Nautis Project

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)

It's hard to believe that it has taken modern science 200 years to catch up to Lamarck. One of the common threads on Nautis Project has always been the incompleteness of a biological theory of evolution, morphology, and memory. It is these gaps in our knowledge that people like Lamarck, Darwin, Bergson, and Goethe tried [...]

Six Earths

One Minute Shift - We're Ready. This is the winning video from the Institute of Noetic Sciences 3rd YouTube contest. Produced by 13-year-old Shannon Leonard and his friends, this video expresses a heartfelt call from youth who are ready to make the change to living more sustainably. They pointedly ask if we’re ready to do [...]

Pale Blue Dot

Parapsychology and The Skeptics

Sheldrake has written the Forward for a new book, Parapsychology and The Skeptics, by Chris Carter (not the X-Files Chris Carter), on the history of dogmatic skepticism and parapsychology. The book opens with a very interesting anecdote from the seventeenth century - when people believed that balls of fire came hurtling to Earth from space [...]

Podcast: Can Dogs Know?

Great podcast from the website Skeptiko by Alex Tsakiris. Alex's guests are Dr. Rupert Sheldrake and Dr. Richard Wiseman on whether dogs can "know" when their owners are coming home. Take a listen.

The Need for Heretics

The radical, brilliant theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson has just written a interesting essay on the the need for heretics in science. Since Rupert Sheldrake has been battling this kind of stereotype for his entire career, it's interesting to see that being a maverick is somehow coming back in fashion. Almost daily I'm reading about "new" [...]

Photons Flout the Light Speed Limit

From the New Scientist magazine, "It's a speed record that is supposed to be impossible to break. Yet two physicists are now claiming they have propelled photons faster than the speed of light. This would be in direct violation of a key tenet of Einstein's special theory of relativity that states that nothing, under any [...]

Turtles Never Finish the Race

I was flipping through the latest New Scientist magazine last week when I stumbled across yet another article claiming that a final theory of everything was just around the corner. Each time I see one of these articles I'm reminded of the endless stream of biology and physics professors lined up for their chance to [...]

10 Unsolved Mysteries Of The Brain

From Discover Magazine: "Of all the objects in the universe, the human brain is the most complex: There are as many neurons in the brain as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. So it is no surprise that, "­despite the glow from recent advances in the science of the brain and mind, we [...]

Interesting Internet

Rise of man theory "out by 400,000 years" Our earliest ancestors gave up hunter-gathering and took to a settled life up to 400,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to controversial research. Science of the Soul? "I Think, Therefore I Am" Is Losing Force For many scientists, the evidence that moral reasoning is a result of physical traits [...]