filter”

Deconstructing intelligent design (1): On Dembski’s wrong “explanatory filter”

Philosophy of science

By Jesús Zamora Bonilla

The most notorious argument presented in favour of the theory that asserts that living beings are necessarily the result of a conscious and deliberate act of intelligent creation, is William Dembski’s ‘explanatory filter’ (EF). According to this argument, when explaining anything, we have three alternatives: first, we shall try to explain it as the result […]